Quick Takes
Tuesday roundup: RadioLoveFest; Public Integrity’s Pulitzer; digital education doc series
Plus: FiveThirtyEight crunches the numbers on Bob Ross, and noncom radio stations are on the rise.Monday roundup: Questions about WGBH income; VPT legal fees
Plus: A Boston Marathon playlist, a professor accuses PBS of bias and Laura Poitras returns to the U.S.Marketplace Money out, Marketplace Weekend in at APM
American Public Media is replacing its weekend personal finance show Marketplace Money with Marketplace Weekend, beginning June 28.Friday roundup: Heartbleed poses danger for newsrooms; PRPD elects new chair
Plus: KCETLink has some laughs, the CBC cuts more than 600 jobs and WCRB searches for a sonic logo.House passes GOP budget zeroing CPB funding
The spending plan, the House GOP's blueprint for balancing the federal budget by 2024, now goes to the Democratic-controlled Senate, which is ...Thursday roundup: PBS promotes execs; Code Switch crowdsources poetry
• PBS has promoted two of its programming execs. Michael Kelley, formerly v.p. of strategy and business affairs, ascends to s.v.p., programming and ...POV expands digital operations with $250K from Knight
The grant will allow the PBS program to fund new projects and a digital technology fellowship.Wednesday roundup: Sesame Go app launches; Pacifica heads to court
Plus: CBC braces for huge losses, and the Fred Rogers Center honors Yo-Yo Ma.Tuesday roundup: AmGrad launches “Raise Up”; pubmedia fundraising earns middling grade
Plus: Amazon's set-top box includes PBS content, and OETA launches programs about Native tribes.Monday roundup: WDET screens doc featuring Radiolab host; Poynter chats with NPR’s Memmott
• Detroit’s WDET-FM staged the New York premiere Friday of The Pleasure of Sound, a documentary featuring Radiolab‘s Jad Abumrad. In the short film, shot in Detroit ...New Mexico News Port, other J-school collabs win grants from ONA challenge fund
A collaborative news hub in New Mexico, sea level monitoring project in south Florida and music visualization project in Texas are among ...Kansas pubcasters join forces in newsroom for regional collaboration
Kansas City pubcasters KCUR-FM and KCPT-TV announced Thursday that they will embark on a plan for their journalists to collaborate, starting with ...Friday roundup: Gender diversity on NewsHour; nonprofits win IRE Awards
• The Women’s Media Center, an advocacy group for women in media, has released a report about gender inequality in media. It found ...Thursday roundup: Pacifica names new interim head; Montagne evicted in Kabul
• The Pacifica Foundation announced the appointment of a new interim executive director, even as the one the foundation attempted to fire, ...Wednesday roundup: NPR ads respond to voices; Knight backs development efforts
• NPR introduced voice recognition–enabled ads this week on its smartphone app in an attempt to connect its nearly one million mobile ...