Quick Takes
Tuesday roundup: Pat Harrison dishes; ACL opens Hall of Fame
• CPB CEO Pat Harrison sat down with the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette Monday for an interview about her background in advance of a visit to WQED for ...Monday roundup: Alaska journalists raise concerns; Obama renominates CPB board member
• A lengthy Columbia Journalism Review feature focuses on a conflict over journalistic ethics at Anchorage-based Alaska Public Media. CFO Bernie Washington has been nominated to serve ...Friday roundup: WUGA cuts local programming; channel sharing is “feasible”
• WUGA-TV in Athens, Ga., is cutting all local programming from its schedule and eliminating six staff members as of June 30, the ...Thursday roundup: Pacifica standoff gets TV coverage, POV doc travels to Cuba
• The standoff at Pacifica’s headquarters in Berkeley, Calif., got coverage on a local news program on Oakland’s KTVU. Executive Director Summer Reese ...Wednesday roundup: Pew releases annual media report, advocacy group protests renewal of WGBH license
• NPR’s monthly listenership hit an eight-year high in 2013 with an average of 27.3 million listeners each month, according to the ...Monday roundup: TAL squelches PRX rumors; NPR Books boosts New Directions sales
• This American Life has yet to decide on a new distributor, contrary to Chicago media writer Bob Feder’s report over the weekend that ...NPR stream joins slate of content on Apple’s iTunes Radio
NPR announced Monday that it has landed the first news-provider slot on Apple’s iTunes Radio. iTunes Radio, which is integrated into Apple’s ...Thursday roundup: Ruiz gets Sundance fellowship, new Muppet helps kids stay clean
• Filmmaker Bernardo Ruiz (The Graduates/Los Graduados, Reportero) has received the Time Warner Fellowship from the Sundance Institute Documentary Film Program to work on his latest ...Wednesday roundup: Cutting locks at Pacifica; concerns about repacking interference
• A new round of unrest is brewing at Pacifica. Current reported last week on the radio network’s board voting to oust executive director Summer ...Monday roundup: CPB Board gets nominee; public TV funding rebounds
• President Obama has nominated Dr. Judith Davenport to serve as a CPB Board director, the White House announced Friday. Davenport, a ...Friday roundup: Today’s pubradio SXSW activities; a Mister Rogers ride gets revamped
A Pittsburgh-area theme park is swapping out Mister Rogers for Daniel Tiger.Wednesday roundup: Pubradio at SXSW Music, Frontline Vatican doc goes international
• The South By Southwest Music festival is underway in Austin, Texas, and public radio is providing an Internet gateway to the show. Beginning ...Monday roundup: WNYC gets $10 million, POV pairs with NYT, PRPD elects directors
• WNYC/New York Public Radio is receiving the largest grant ever given to a public radio station, it announced today. The pubcaster ...Thursday roundup: CPB presents education grants, CPI wins Goldsmith, Schiller talks Twitter news
• CPB has awarded multimedia journalism grants totaling more than $1.18 million to nine public media stations for education coverage aligning with ...Monday roundup: PIN expands, Link TV carries Wikileaks doc, Marfa station turns to Kickstarter
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