Quick Takes
Thursday roundup: Slate plans for Pesca, Oxford burns PBS, ProPublica sells data
Two NPR alums are gunning for the afternoon listening sweet spot.Wednesday roundup: more on AmGrad money; former NPR journos prep WWI doc
A big education initiative for low-income families comes into sharper focus.Tuesday roundup: Dingell to retire, PBS vs. NPR in March Madness, #SheDocs returns
• U.S. Rep. John Dingell, who helped sign the 1967 Public Broadcasting Act into law and remained a staunch supporter of pubcasting, ...Monday roundup: WTTW names center for trustee, 2-Toy rolls on, Matter sets Demo Day
• WTTW announced a major gift Monday from the family of Renée Crown, board vice chair of licensee Window to the World ...Friday roundup: indies protest to WETA; schools to use WGBH shows
And the produce market gets a deal on Sesame Street's brand.Thursday roundup: WQED cuts back, Dunlop leads KCTS
More threats to classical radio.Wednesday roundup: lessons from Pension Peril; honey badgers on Nature
Maybe honey badgers do care?Tuesday roundup: a pubradio brew; WGBH show goes national
• Minnesota Public Radio’s music station The Current will get its brand on a local craft beer this summer. The station is partnering with ...Monday roundup: Polk goes to Frontline, CPB ombud calls for transparency in grant dustup
• Frontline today won a George Polk Award for “League of Denial,” its investigation of the NFL’s efforts to downplay evidence linking head injuries of ...Kickstarter hacked; users advised to change passwords
Hackers breached the crowdfunding website Kickstarter Feb. 12 and made off with user data including passwords and email addresses, the company announced ...Friday roundup: This American Doodle, troubles at KCETLink
• Nothing spells love quite like This American Life. For a Valentine’s Day Doodle, Google has enlisted the Public Radio International program to present five ...WNET responds to report on funding for pension series
New York’s WNET issued a statement responding to a PandoDaily article that scrutinized funding for its topical reporting series, The Pension Peril. In the article, published ...Thursday roundup: Flappy Bert takes to the air, WAMU host skis to work
• Less than a week after the maker of the wildly popular mobile game Flappy Bird announced he would pull the plug on his creation, Sesame ...PBS names Betsy Gerdeman senior VP of development
Betsy Gerdeman, former senior v.p. of development at KLRU-TV in Austin, Texas, has been named PBS’s senior v.p. of development services. She ...APTS chief rebuts FCC chairman on technical limits of channel-sharing
In an exchange with FCC Chairman Tom Wheeler, public television’s top lobbyist sought to dial back expectations for channel-sharing pilot tests involving ...
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