Quick Takes

  • WGBH is negotiating with Boston city authorities for permission to cover part of its new headquarters with a”digital skin” of electronic images ...
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    February 5, 2004

  • Billy Tauzin, the Louisiana congressman who oversees broadcasting and CPB as House Commerce chairman, announced his retirement from the committee effective Feb. ...
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    February 5, 2004

  • The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation gave the Public Radio Exchange a $350,000 grant.
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    February 3, 2004

  • GuideStar, the data source about nonprofits, lists numerous Internet mailing lists (listservs) and newsgroups about charities and fundraising.
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    February 3, 2004

  • The Bush administration proposes to crack down on taxpayers’ valuations of cars donated to charities and other non-cash gifts, but will also ...
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    February 3, 2004

  • “An election this week will determine whether a generation of young people in this region will grow up hearing America’s most important ...
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    February 3, 2004

  • In its FY05 budget, the Bush White House again chose not to propose an advance appropriation for CPB [PDF file], leaving ...
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    February 3, 2004

  • The g.m. of Antioch University’s WYSO in Yellow Springs, Ohio, Steve Spencer, resigned Friday, the Dayton Daily News reported. The bitter battle between Spencer ...
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    February 1, 2004

  • “I love the BBC and I am resigning because I want to protect it.” Andrew Gilligan, the journalist whose reporting sparked a ...
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    January 30, 2004

  • “And now the second invasion of the Iraq war proceeds: the conquest of the British Broadcasting Corporation.” Investigative journalist Greg Palast writes ...
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    January 30, 2004

  • WGBH has added Sesame Street to the portfolio of children’s programs it reps for national underwriting. WGBH’s Sponsorship Group for Public Television also seeks ...
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    January 30, 2004

  • Anne Wood, creator of Teletubbies and now Boohbah always chooses “to go with the mind of a child and what the child needs” says ...
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    January 30, 2004

  • As the crisis over the BBC deepened today, General Director Greg Dyke resigned. “I’ve sadly come to the conclusion that it will ...
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    January 29, 2004

  • A senior British judge criticized the BBC for its controversial report alleging that Prime Minister Tony Blair’s government “sexed up” its intelligence ...
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    January 28, 2004

  • NPR’s Nina Totenberg and her counterpart at the New York Times, Linda Greenhouse, were given exclusive early access to the papers of the late ...
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    January 27, 2004