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Better programming would fix Pacifica, argues journalist
A journalist and former employee of a Pacifica station diagnoses the network’s failure to attract listeners in an article in the Leftist ...Mobile donors want to contribute even more, survey of 20,000 reveals
Nearly 85 percent of donors using mobile devices would like to be able to contribute more money using apps, according to a ...WBUR cites marathon reporting in endorsement of looser FCC indecency standards
Boston's WBUR joined NPR and other news outlets in advocating for more leniency when it comes to indecency standards, citing its reporting ...iHeartRadio, personalized service from Clear Channel, picks up APM content
American Public Media content is now available on iHeartRadio, Clear Channel’s customizable digital radio service with more than 1,500 live stations playing ...Mr. Selfridge is back in business for second season on Masterpiece
Masterpiece announced today that Mr. Selfridge will return for a second season. The drama, starring Jeremy Piven as the American entrepreneur who founded Selfridge’s department ...WLRN in Miami promotes Zuckerman to interim news director
Alicia Zuckerman, senior editor for enterprise reporting at WLRN, will fill in as interim news director while the Miami pubcaster searches for ...PBS scores 25 Emmy nominations for primetime programming
Primetime Emmy nominations are out this morning, and PBS scored 25 nods from the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences — 12 ...BuzzFeed assembles ‘The 22 All-Time Hottest Hunks Of PBS’
What?! No Doc Martin?!After teasing Carmen Sandiego fans, PBS says there are ‘no plans’ to bring show back
"There are no plans for Carmen Sandiego to return to PBS’s schedule," the network told Current, after teasing fans with a Tumblr ...Zimmerman verdict protesters damage windows at Youth Radio in Oakland, Calif.
Youth Radio, the Oakland, Calif.-based nonprofit that trains young people in media production, sustained shattered windows during local unrest on Monday following ...CPB will fund new Local Journalism Centers
CPB plans to fund two additional Local Journalism Centers, according to a Nieman Lab article reviewing lessons that journalists have learned from ...Rejected by ITVS, Citizen Koch rakes in Kickstarter dough
Citizen Koch, a documentary about the growing influence of money in politics that lost a pot of planned public TV funding in ...Maine pubcaster ponders future of classical music after host’s departure
Maine Public Broadcasting is rethinking its approach to classical music, with the upcoming departure of a radio host and a strategic plan ...Ready to Compete Act introduced in House to reauthorize Ready to Learn
Rep. John Yarmuth, D-Ky., today introduced his Ready to Compete Act to the U.S. House of Representatives.Grech ousted as WLRN news chief
Dan Grech was dismissed as news director for the reporting partnership between the Miami Herald and WLRN-FM on Monday. WLRN General Manager John Labonia ...
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