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Four more stations join NPR’s Facebook geotargeting project
NPR Digital Services has added four stations to its Local Stories Project, in which participants submit stories to be included on NPR’s ...CNN correspondent O’Leary joins Marketplace
A day after a shakeup of senior management at Marketplace, American Public Media announced that CNN’s Lizzie O’Leary would be joining the public ...Pubcasters in Colorado join commercial stations for on-air wildfire relief fundraiser
Colorado public broadcasters are among stations uniting for a live on-air fundraiser Thursday for victims of recent destructive wildfires in the state. Denver ...PBS unveils plans for New York-based NewsHour Weekend
PBS President Paula Kerger today told pubTV execs that PBS NewsHour Weekend, a 30-minute broadcast on Saturdays and Sundays, will premiere Sept. 7 from ...Ford grant will support PRI’s immigration initiative
The Ford Foundation has awarded Public Radio International a two-year, $500,000 grant to support Global Nation, a project that will cover social-justice ...Four emergency requests from NewsHour bring $3 million from PBS to help pay bills
Executives from MacNeil/Lehrer Productions have asked PBS officials for “emergency $1 million infusions so they could pay the NewsHour bills” four times in ...WBGO president takes leave, citing health issue
WBGO-FM in Newark, N.J., announced Wednesday that station President Cephas Bowles will take a leave of absence for health reasons. In the ...Andrew Golis departing Frontline, bound for Atlantic
Andrew Golis, director of digital media/senior editor at Frontline, is leaving to join Atlantic Media, home to Atlantic magazine, as “entrepreneur in residence,” Golis ...Frontline teams up with Univision for investigative doc debut
For the first time, Frontline is sharing a film premiere with another American broadcaster, according to the New York Times. On June 25, PBS’s investigative ...WNET’s Sacred project to globally crowdsource religious topics for one year
WNET President Emeritus Bill Baker is spearheading a unique internationally crowdsourced public television project documenting a year of spiritual and religious life ...AU’s Center for Social Media releases fair use guidelines for journalists
The Center for Social Media at American University’s School of Communication has released a Set of Principles for Fair Use in Journalism, ...President’s fourth nominee to CPB Board is former WGBH newsman
President Barack Obama has nominated Howard Husock, a former producer, director and reporter at WGBH, to serve on the CPB Board of ...Martha Speaks author suing WGBH for portion of viewer contributions
Susan Meddaugh, the author and illustrator of the Martha Speaks books that inspired the popular PBS Kids show, is suing WGBH for ...CPB expands Ready to Learn with additional $110K to four projects
CPB announced today it will grant a total of $110,000 to four licensees for them to expand local outreach related to pubTV's ...Houston Public Media fires director of operations and communications head
The ongoing shakeup at Houston Public Media continues, with the termination of two more employees, reports Culture Map Houston. Gone are Debra ...
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