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HistoryMakers providing free “ScienceMakers” engagement toolkit
The HistoryMakers, a Chicago-based educational nonprofit that produces and archives personal stories of notable African-Americans, is offering free engagement toolkits as part ...Board dismisses Iowa Public Radio C.E.O. Mary Grace Herrington
The Iowa Public Radio Board of Directors on Monday terminated Mary Grace Herrington, its chief executive officer, reports the Gazette in Cedar Rapids. The ...ITVS, U.S. Institute of Peace to host Media that Moves Millions daylong summit
Independent Television Service (ITVS) and the United States Institute of Peace are partnering on the fourth Media as Global Diplomat leadership series, ...Bates to delay retirement in Nebraska; NET’s top fundraiser also departing
Rod Bates, general manager of NET in Nebraska, is postponing his March 31 retirement by three months to allow the search for ...CPB to honor Wise of Alliance for Excellent Education with its Thought Leader Award
CPB is presenting its Thought Leader Award tonight to former West Virginia Gov. Bob Wise, president of the Alliance for Excellent Education. ...Four bidders express interest in latest sale of KCSM-TV
Bidding has closed on the most recent round of offers in the sale of KCSM-TV, licensed to San Mateo Community College District ...Nielsen will expand its definition of TV ratings by start of fall 2013 season
The Nielsen Co., the stalwart television-ratings tracker, announced Feb. 20 that it plans to track viewing on additional devices beginning in September. ...Oscar-nominated POV filmmaker detained at airport
Palestinian documentary filmmaker Emad Burnat, whose Oscar-nominated film 5 Broken Cameras received funding from PBS’s POV, was detained Feb. 20 at Los Angeles International Airport after arriving in the ...Judge denies New York City’s request for outtakes from Ken Burns’s Central Park Five
More than five months after subpoenaing notes and outtakes from The Central Park Five, a crime documentary about the 1989 arrest and conviction of five ...Downton Abbey season finale nets 8.2 million viewers
The third-season finale of Downton Abbey drew 8.2 million viewers for its Feb. 17 PBS broadcast, the network and WGBH announced Feb. 19. The numbers come ...Current Reader Survey closes on Friday
Current has come a long way in the past two years, but we haven’t stopped thinking about how much more we’d like to ...MPT collects Super Bowl wager winnings from KQED
Maryland Public Television can thank the Baltimore Ravens this week for helping the station win a supply of sourdough breads and chocolate. The ...Frontline, California Watch receive Polk Awards
Frontline and the nonprofit investigative newsroom California Watch each won George Polk Awards, the prestigious journalism honors presented annually by Long Island University. ...Downton e.p. speaks out on PBS’s fall premiere schedule
Downton Abbey Executive Producer Gareth Neame tells Entertainment Weekly that PBS’s decision to delay the season opener of Masterpiece Classic hit from September, when it airs ...PBS timing for next Downton premiere draws attention
PBS’s pending decision on whether to air the next season of Downton Abbey on Masterpiece in the fall — when it runs in Great Britain ...
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