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LinkAsia melds citizen journalism, official news for digital/broadcast presentation
LinkAsia, a weekly digital/broadcast hybrid news show from nonprofit Link TV, curates stories from citizen journalists as well as packages of official ...PBS NewsHour receives $3.55 million from four foundations
Four foundations are giving PBS NewsHour a total of $3.55 million for on-air and online coverage of the 2012 presidential election, the economy, international ...PBS tops 13 media organizations in engagement via Pinterest
An analysis from the Poynter Institute reveals that PBS and USA Today are the two media organizations that most effectively engage with readers via ...Transcript of Jason Seiken’s speech to PBS Annual Meeting now online
Now on current.org, text of the May 15 speech at the PBS Annual Meeting in Denver by Jason Seiken, head of PBS ...NCME and iMA sponsoring Public Media Innovators audio webinar on Wednesday
Here’s a look at “What ‹audio› means for public radio,” from Matthew Tift of Wisconsin Public Radio. Tift is on the panel ...NBC, noncom reporting relationships “still in infancy” but producing stories
The collaborations between several NBC owned-and-operated stations and nonprofit news enterprises, part of Comcast’s deal to takeover NBC-Universal (Current, Jan. 17), are generating ...WPR site will enable listeners to “see” Bach piece as it is performed
Wisconsin Public Radio has developed a website to accompany its upcoming broadcast of the “Open Goldberg Variations,” which is the “first fan-funded, ...Family of WRVO’s Chris Ulanowski publicly discusses his suicide
The family of Chris Ulanowski, the longtime news director of WRVO-FM in Oswego, N.Y., is speaking out about his suicide in a ...Sale approval delay by FCC hinders fundraising efforts at KUSF-FM
The FCC has yet to approve the sale of University of San Francisco’s KUSF-FM, which was announced 16 months ago, reports the ...Design adapts new KPCC website to multiple mobile devices
KPCC.org, the website for the Pasadena, Calif., pubradio station, has relaunched with a responsive web design that automatically adapts to viewing on ...Sesame Workshop lays off “approximately a dozen” staffers
Sesame Workshop, parent company of Sesame Street, has laid off around 12 people, the entertainment news website Deadline Hollywood is reporting. “So far the ...Groups ask PBS, WGBH to end sponsorship relationship with Chick-fil-A
Three high-profile organizations have announced a campaign to urge PBS and WGBH to drop the sponsor Chick-fil-A from the children’s show Martha Speaks. In ...WXXI news director hangs 300 feet in the air for “Audio Postcard”
Julie Philipp, news director at WXXI in Rochester, N.Y., got out from behind her desk last week — to dangle off the ...APM’s “Saint Paul Sunday” signing off in June after 32-year run
Broadcasts of Saint Paul Sunday, a weekly classical pubradio offering from American Public Media, are ending after 32 years. The last new episode was ...Romney again calls federal support of PBS “unnecessary,” suggests advertising
In an interview with Time magazine, Republican presidential hopeful Mitt Romney once again targets PBS for funding elimination. His comments echo previous statements ...
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