System/Policy
Supervisor of Pacifica elections points to flaws in system
The elections supervisor for the boards of Pacifica’s five radio stations has recommended that the network revamp its process for selecting board ...Pacifica policy to keep enemies off boards draws ire
The Pacifica National Board passed a resolution barring individuals who have clashed with the network’s leadership from election to the boards of ...Delmarva Public Radio gets potential new lease on life from Salisbury University
Maryland’s Salisbury University is backing away from a consultant’s plan to farm out operations of its two Delmarva Public Radio stations. A proposal ...A growing push for data-driven documentary filmmaking
Wendy Levy, the director of arts consultancy group New Arts AXIS, called for documentary filmmakers to embrace big data tools as a ...WBEZ turns to matchmaking in ads aimed at younger listeners
Dubbed the “2032 Membership Drive,” the station’s newest citywide marketing blitz encourages young “interesting people” to “make babies” who will grow up ...New alliance in Mile High City
The latest merger agreement from Denver combines three different breeds of public media — flagship pubTV station Rocky Mountain PBS, community-licensed jazz ...West Virginia pubcasters hope for turnaround under new chief
When Scott Finn begins his new job as executive director of West Virginia Public Broadcasting Feb. 1, he faces an uphill task ...Second pubTV station pays fine for missteps handling federal grants
When the U.S. Attorney’s Office for Massachusetts announced a settlement with Boston’s WGBH over its handling of $60 million in federal grant ...GPB hires governor’s pick for plum job
When Georgia Gov. Nathan Deal recently approached Georgia Public Broadcasting’s top exec about appointing outgoing Senate Majority Leader Chip Rogers to lead ...Basic memberships: More trouble than they’re worth?
Basic memberships offered during pledge drives and in direct-mail appeals are a time-tested enticement for converting pubcasting viewers and listeners into contributors, ...WFYI chief honored for leadership in public TV
Lloyd Wright received the 2012 William Kobin Public Television Leadership Award from public TV’s Major Market Group. Wright has served as president ...In reshuffle of PBS executive ranks, Hoppe ascends to chief programmer
PBS has restructured its senior management, effective immediately, elevating programmer/producer Beth Hoppe to chief programming executive and general manager, according to a ...Deal resolves ownership of Ohio’s WYSO-FM as the college that built it revives
Two years after Antioch College reopened its campus in Yellow Springs, Ohio, it negotiated an $8 million deal to buy back WYSO, NPR News ...For-profit start-up accelerator aims to make public media ‘Matter’ to Silicon Valley
The start-up accelerator unveiled a year ago as an experiment in bringing Silicon Valley’s culture of innovation to public media has rebranded ...The ‘ongoing process’ of diversity
Public radio stations trying to diversify their audiences, staffs and programming have found an increasingly active ally in NPR, whose leaders have ...
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