System/Policy
Salt Lake news station back in jeopardy
KCPW in Salt Lake City is less than two weeks from a loan default that could put it off the air. The new ...Gary Knell, Sesame Workshop c.e.o., hired as NPR president
Gary E. Knell, president and c.e.o. of Sesame Workshop for a decade, will start work Dec. 1 with the same titles at ...On the beat in Juárez, you listen with your gut
As a reporter for the multistation “local journalism center” Fronteras: The Changing America Desk, I am surrounded by borders. I live in ...Deals with schools give Rhode Island two new public radio signals
New England pubcasters are preparing for a major expansion of public radio services in Rhode Island through partnerships with schools that have ...PBSd venture and MHz project aim to export public television
Television viewers in Great Britain, the Middle East, Russia and India could soon be watching American public TV shows, if two initiatives ...Two news competitors in deficit, so one buys the other in Buffalo
Talks exploring a union between two major public broadcasters in western New York state will culminate with the $4 million sale of ...An oasis for the ears in Trans-Pecos
Five ways Marfa Public Radio is different from your nearest NPR-member station: 1. The drivetime host reports on rush-hour traffic of five vehicles, ...Puerto Rico’s WIPR: adiós to PBS
The latest station to leave PBS is a production powerhouse, but one not fully integrated into the nation’s English-dominated public TV system. Puerto ...NJN fundraising group will assist successor network affiliated with WNET
No hard feelings in evidence, the New Jersey Network’s nonprofit fundraising group said last week it will help raise production money for ...PBS dropping 21 staff positions, including veteran screeners
Thirteen current staff positions and eight vacant positions are being eliminated at PBS headquarters in Arlington, Va., and six “new or restructured” ...Puerto Rican station drops PBS shows
Puerto Rico’s government-controlled WIPR dropped its PBS membership on July 1 — the fourth member station to quit this year. Puerto Rico TV, ...Fed role: help ‘nonprofit news operations … gain traction”
The new report to the FCC about the state of the media and the future of American journalism estimates that filling gaps ...N.Y., Philly stations to pick up NJN’s pieces
For 40 years New Jersey has justified having its own public broadcasting network by pointing to the limited reporting on its area ...Cyberpirates to PBS: watch where you sail
Software vulnerabilities, including an outdated operating system used by PBS.org, allowed the pirate band of hackers LulzSec to sail deep into the ...‘Required’ station fees for web services are just a ‘proposal,’ says NPR Board chair
Plans to restructure NPR’s digital services to pubradio stations, in the works for months, have finally gotten down to specifics: what NPR ...
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