System/Policy
Talk through ‘gray areas,’ giving staff a moral compass
A manager in ethical hot water can be compared to a frog in a soup pot, says Carter McNamara. If you put ...Autonomy, mutual benefit seen by new N.Y. partners
Now they’re sister stations WNET WLIW Cume households* 3.1 mil. 2.1 mil. Annual spending $180 mil. $14 mil. Employees (approx.) 450 80** Members 350,000 < 50,000 *Nielsen cume audiences are for one week in November. **WLIW employees ...Strategic advantage: women as station leaders
There are 31 women general managers in public television. When this was reported to a gathering of women at the 2002 PBS ...PBS loses biggest underwriter as it considers 30-second credits
ExxonMobil will stop underwriting Masterpiece Theatre after spring 2004, the oil company announced Dec. 13. It has spent more than $250 million on MT and ...Zwerdling remains at NPR in new job; tensions still run high
NPR has promised veteran reporter Daniel Zwerdling another year of work, but colleagues are still asking what management’s decision to eliminate his ...NPR reporters challenge Zwerdling layoff
Zwerdling hopes his bosses will reverse their decision to end his job — and so do dozens of colleagues.NPR asks porn entrepreneur to drop KCRW from hold music
It was almost a landmark case: NPR vs. The World’s Most Downloaded Woman. The woman is Danni Ashe, a web-porn entrepreneur whom ...On the road with a circuit-riding Native American radio engineer
Lakota radio engineer Alex Lookingelk rides the highways of Wyoming, Montana and North and South Dakota, covering as many as 5,000 miles ...As local as appropriate
As different as they are, these public radio outposts share a carefully tuned appropriateness of structure. There’s the young two-transmitter operation on ...Friction and smoke at Whiteriver
The internecine warfare at KNNB, the public radio station on the White Mountain Apache reservation in east central Arizona, seems insignificant now, ...While rhetoric flows, WFUV and opponents seek alternative tower site
Fordham University’s WFUV-FM and its opponents across the street at the New York Botanical Garden have been quietly pursuing an alternative site ...Markey, Dodd will back trust fund for digital content
A bill introduced in the House May 2 brings the DOIT proposal for a trust fund supporting digital educational content one step ...House hearing loomed as CPB panel rushed to fix grant rules
As Congress threatened to convene a hearing on how CPB distributes its money, a public TV review panel released a proposal last ...Tower collapse takes engineer, pubcast signals
When terrorists brought down the World Trade Center in an imploding, crumbling crash, they not only destroyed New York City’s highest buildings ...Securing the union, pumping up the volume, bowling in a league
From the opening moments of its 2001 Annual Meeting in Philadelphia, PBS drew on the city’s role in U.S. history and a ...
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