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Who are the rising black talents in public media?
We need your help to identify up-and-coming talents whose names we don’t know yet and should.New Hampshire Public Radio goes to court in trademark dispute with ‘Outside’ owner
The owner of the outdoors-focused magazine had claimed that the name of an NHPR podcast amounts to infringement.Travel ban complicates VPR’s special coverage of refugee resettlement
Plans for the State Department to facilitate interviews fell apart while reporter Nina Keck was on the ground in Jordan.
NPR's Andrea de Leon to receive PRNDI's Leo C. Lee Award, and other awards in public media
Also, New Yorker writer Jelani Cobb will receive a Writers Guild award for his contributions to a “Frontline” documentary.Licensee sells Kentucky’s WNKU to religious broadcaster
The Bible Broadcasting Corp. will pay $1.9 million for the station.California station reaps $72M in spectrum auction proceeds
KRCB’s location was “considered prime real estate by mobile providers,” the station COO said.
Love trumps competition for married couple reporting for Fox News, NPR
With Myre’s move to a new position at NPR, he and his wife Jennifer Griffin are again competing on a beat.WGBH allegedly dismisses reporter after discovering views on vaccines
The Boston Globe says WGBH released the reporter after learning of “past statements linking vaccines and autism.”Pennsylvania’s WVIA announces channel-sharing agreement
The station will receive $25.9 million in auction proceeds.Lam steps to head of ‘Table’, Buckner leads Public Broadcasting Atlanta, and other comings and goings
Also, American Public Media hires a chief of on-demand and cultural programming.Spectrum auction nets nearly $35M for two Pennsylvania stations
WITF will share a channel, and WQED will move to a lower frequency.W.Va. governor proposes zeroing out of pubcasting funding
An elimination of funding could result in a severe downsizing at the network.Biopic of John Lewis to debut in PBS Black History Month lineup
PBS decided to schedule Kathleen Dowdey's documentary days before the congressman's fiery exchange with then President-elect Trump.Florida licensee gets $18.7M for WUSF-TV in spectrum auction
Tampa’s secondary PBS station will go dark later this year.Michigan licensee sells TV station for $14M in spectrum auction
WCMZ will go dark in about three months.
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