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After rough start, Southern Education Desk relaunches with tighter focus
The Local Journalism Center brings together a new group of stations, buoyed by a third year of CPB support.On MSNBC, Ken Burns says Confederate flag is mired in racism, not heritage
Ken Burns, director of PBS's The Civil War documentary series, discussed the true roots of the controversial symbol.Kramer joins Current as advertising and marketing director
Kramer arrives from Cincinnati Educational Television, where he spent five years as corporate support representative.
Illinois radio station faces uncertain future after college announces shutdown
Kankakee Community College announced last week that WKCC-FM will go dark in December.House and Senate spending bills propose level support for CPB, but no interconnect funds
The bills include level funding of $445 million for CPB.‘The Pub’ #24: Cracker, Camper Van Beethoven frontman says NPR is standing against artists
The musician says public radio should get on what he sees as the right side of a matter of social justice.
Upcoming seasons of ‘Finding Your Roots’ at risk after PBS investigation
After an investigation, PBS is delaying Season 3 of Finding Your Roots and pulling from distribution an episode featuring Ben Affleck.House Appropriations Committee approves $445M for CPB
But PBS’s interconnection project lacks support so far.Stations moving to VHF should receive equal treatment in auction, pubcasters tell FCC officials
Public broadcasters met with FCC Chair Tom Wheeler and other commission officials Monday.KUSP still considering options, but sale no longer among them
The station is likely to air more music, but additional details are yet to be decided.Dugas to take helm in Wyoming, and other comings and goings in public media
And DeAnne Hamilton will leave WESA-FM in Pittsburgh July 17.How Hearken works with audiences to set the news agenda
"The whole idea starts with bringing the audience into the editorial process from the very moment of story creation."FCC declines to protect public TV in 2016 spectrum auction
In a ruling issued Friday, the FCC also denied a petition to protect TV translators, which many rural stations use.Five steps toward creating a true news network for public radio
We have more journalists than the New York Times, but are we having as much of an impact?AFI honors Stanley Nelson, public TV’s ‘filmmaker of black experience’
Though Nelson didn’t particularly take to that title.
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