The Center for Social Media at American University’s School of Communication has released a Set of Principles for Fair Use in Journalism, which provides guidelines for journalists using copyrighted material in their reporting, analysis and criticism. “This guide identifies seven situations that represent the current consensus within the community of working journalists about acceptable practices for the fair use of copyrighted materials,” it says. “It identifies some common situations encountered by journalists, principles for the application of fair use in those situations, and the limitations that journalists recommend to define the zone of greatest comfort for employment of this right — all consistent with the development of the fair use doctrine in the courts.”

President Barack Obama has nominated Howard Husock, a former producer, director and reporter at WGBH, to serve on the CPB Board of Directors. Husock is currently vice president for policy research at the Manhattan Institute, a libertarian think tank, and directs its Social Entrepreneurship and Philanthropy Initiative. Husock also served as director of case studies in public policy and management at the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University. His tenure at WGBH, during which he won three Emmys and the Robert F. Kennedy Journalism Award, was from 1979-86. Husock is the president’s fourth CPB Board nominee.

A brewing legal fight initiated by Personal Audio, a Texas-based company that claims to have invented podcasting technology, has entered a new policy arena.

Susan Meddaugh, the author and illustrator of the Martha Speaks books that inspired the popular PBS Kids show, is suing WGBH for a portion of viewer contributions, the Boston Globe is reporting.

Boston’s news radio stations saw sharp increases in listening in the wake of the Boston Marathon bombings April 15, a finding highlighted by a new analysis of Arbitron Portable People Meter data by the Radio Research Consortium. Listening to public radio news stations WBUR and WGBH, as well as commercial WBZ, was higher than average throughout much of the week, peaking on April 19 — the day a manhunt for bombing suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev shut down the city. On that day, about 1 in 4 Boston residents tuned into one of the three stations, a 53 percent increase above the stations’ average combined cume for April.

CPB announced today it will grant a total of $110,000 to four licensees for them to expand local outreach related to pubTV's Ready to Learn early-childhood education initiative.

In a citation honoring Maine Public TV’s Kelly Luoma as the Charles Impaglia Programmer of the Year, PTPA lauded her “for tirelessly advocating for the audience and the programming community within public television, even when it is not politically correct . . . [and for] the singular achievement of increasing a station’s viewership every year since the digital transition, while the system has shown whole week and primetime declines.” In another award presented during last month’s PTPA meeting in Miami Beach, Fla., Kentucky Educational Television’s Craig Cornwell was lauded for achievements in local scheduling. TRAC Media Services, which manages PTPA, cited Cornwell “for ensuring that local productions always get prime placement, for understanding a market where Best of the Joy of Painting often equals the Antiques Roadshow repeat on Saturday .

The ongoing shakeup at Houston Public Media continues, with the termination of two more employees, reports Culture Map Houston. Gone are Debra Fraser, director of operations and stations manager, who joined KUHF in 1988 and had also served as news director, reporter and  local host of All Things Considered; and Emily Binetti, director of communications, who has been with the station since 2006. “Houston Public Media began a major restructuring of its personnel and operations in October 2011,” Richard Bonnin, University of Houston’s marketing and communications interim associate vice president, told Culture Map Houston. “Today’s action, in which the positions of two employees were eliminated, is a continuation of that restructuring initiative to position Houston Public Media for the future.”

Ron Weaver, a former operations director and producer for Children’s Television Workshop who played an instrumental role in creating some of the production house’s most iconic programs, died May 15 in Los Angeles. He was 75.

Haynes Johnson, a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist who was an original panel member on pubTV’s Washington Week in Review, died May 24 in Bethesda from a heart attack. He was 81.

Andrea Seabrook, former Congressional correspondent for NPR, will be honored by the White House today as a "Crowdfunding Champion of Change."

PBS has honored its former chair Alberto Ibargüen for his contributions to civic engagement. Ibargüen, c.e.o. of the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation and former PBS Board chair, received the PBS “Be More” Award celebrating individuals in pubTV who embody the spirit of helping Americans discover more, experience more and “be more.” The former publisher of the Miami Herald and El Nuevo Herald leads Knight Foundation efforts to promote quality journalism, advance media innovation, engage communities and foster the arts. “PBS applauds his commitment to informed and engaged communities, integrity and independence in journalism, and helping people reach their highest potential by ensuring that everyone has access to information that helps them understand more and be more,” said PBS President Paula Kerger.

As public television’s chief program exec and top producers unveiled highlights of the fall 2013 primetime schedule at the PBS Annual Meeting May 13–16 in Miami Beach, Fla., the network also signaled its willingness to invest in genres with track records of building viewership and differentiating public TV from its cable competitors. PBS paired with BBC Worldwide to acquire Last Tango in Halifax, a hit contemporary British drama starring Derek Jacobi and Anne Reid as childhood sweethearts who reunite after 60 years apart. Call the Midwife, a drama that PBS chief programmer Beth Hoppe bought to boost Sunday-night viewership in fall 2012, will return for a third season in 2014.