Getty Images, one of the world’s largest creators and distributors of still images, footage and multimedia, is now offering WGBH Educational Foundation’s extensive library of high-def footage, it announced yesterday. Included are series such as Nova, Frontline and American Experience, as well as limited runs. The agreement gives producers, filmmakers, corporate and entertainment clients access to the offerings. Check out WGBH’s footage here.

The National Telecommunications and Information Administration has set Feb. 4 as the application deadline for most grant applications for the fiscal year 2010 round. (Federal Register notice.) An exception: Feb. 26 is the deadline for new noncommercial FM station projects filed in the FCC’s weeklong application window that closes the same day (see item above). The agency’s PTFP staff will hold webinars for applicants in coming weeks. NTIA staffer Walter Sheppard is seeking station executives to review applications—who aren’t applying for grants this year. wsheppard@ntia.doc.gov.

As the Federal Trade Commission convened its two-day workshop on how journalism can survive and thrive during the shift to web-based media distribution, Future of Public Media project Director Jessica Clark called for policymakers to look beyond proposals to provide the taxpayer support needed for public broadcasting to expand its role in journalism. “[S]erious policy proposals need to go further,” Clark writes for PBS’s MediaShift blog. “Simply producing additional news doesn’t address the demand side of the issue.” Clark calls for policy changes promoting public engagement with media. “This means more than just handing out yet another serving of information to a surfeited audience; it’s about engaging users at every phase–planning, funding, production, distribution, conversation, curation, and mobilization–to make sure that all stakeholders’ voices are included.”

Pacifica Radio’s new executive director, effective tomorrow, is Arlene Engelhardt, a programmer and former board president at affiliate station WMNF in Tampa. She was appointed by the Pacifica Foundation’s national board last week, succeeding Grace Aaron, the board chair who has served as interim director since January. The top staff position has been open since the resignation of Nicole Sawaya in September 2008. Engelhardt is co-host of Women’s Show, “an eclectic feminist/womanist radio magazine” on the Tampa community radio station. She has been a peace activist, an executive with United Cerebral Palsy and a v.p. of product development for a multimedia publishing company, according to Pacifica.

ITVS and PBS are offering more than 20 indie films via iTunes, according to ITVS. The initiative is part of the Independent Digital Distribution Lab, which kicked off in April to expand broadband distribution and explore revenue-generating partnerships for independent filmmakers and pubTV. Featured are films from Independent Lens, Global Voices and other series and broadcasts.

The webcast has begun for the FTC’s workshop, “How Will Journalism Survive the Internet Age?” Participating pubcasters include Joaquin Alvarado, CPB’s senior veep for diversity and innovation; NPR head Vivian Schiller; Jon McTaggart, senior veep and COO, American Public Media; Alisa Miller, president and CEO, Public Radio International; and Jason Seiken, senior veep, PBS Interactive. The workshop continues tomorrow.

The Public Radio Satellite System is marking its 30th anniversary, it announced today. PRSS launched in 1979, and was the first to use satellite technology to develop a national distribution network for radio. Back then, PRSS sent out programming to 192 public radio stations; now it transmits nearly 400,000 hours of programming annually from more than 200 producers to more than 800 public radio stations. Last month it launched the Technology Research Center with NPR Labs to provide research, consulting, and testing capabilities for pubradio stations, other networks and producers. It will also market its consulting services to commercial clients.

Nightly Business Report has decided on a co-anchor to work with Susie Gharib, the show announced today. Tom Hudson was formerly in that slot at the nationally syndicated First Business program. Hudson replaces longtime anchor Paul Kangas, who announced his retirement in May. Hudson, already working with the show, makes his on-air debut on Wednesday, and comes on as co-anchor Jan. 4.

Harvard University history prof Niall C. Ferguson has won an International Emmy Award for his documentary series, The Ascent of Money, which aired on PBS in July 2009, reports the Harvard Crimson. The series examined the history of money, credit and banking, going back as far as ancient Babylon. It was based on his course, “International Financial History, 1700 to Present,” which he last taught at the college in 2007.

PBS and the NewsHour today announced a partnership with Boston-based GlobalPost to make use of its international correspondents for “timely on-the-ground information about breaking news developments” for both broadcast and online audiences, according to a statement posted on Jim Romenesko’s media blog on the Poynter Institute’s website. The effort will supplement the NewsHour’s current international reporting, the statement noted. GlobalPost correspondents and videographers will produce weekly video segments for NewsHour and the show’s web site; GlobalPost and NewsHour staffs will collaborate on story selection and production. GlobalPost has some 70 reporters in more than 50 countries, and already is partnered with WorldFocus as well as many print publications.

Ruth Reichl, host of PBS’s Gourmet’s Adventures With Ruth, opens her refrigerator and pantry to Salon.com for a peek at what one of America’s most respected foodies noshes on. A few goodies: Arkansas black and Knobbed Russet apples, three kinds of butter, frozen banana leaves, strawberry elderflower jam, lacinato kale and “gallons of turkey stock.” You know, the usual.

WGBH will broadcast some television programming on the radio starting Tuesday, the Boston Globe reports. It’s part of the station’s move to transform 89.7-FM into a viable competitor for news powerhouse WBUR’s 90.9-FM. The station will use existing shows such as the NewsHour and local Beat the Press, as well as create a new midday weekday public affairs show. The moves are part of WGBH’s purchase in September of classical music station WCRB-FM 99.5 for $14 million, which allowed WGBH to shift classical programming and convert 89.7 to an all news and talk station.

Kids can now journal on their iPhones thanks to a new app, Make a Journal, from the ever-creative Mister Rogers folks. The $1.99 app, available via iTunes, is a “delight,” according to the iPhone Footprint blog. Kids get five topic suggestions: School, Mad Feelings, Playtime, Pretending, and Books. They can save their personalized journals in a digital library and use virtual crayons and designs to draw a cover for each journal to make it easy to find later.

On Tuesday night, Sherri Westin, e.v.p. of Sesame Workshop, hit the O’Reilly Factor with host Bill O’Reilly on Fox to discuss the ongoing “Pox News” controversy. Appearing with her: Spill O’Reilly, an in-your-face, over-the-top, book-hawking Muppet. Check out the video.

Several pubcasters are part of the 200 largest charities in America in Forbes magazine’s annual list. Figures are for end of fiscal 2008, comparisons are with end of fiscal ’07. Calculations include charitable commitment, fundraising efficiency and donor dependency. PBS scores quite high in fundraising efficiency; it’s seventh on the list. Its $356 million in assets, however, is down 7 percent. WGBH Educational Foundation, with net assets of $357 million, has a surplus of $40 million. Northern California Public Broadcasting scores low in charitable commitment, a calculation of total expenses that went directly to its charitable purpose as opposed to management, certain overhead and fundraising; it scored 63 percent in that category.