System/Policy
CPB awards $2.65M for state government coverage
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The grants will benefit stations in seven states.
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The grants will benefit stations in seven states.
“Southwest Florida in Focus,” a half-hour of TV news for Fort Myers and beyond, launched as a cost-effective model for producing local coverage.
The two stations will maintain independence.
DuBose produced or directed more than 60 national programs that aired on PBS.
The show’s reporters will contribute to other NPR programs as well.
“There should be an element of suspense. There should be a thing that’s kind of hanging that we’re hoping either succeeds or fails.”
Gwen Ifill died Monday after several months of cancer treatment, according to WETA President Sharon Rockefeller.
The Gold Award went to “Mariya,” a personal narrative by writer Mariya Karimjee from Radiotopia podcast The Heart.
“How can we do the job of reporting truth without being dismissed as polemicists?” asked moderator Bob Garfield.
Speaking in the aftermath of the election, Rehm urged public radio to listen “better and harder to those to whom we have never listened before.”
Jones had been diagnosed with lung cancer in May.
Also, public TV executive Dick Pryor takes over as g.m. of KGOU in Norman, Okla., Monday.