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Q selects a host, WGBH seats four trustees, and other comings and goings in public media
The daily culture program, distributed by PRI, fired host Jian Ghomeshi last fall after allegations of his sexual improprieties surfaced.Baltimore paper questions underwriting practices at WYPR-FM
A lengthy cover story in Baltimore's City Paper said the station fails to distinguish between underwriting and editorial content.INN changes name to Institute for Nonprofit News
To better reflect its mission, the Investigative News Network has changed its name to the Institute for Nonprofit News.
Diane Rehm will end right-to-die advocacy
After her husband's difficult death, Rehm helped raise funds for an organization that supports medically assisted suicide.Illinois nonprofit newsrooms bolster collaboration with new arrangement
Three nonprofit news organizations in Illinois are strengthening their agreements to share content, and two of the outfits will soon be under one roof.Public TV producer John Siceloff dies at 61; praised as 'great American journalist'
Siceloff helped create Now with Bill Moyers, and later founded an educational nonprofit.
New films remember video avant garde of the 1970s
Innovative filmmakers in New York City adopted portable gear and shook up the airwaves.NPR: 'There will be more Invisibilia episodes'
NPR's plan for Invisibilia expected to be shared with station managers in late April.NPR's Mohn points to early success with Spark initiative
NPR CEO Jarl Mohn said his "spark initiative" to boost Morning Edition's audience through repeated promotional messaging is already starting to show signs of success one month into its six month run.Weekly roundup: Infinite Dial, low-power FM, native advertising
And more links and news you might have missed this week.The Pub, Ep. 8: Public media’s true biases; reconsidering the membership model
On this week's podcast: Can "membership" in public media mean more than just money for tote bags?PodScanning: New podcasts take up issues of race and identity
Two new podcasts launch about issues of race at St. Louis Public Radio and Michigan Radio.Wild WTTW travel show relaunches with wider focus
With the program, Executive Producer Harvey Moshman and host Will Clinger aim to showcase what they call “quirky Americana.”Political fact-checking website finds first pubmedia partner in California
The first-of-its-kind partnership launches this summer.Dori Maynard, pioneer for diversity in journalism, dies at 56
Dori J. Maynard, a longtime champion for diverse perspectives in journalism, died Feb. 24 at her home in West Oakland, Calif., of complications from lung cancer. She was 56. Maynard joked that the J. of her middle name stood for “journalism.” Her father, Robert C. Maynard, was the first African-American to own a major U.S. newspaper, the Oakland Tribune. Her stepmother, Nancy Hicks Maynard, was the first African-American woman to report for the New York Times. Dori and Robert became the first father and daughter to be appointed Nieman Scholars at Harvard University — he in 1966, she in 1993.
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