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Nine pubcasters receive $100,000 Press Forward grants
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The funding initiative awarded a total of $20 million to 205 news outlets.
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The funding initiative awarded a total of $20 million to 205 news outlets.
The June through August 2024 period was, at best, sluggish for station fundraising across several key performance indicators compared to the same period in 2023.
“The reporting I have been doing for the last five years involves interviewing people who are armed and oftentimes very not happy with the mainstream media, not happy with me,” ProPublica’s A.C. Thompson told TV critics.
The funds support the consolidation and upgrade of the station’s headquarters and production studios in Northern Virginia.
“We get to learn from our guests as much as listeners do.”
“This is an important step to grow and strengthen local journalism in Chicago,” said CPM CEO Matt Moog.
“I think the most important aspect of all the conversations, particularly with diverse filmmakers, over this last year has been for us to listen and try to understand where there are barriers and how we can bring more work forward, how we can better support filmmakers no matter what stage of their professional career they are in,” said PBS President Paula Kerger.
The new handbook will go beyond NPR’s existing ethics guide to focus on station-specific issues, such as editorial independence from university and school district licensees.
Salvador Perez has worked as a senior producer and director for Sesame Workshop.
“KQED is one of the biggest public media organizations in the U.S., and we understand that there are a lot of folks who have eyes on it as viewers or listeners or people who observe the work that we’re doing. How do we create a sense of place with these audiences to engage with them and become more relevant to their needs?”
In an excerpt from her book “Listen Wise: Teach Students to Be Better Listeners,” Monica Brady-Myerov recalls the “lightbulb moment” that led her to launch the digital education platform Listenwise.
The complaint echoes another discrimination suit against the network.