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CPB provides $1.9M to bolster editorial oversight at NPR
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The grant follows NPR’s earlier plan to create a “Backstop” team to review news reporting.
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The grant follows NPR’s earlier plan to create a “Backstop” team to review news reporting.
A $100,000 grant from Press Forward will help Radio Catskill in New York hire at least one additional reporter.
As the son of a commercial broadcaster, Michael Marcotte gained insight into the trappings and excesses of the ad-driven industry. Public broadcasting’s authenticity was refreshingly subversive, he writes.
Independent producer Sally Herships explains how she came to create a BBC documentary about the abrupt end of her marriage.
The funds will help stations get back on the air and maintain service after Hurricane Maria.
“Fighting for public broadcasting is like fighting for equal rights and equal opportunity for everybody and anybody in this world,” says an early leader in the field.
More than a dozen women have told the Washington Post and other news outlets that Rose sexually harassed them.
“I love the fact that as a journalist, I can get outside of my comfort zone and meet people who don’t look like me or sound like me.”
Should a journalist take to the mic to share a personal story? The short answer: Maybe.
Public media plays a critical role in helping young children understand and cope in an increasingly difficult world.
The site’s name, Unum, is taken from the U.S. motto “e pluribus unum” — from many, one.
“Kit has been a transformational leader in public media,” said Julie Adler Raskind, board chair for ideastream.