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PRI, PRX merge to form new organization
PRX's Kerri Hoffman will run the new organization, while PRI's Alisa Miller will move into a board leadership role.Applications open for scholarship honoring filmmaker Jacquie Jones
Grants will pay tribute to the Peabody Award–winner who died in January at age 52.FCC’s proposed update to EBS rules prompts comments from public media
Some 50 public broadcasters hold licenses to use spectrum in the 2.5 GHz band for educational services and other purposes.
Judge rules against Rhode Island PBS in dispute with engineers' union
The ruling found RIPBS had violated labor law by refusing to recognize IBEW's representation.NPR catches longtime freelancer recycling audio in newscast spots
Danielle Karson has reported for NPR since the 1980s.Schardt leaves AIR, WNET selects 'Amanpour' team and other comings and goings
Luis Perez, vice chair of the AIR Board, will oversee operations until a successor is hired.
APT contest will award production funds for new pledge shows
APT hopes to present the winners of the APT PitchFest to client stations in fall 2019 or spring 2020.ProPublica expands reporting network to increase coverage of state governments
The investigative news nonprofit is expanding the network after partnering with an initial group of seven newsrooms that included WMFE in Orlando, Fla.WGBH gets $750,000 for digital work in latest grants from NEH
For the first time, the endowment is providing infrastructure and capacity-building challenge grants.Volunteer host injured in shooting at Wisconsin's WORT
Police have said “indications are this is a targeted act against specific person(s).”NYPR agrees to include temporary, per diem employees in union
The workers will join a unit of employees that has been represented by SAG-AFTRA since 2000.UGA project will preserve decades of local pubmedia programs entered in Peabody Awards
Archivists are partnering with the American Archive of Public Broadcasting for a two-year project preserving 4,000 submissions.Letter to the editor: Reading services provide a lifeline to public radio's most vulnerable listeners
Station managers are making faulty presumptions about technology adoption among seniors who are blind or visually impaired.NPR boosts Littleton to comms VP, KLRU appoints COO, and more comings and goings
Emily Littleton has worked in communications at NPR for more than 20 years.Noncom Triple A stations should lead way on gender balance in playlists and workplaces
"This view that public radio stations are beyond dealing with gender bias may be feeding a lack of awareness" about inequalities, argues a former Triple A PD.
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