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Public TV painter Bob Ross appears in online video game
Ross is a skin for the “Smite” character Sylvanus, one of the game’s gods.WGBH finds authenticity, strong visuals boost response to Facebook Live fundraising
WGBH tested the platform in June and December 2016 by bringing viewers behind the scenes with live pledge segments of up to 30 minutes.“It’s a pay-it-forward mission” and other reasons why people work in public media
We collected these expressions of support for public media at the APTS Public Media Summit.
PBS test of social media fundraising raises little but teaches lessons
The pilot explored whether a social fundraising platform could enhance pledge by providing a new stream for “microtransactions.”NPR completes board expansion, Savage leaves WBAA and other comings and goings
Global banker Jeff Sine joins the NPR Board.A eulogy for Free Speech Radio News
“Its great editorial strength was always its emphasis on boots-on-the-ground reporting by people who really knew the textures of their communities.”
NPR to consolidate digital teams in Washington
NPR Digital Services will move from Boston to D.C. this fall.Maryland congressman aims to defund NPR, ITVS
"We could put an end to funding permanently through statute,” says Rep. Andy Harris (R-Md.). “And it’s probably time to do that.”PRX creates podcast playlists for guests of Cambridge hotel
The hotel also commissioned an episode of the podcast “The Memory Palace.”How President Johnson set the stage for passage of the Public Broadcasting Act
Only eight months after LBJ called on lawmakers to support his bill creating CPB, the measure passed Congress with overwhelming bipartisan support.‘The Pub’ #94: What the #$%^ does ‘narrative’ even mean?
“Only A Game” senior producer Karen Given tries to define the often misunderstood approach to reporting.Tom Karlo: We need public media now more than ever
Karlo began his career at KPBS in San Diego 44 years ago.NPR sports commentator Frank Deford signs off
Deford has delivered commentaries on NPR since 1980.University rejects Louisville Public Media bid for WNKU simulcaster
LPM had offered $3.5 million in cash and $1.5 million in other services.How NPR’s Research, Archives & Data Strategy team is saving sounds of the past for the future
NPR’s audio archive is not a history book, but history is “etched in the voices that gave these decades their vitality.”
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