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WWOZ staffers share concerns about station’s priorities
Staffers fear the station is "losing touch with the gritty hyper-locality that gave WWOZ its cachet."Peggy Girshman, journalist and former NPR editor, dies at 61
Girshman also worked for PBS and developed a partnership between NPR and Kaiser Health News.WNED and LeVar Burton's RRKidz trade lawsuits over ‘Reading Rainbow’ licensing
WNED claims that RRKidz is “illicitly and methodically” attempting to take over ownership of the Reading Rainbow brand.
Gaming site Twitch to stream Julia Child marathon
201 episodes, four days.A critic sees “pro-government” bias in NPR’s reporting, not a leftward lean
Host and freelancer Lisa Simeone dismisses the claim that public media betrays a liberal bias.How television shaped Paula Kerger’s American dream
“Television ... provided a lifeline to a bigger world.”
James Taszarek, ‘godfather of public radio underwriting,’ dies at 73
Taszarek helped change how stations approach selling underwriting.Promotional strategy for ‘Black Panthers’ pays off for PBS
The filmmakers’ strategy for engaging an audience was in the works for more than a year.Longtime public radio GM Ben Fry dies at 54
Fry had worked at KUAR and KLRE since 1988.NPR newscasts, sliced, diced and scrambled three ways
An engineer turned six years of newscasts into engaging art projects.KETC pays reduced fines to CPB for budgeting errors, other violations
“Nine Network’s failure to comply was not nearly as egregious as it would appear in the initial report.”Does public media need more conservative voices?
Maybe, but a right-leaning public radio journalist says finding them is tricky.NPR podcast ‘Embedded’ to launch March 31
Kelly McEvers, co-host of All Things Considered, will host the new podcast.‘Mercy Street’ to return to PBS lineup for second season
The second season will bring viewers “closer to the fight and into the halls of Confederate power.”It’s a veddy big and happy farewell for ‘Downton Abbey’
Some 9.6 million viewers tuned in for Sunday night’s last episode.
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