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CPB backs four more station collaborations on topical reporting
CPB continues to foster news collaborations, with more than $1.2 million in grants announced Tuesday.Andrew Patner, arts critic for Chicago's WFMT, dies at 55
Patner was a longtime critic-at-large for WFMT in Chicago and host of the station's show Critical Thinking.New Regional Journalism Centers will feed national public media news programs
CPB will establish regional journalism hubs to strengthen news services in their areas and to deliver more locally produced segments to public media’s national programs.
Serial subject granted appeal
Adnan Syed, the subject of the podcast, has a chance to overturn his life sentence for the alleged murder of his ex-girlfriend.WHYY awarded grant to archive 38 years of Fresh Air
Around 8,000 episodes of Fresh Air will be made available to the public in 2016.Q&A: Mohn leads NPR into ‘golden age of spoken word’
An in-depth talk with NPR's president about program strategy, his Spark initiative, NPR's digital future and more.
The first of our new improved weekly roundups — now with more content
This week: the Congressional Downtown Abbey office, new conferences, digital wisdom and more.After backlash, board at Pa. pubcaster buys out exec’s contract
News of the former CEO's compensation had spurred donors to withhold renewals.Calif. pubcasters take home Golden Mikes, and more awards in public media
Public radio stations KCLU in Thousand Oaks and Southern California Public Radio in Pasadena took home both awards for best use of sound in addition to several accolades for reporting.WNYC plans new podcasts in push to build on successes
Indies aren’t the only public radio producers to recognize that there's gold in them there podcast hills.The Pub, Episode 4: How women, people of color, and everyone else can sound more like themselves on the radio
We explore the origins, biases and limitations of the "public radio voice."St. Louis Public Radio mulls response to subpoena
St. Louis Public Radio received a subpoena Jan. 29 from the St. Louis circuit attorney for “all raw and aired video and audio footage” from a local meeting it reported on that turned chaotic. The radio station was reporting on a Jan. 28 “packed hearing” of the Public Safety Committee of the St. Louis Board of Aldermen about a proposed civilian review board for the St. Louis Metropolitan Police Department. The hearing “erupted . . . into a scuffle between supporters of the bill and its police opponents,” according to the station’s coverage. No arrests were made at the time, but an investigation about the incident is underway.CPB grants fund expansion of video journalism at regional centers
CPB is bolstering its financial support of five regional Local Journalism Collaborations to add video reporting units.Firelight Media receives MacArthur grant for reserves, innovation fund
Firelight Media, based in New York, gets $500,000 to expand its reserves and establish an innovation fund to experiment with digital storytelling platforms.Spectrum auction issues dominate CPB Board meeting
CPB is aware of as many as six public television stations considering going off the air, said Michael Levy, e.v.p., during the meeting, which was held by phone.
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