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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.
The podcast will produce 10 episodes to premiere next year.
KETO will broadcast in a variety of languages, aiming to help newcomers assimilate to life in their new country.
Development is in early stages for the project, which will involve community radio stations in the region.
Stations will face a 39-month deadline to complete the technically complex work, which could pose challenges for government licensees that must go through lengthy procurement processes.
A journalist argues that newspapers should seek to emulate the funding model already supporting public media.
Current and the Public Media Futures Forums are joining forces on a new project, Local That Works.
The council will consider the new guidelines in December and begin accepting applications for grants in 2017.
ProPublica will adopt the foundation’s federal legislative tools.
Weatherly was active in public media for more than 36 years.
“This film series just tries to give people a window into what their life is like and how this important law has changed their lives and contributed more to our society.”