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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.
WEAA and WYPR tried to make the most of their limited staffs and resources.
The weekly hourlong show will be “built around The New Yorker’s award-winning writers, artists, and editors.”
NPR’s monthly podcast downloads increased 42 percent from 2013 to 2014, according to the study.
The station is taking a well-tested approach to developing new podcasts: asking its audience for ideas.
President Rob Dunlop said KCTS is “flipping the model” of the typical pubTV station by creating original digital content that will be broadcast later.
The projects “will bring vitally needed fresh perspectives and new voices to public media,” said the executive director of the National Black Programming Consortium.
After seven years of development, the archive of 2.5 million records of public radio and TV broadcasts is online.
Network execs determined that the episode failed to meet editorial standards.
Leaked emails to Sony Pictures executives discussed public media matters including Ira Glass’s contract, credit-card renewals and NPR’s CEO search.
Did one of public TV’s most revered figures really cede editorial control to a celebrity? It certainly looks that way to PBS ombudsman Michael Getler.