Reductions in tax-based support for pubcasting have shortened the financial gap between public television and radio stations, accelerating public TV’s decade-long financial decline and demonstrating resilience within segments of the public radio system.

Andrew Golis, director of digital media/senior editor at Frontline, is leaving to join Atlantic Media, home to Atlantic magazine, as “entrepreneur in residence,” Golis revealed on his blog. “Joining Atlantic Media is both a thrilling and deliberate step for me,” Golis writes. “As our news media has morphed and remade itself, I’ve become more and more convinced that the important fault line is not between left and right, or fact and opinion, but between those outlets that profit from opening their audiences’ minds and those outlets that profit from closing them.” Golis joined Frontline in March 2011. Previously he was founding editor of the Upshot blog network at Yahoo!

Finding long-term, sustainable funding remains a top concern of the country’s nonprofit news outlets, according to the results of a new study published Monday by the Pew Research Center.

For the first time, Frontline is sharing a film premiere with another American broadcaster, according to the New York Times. On June 25, PBS’s investigative news show will debut Rape in the Fields, and on the Spanish-language network Univision it will be titled  Violación de un Sueño (Violation of a Dream). Raney Aaronson-Rath, Frontline deputy executive director, called the Univision arrangement an “experiment” designed to bring in new viewers. PBS and Frontline are “not reaching as much of the Hispanic audience as Univision is reaching,” she noted. Each organization will stream the film online and cross-promote the documentary on the air.

Wes Moore, the host of Beyond Belief on OWN: Oprah Winfrey Network and author of the bestseller The Other Wes Moore, won CPB’s Thought Leader Award, which honors those who assist public media in the areas of education, journalism and the arts. A U.S. Army combat veteran who serves on the board of the Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans of America and as founder of STAND!, an organization that supports youth caught up in the criminal justice system, Moore also hosts the forthcoming PBS primetime series Coming Back, which chronicles the returns of nine veterans from conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan.

Republicans in Wisconsin’s state legislature are looking to bar the state’s public broadcasters and biggest university from contributing to an investigative-journalism center that they collaborate with, a move that would severely hinder the site’s newsgathering and educational capabilities.

WNET President Emeritus Bill Baker is spearheading a unique internationally crowdsourced public television project documenting a year of spiritual and religious life worldwide. The initiative, titled Sacred, launches June 21 and continues for one year, with contributors around the globe answering the question, “What is sacred to you?” To avoid favoring any one faith, the 2013 and 2014 summer solstices were chosen to begin and end the filming period. Footage shot during the 365 days will be the basis for a public television film set to premiere in 2015 at Radio City Music Hall in New York City and the Israel Museum in Jerusalem.

The Center for Social Media at American University’s School of Communication has released a Set of Principles for Fair Use in Journalism, which provides guidelines for journalists using copyrighted material in their reporting, analysis and criticism. “This guide identifies seven situations that represent the current consensus within the community of working journalists about acceptable practices for the fair use of copyrighted materials,” it says. “It identifies some common situations encountered by journalists, principles for the application of fair use in those situations, and the limitations that journalists recommend to define the zone of greatest comfort for employment of this right — all consistent with the development of the fair use doctrine in the courts.”

President Barack Obama has nominated Howard Husock, a former producer, director and reporter at WGBH, to serve on the CPB Board of Directors. Husock is currently vice president for policy research at the Manhattan Institute, a libertarian think tank, and directs its Social Entrepreneurship and Philanthropy Initiative. Husock also served as director of case studies in public policy and management at the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University. His tenure at WGBH, during which he won three Emmys and the Robert F. Kennedy Journalism Award, was from 1979-86. Husock is the president’s fourth CPB Board nominee.

A brewing legal fight initiated by Personal Audio, a Texas-based company that claims to have invented podcasting technology, has entered a new policy arena.

Susan Meddaugh, the author and illustrator of the Martha Speaks books that inspired the popular PBS Kids show, is suing WGBH for a portion of viewer contributions, the Boston Globe is reporting.

Boston’s news radio stations saw sharp increases in listening in the wake of the Boston Marathon bombings April 15, a finding highlighted by a new analysis of Arbitron Portable People Meter data by the Radio Research Consortium. Listening to public radio news stations WBUR and WGBH, as well as commercial WBZ, was higher than average throughout much of the week, peaking on April 19 — the day a manhunt for bombing suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev shut down the city. On that day, about 1 in 4 Boston residents tuned into one of the three stations, a 53 percent increase above the stations’ average combined cume for April.