Nightly Business Report today (Nov. 4) announced a new weekly feature, “Beyond the $coreboard,” that “gives viewers in-depth analysis of the biggest sports stories of the day and what they mean for Wall Street.” NBR is partnering with Rick Horrow, author of “Beyond the Box Score: An Insider’s Guide to the $750 Billion Business of Sports” and is a visiting expert on sports law at Harvard Law School. His Miama-based Horrow Sports Ventures is a facility development advisor to teams, leagues, universities, government agencies, and nonprofits. Horrow has been a contributor to NBR since the 1980s, the announcement said. CLARIFICATION: A spokeswoman for Harvard Law School said Horrow last participated in the Sports Law program at the university in 2006, and is not currently active there.

Just as some election officials continue to count midterm ballots from Tuesday’s (Nov. 2) vote, PBS NewsHour is tallying up web visitors for its ambitious all-evening coverage. Anne Bell, spokesperson for the show, said dozens of sites (that they know of) either embedded or linked to the show’s live stream — everything from the Small Dead Animals blog to the leftie Huffington Post, the conservative Breitbart.tv, the Black Sistas, Latino Perspectives, LA Observed and Eastern Iowa Government. Sixteen pubstations also participated. The site page featured live coverage with anchor Jim Lehrer and correspondents. On the right side of the screen, visitors saw Twitters with the show’s hashtag.

V-me, the 24/7 Spanish network that’s a popular multicast channel on public TV stations, had secured broadcast rights to the World Series of Boxing, (WSB) it said in a statement today (Nov. 3). Coverage begins Nov. 20 and continues through next season. V-me also creating a WSB news and commentary show, Sexto Round, to run Thursday nights. The Hispanic community has a “long tradition” of enthusiasm for the sport, said Guillermo Sierra, V-me’s senior vice president. It’s the first sport that V-me will carry on an ongoing basis. The network was launched by WNET three years ago (Current, Feb.

Jeannie Ericson, executive director of the Integrated Media Association, will be online with iMA board members Tim Olson and Milton Clipper for a webinar Wednesday (Nov. 3) co-sponsored by the National Center for Media Engagement. The center says it’s a chance to interact with a “newly revitalized” iMA, and provide input to shape the future of the organization that works on innovation, efficiencies and effectiveness within public media. Register here for the webinar.

Vegas PBS’s Vegas Virtual online education program is now part of the Nevada state-approved training provider list, the station said today (Nov. 2). The effort was launched in response to unemployment issues in the state. It provides online education programs, from high-school GED’s to specific career training; prices vary by course, with most between $100 and $150. The state list was created as part of the Workforce Investment Act of 1998, which provides framework for states to improve delivery of employment services to communities.

“We must work differently” in an era of flat membership dues and other funding constraints, said Joyce Herring, PBS’s senior v.p. of station services.

NPR President Vivian Schiller has apologized to public radio for how she and her executives handled last month’s dismissal of news analyst Juan Williams, but the network stands by its decision to let him go.

The National Center for Media Engagement has hired Jennifer MacArthur as its director of television and digital media engagement, the NCME said today (Nov. 1) in a statement. MacAurthur will work with pubTV stations, digital media organizations and content producers as they develop ways to engage communities. MacArthur’s Borderline Media led outreach for the Emmy-nominated POV documentary Traces of the Trade, and has consulted on and directed other national campaigns. She also produced StoryCorps Griot, which collects and distributes oral histories of African Americans, and has worked at Link TV, Village Voice Media and Scholastic Entertainment.

NPR and Frontline scored honors at the Online Journalism Awards Oct. 29 in Washington, D.C. The Gannett Foundation Award for innovative investigative journalism, small site, went to the collaboration among ProPublica, the New Orleans Times-Picayune and Frontline for “Law and Disorder,” a probe into post-Katrina shootings by the police. The Gannett Foundation Award winner for technical innovation in the service of digital journalism was NPR’s API, which provides a way for various computer applications to receive NPR programming (Current, July 21, 2008). And NPR.org won for outstanding use of emerging platforms for its popular mobile apps.

The Public Insight Network is expanding with new partners ProPublica, the Center for Investigative Reporting and the Center for Public Integrity, it announced Oct. 29. The network, a creation of American Public Media in 2003 to encourage public input in the newsgathering process, announced the new collaborations at the 2010 Online News Association conference in Washington, D.C. The investigative news outlets join a growing number of organizations affiliated with the network, including WNYC in New York, the Miami Herald, Oregon Public Broadcasting and the nonprofit online St. Louis Beacon.

For the first time, PBSKids.org is the top-ranked children’s site for number of videos viewed, according to comScore Video Metrix (September 2010). Viewers spent an average of 47 minutes watching nearly 88 million  free educational videos in September, PBS said in a statement today (Nov. 1). That’s twice the monthly average for other top children’s sites. The PBS Kids preschool and PBS Kids Go! players offer free access to more than 3,800 streaming full-length episodes and video clips. PBSKids.org attracts an average of 9.5 million unique visitors per month, with a 72 percent repeat visitor rate. Traffic has increased 28 percent over last September, according to Google Analytics.

TVNewsCheck‘s Contributing Editor P.J. Bednarski spoke at length with PBS President Paula Kerger last week about KCET’s decision to drop its PBS membership in January (Current, Oct. 18). The transcript was posted Sunday (Oct. 31). Excerpts: — Concerning the negotiations: “I don’t want you to walk away from this discussion with the idea that we took a really hard line. There were lots of other options that were put on the table that just weren’t acceptable.” — Reactions in the system: “I’ve heard from a number of stations, and I’m going out to meet with more, and basically what I have heard is consistent: The stations are supportive of the fact that we do care about equity across the system.”

Check out “An open letter to the FCC about a media policy for the digital age,” by two-time Pulitzer Prize winner Steve Coll, now president of the New America Foundation, via Columbia Journalism Review. One of Coll’s ideas, for CPB: “I’ve heard suggestions that new funding should be linked to more pluralistic formulas, including a restructuring of CPB to encompass new digital entrants, such as ProPublica, for example, or local sites like the nonprofit Voice of San Diego — a change that might be signaled by renaming the entity as the Corporation for Public Media. That may be ambitious politically, but it is certainly the right strategic direction.