Current (https://current.org/page/15/?s=climate)
A journalist and former employee of a Pacifica station diagnoses the network’s failure to attract listeners in an article in the Leftist Review.
July 24, 2013 | https://current.org/2013/07/better-programming-would-fix-pacifica-argues-journalist/Cara Mertes, a past executive director of American Documentaries Inc., ex-e.p. of its POV and former programmer for WNET’s Independent Focus, will succeed Orlando Bagwell to head up the Ford Foundation’s JustFilms, which backs social-justice documentaries.
May 30, 2013 | https://current.org/2013/05/orlando-bagwell-departing-ford-foundation-cara-mertes-to-head-its-justfilms/Public radio reporters took all nine awards for radio reporting in this year’s Sigma Delta Chi Awards, which recognize outstanding reporting on radio, TV and the Web by national and local news organizations.
May 22, 2013 | https://current.org/2013/05/public-radio-in-all-nine-categories-of-sigma-delta-chi-awards/Public broadcaster Tavis Smiley is co-sponsoring a daylong symposium for discussion of issues of importance to the Latino community, modeled on his State of the Black Union gatherings.
March 12, 2013 | https://current.org/2013/03/smiley-plans-latino-nation-symposium-to-re-examine-assumptions/During a conference at the U.S. Institute of Peace Feb. 28, the makers of human rights documentaries discussed the techniques and challenges of using modern technology to gain a following for a cause.
March 1, 2013 | https://current.org/2013/03/more-than-airtime-documentary-producers-search-for-new-frontiers-of-engaging-audiences/For a Localore project hosted by KVNF in Paonia, Colo., Julia Kumari Drapkin set out to invert the traditional model of science reporting.
February 25, 2013 | https://current.org/2013/02/pubradio-journalist-wants-western-colorado-to-see-change/S. Leo Chiang’s latest documentary examines partisanship and race “through the eyes of an idealist centrist who happens to be an Asian-American Republican who tried to survive in the ultra-partisan climate that exists in the country today.”
December 26, 2012 | https://current.org/2012/12/mr-cao-goes-to-washington-balances-on-the-bipartisan-fence/This year’s Pipeline survey lists 120 television projects planned, underway, or completed for future seasons on public TV, beginning with Winter 2013.
October 9, 2012 | https://current.org/2012/10/pipeline-2013/Detroit’s WDET admitted in an August letter to donors that it used suspect advertising tactics in on-air fundraising spots promoting an ambitious music-restoration campaign.
September 14, 2012 | https://current.org/2012/09/wdet-apologizes-for-fundraising-spots-simulating-tape-decay/Israel “Izzi” Smith signs on at NPR in November as director of programming.
September 10, 2012 | https://current.org/2012/09/izzy-smith-joins-npr-programming-headlee-leaves-the-takeaway-brooks-heads-project-for-deafblind/The promotion, announced during the Television Critics Association Press Tour last month, was widely reported as an indication that Aronson will succeed founding Executive Producer David Fanning atop PBS’s investigative news centerpiece.
August 6, 2012 | https://current.org/2012/08/aronson-promoted-at-frontline-npr-board-elections-lapin-joins-current-and-more/WNYC will move production of The Takeaway to later in the day and trim its length to one hour starting in September in an effort to boost carriage of the off-the-cuff news show that set out to challenge Morning Edition.
The New York station launched The Takeaway with co-producer Public Radio International in 2008 as an alternative to NPR’s morning blockbuster — the newscomer with a more spontaneous approach and increased audience interaction. But after four years, the show airs on the primary broadcast signals of 55 stations, up by just 15 since September 2009. Ten additional stations air it on digital multicast channels.
July 9, 2012 | https://current.org/2012/07/takeaway-shifts-to-middays-in-bid-for-broader-carriage/Two New England public television stations are moving to sever their ties to state and university licensees, cutting loose to become community-based nonprofits as they adapt to new business models and learn to live without state subsidies.
July 9, 2012 | https://current.org/2012/07/r-i-n-h-go-indie-as-state-funding-ends/For two decades, Dick McPherson has managed the McPherson Associates’ Public Media Co-op, through which 30-plus stations with more than 25 percent of pubTV members have shared fundraising materials, strategies and tests.
May 14, 2012 | https://current.org/2012/05/questions-to-ask-before-you-collaborate/Two years after its launch as a new online news organization covering the San Francisco region, the Bay Citizen is reconsidering its mission and editorial focus under new management.
May 14, 2012 | https://current.org/2012/05/merger-with-cir-brings-shift-in-focus-for-s-f-s-bay-citizen/Produced as a series of monthly specials since 2008, the show will relaunch in May with new segments exploring historical themes suggested by the week’s news events.
April 9, 2012 | https://current.org/2012/04/backstory-with-the-american-history-guys-is-fine-tuning-its-format-and-scaling-up-for-weekly-public-radio-broadcasts/The projects will help reimagine how local public broadcasters serve and engage their communities.
January 30, 2012 | https://current.org/2012/01/localore-backs-crowdsourcing-collaborative-doc-projects/A two-hour documentary examining the impact that conservative talk radio has had on the political climate in Wisconsin — a state currently roiled by an impending gubernatorial recall — will premiere on Milwaukee Public Television on Jan.
January 19, 2012 | https://current.org/2012/01/mptv-to-premiere-documentary-on-conservative-talk-radio-in-wisconsin/All but one of the dozen pubradio stations in NPR’s Project Argo plan to keep their specialized beat-bloggers working, even though the project’s original grant money is running out.
January 17, 2012 | https://current.org/2012/01/eleven-of-12-stations-to-continue-niche-blogs/This year’s Pipeline survey found projects planned, begun or completed about Francis Scott Key and Phil Ochs … religious pilgrims and itinerant carnies … Shakespeare and NASCAR … Margaret Mitchell and Harper Lee … Col. George Armstrong Custer and Joe Paterno … Johann Bach and Freddie Fender … aging brains and young multitaskers. Mark (Survivor) Burnett does a “reality” show for PBS about prime ministers’ chefs, and David (Farmer’s Wife) Sutherland gives us verite of an aspiring Sioux social worker. Ken Burns follows up on the Central Park jogger case and Ric Burns looks at the blood spilled by the Civil War and the bad blood that still remains.
December 12, 2011 | https://current.org/2011/12/pipeline-2012/