Programs/Content
NEH backs public media projects, independent productions in the humanities
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Two public media stations and 13 independent projects received nearly $4.3 million supporting films, podcasts and archival preservation.
Programs/Content
American Archive ‘edit-a-thons’ enhance Wikipedia with pubmedia content
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The partnership is mutually beneficial: Wikipedia becomes more reliable, and the American Archive of Public Broadcasting exposes its content to a wider audience.
System/Policy
Kansas, New Mexico stations will add content to pubcasting archive
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Grants are supporting a digitization project involving stations in the states and the American Archive of Public Broadcasting.
Programs/Content
To mark show’s 50th anniversary, ‘Sesame Street’ producer adds episodes to pubcasting archive
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More than 4,000 episodes of the show will be made available to the public over the next year.
Programs/Content
Preservation effort will digitize historic recordings in WRVR’s archive
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The station run by New York City’s Riverside Church aired interviews with Malcolm X and sermons by the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.
Quick Takes
Library of Congress provides access to Cavett archives, public TV Watergate hearings
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The library announced Friday the acquisition of Cavett’s archives and an online presentation of public television’s historic coverage of the Watergate hearings.
System/Policy
Event at Library of Congress to honor half-century of pubcasting
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Participants include former PBS host Dick Cavett and Sen. Ed Markey.
Quick Takes
Mellon Foundation provides $1 million to public broadcasting archive
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The funding will back changes that include hiring a full-time engagement manager.
Programs/Content
American Archive enlists public in fixing transcripts with correction game
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FIX IT asks players to correct transcripts as they compare them to the original audio.