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Monday roundup: Downton gaffe draws laughs; TechCrunch profiles Matter

By Current Staff | August 18, 2014

• A publicity photo from the fifth season of Downton Abbey made the rounds on the Internet for all the wrong reasons. The shot of stars Hugh Bonneville and Laura Carmichael featured an anachronistic plastic water bottle perched on a mantle. Producer ITV has since removed the shot from its press site, according to the BBC, and it’s also vanished from PBS’s pressroom. “You had one job, guys. One job,” Buzzfeed wrote.

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Creative arts well-represented in Matter’s second startup class

By Andrew Lapin, Freelance Contributor | October 16, 2013

The San Francisco–based startup accelerator, funded by KQED and the Knight Foundation and owned in part by Public Radio Exchange, has announced a new round of seven early-stage companies joining Matter.

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Demo Day marks ‘rite of passage’ for Matter startups

By Andrew Lapin, Freelance Contributor | June 25, 2013

Matter, the first startup accelerator backed by public media, unveiled the latest iterations of its inaugural class’s technology products June 13, introducing its first six teams of entrepreneurs to the venture capitalists of Silicon Valley.

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Pubmedia-funded start-up accelerator Matter announces inaugural class

By Andrew Lapin, Freelance Contributor | March 6, 2013

The first start-up class of Matter, the media accelerator backed by Knight Foundation, KQED and the Public Radio Exchange, includes Localore partner Zeega.

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For-profit start-up accelerator aims to make public media ‘Matter’ to Silicon Valley

By Andrew Lapin, Freelance Contributor | December 6, 2012

The start-up accelerator unveiled a year ago as an experiment in bringing Silicon Valley’s culture of innovation to public media has rebranded itself in a move to attract a wider range of ideas and investors.

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Frontline alumnus will lead incubator for new ventures

By Karen Everhart, Managing Editor | March 12, 2012

Public Media Accelerator, a laboratory for developing new-tech public services backed by a $2.5 million grant from the Knight Foundation, will be led by a former Frontline producer who is returning to public media after a stint in Silicon Valley’s startup culture.