System/Policy
Three Great Lakes stations form reporting partnership
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The collaboration will cover health and the economic importance of the Great Lakes to the region.
Quick Takes
Lawson and Theriault to leave CPB in May; Tovares will oversee content
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“Their contributions to CPB and to public media as a whole have been remarkable,” said CPB‘s president.
Quick Takes
CPB funds Detroit Journalism Cooperative
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The $659,000 grant will cover ongoing collaborative coverage of Detroit’s post-bankruptcy future.
System/Policy
Eleven stations partner for Indiana news network
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CPB is supporting the Indiana-based Regional Journalism Center with a $609,000 grant.
System/Policy
Three Alaska stations to collaborate on energy news
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This is the fourth journalism collaboration CPB has backed in the last two months.
System/Policy
Seven Illinois stations start news collaboration
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CPB will support the initiative with a $715,000 grant.
System/Policy
House approves education bill that would reauthorize Ready To Learn
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The Senate is expected to vote on the legislation Monday.
Executive Compensation
Change to CPB rules asks stations to share more about executive salaries
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A change to CPB’s Community Service Grant provisions aims at having all eligible stations post salary information for top executives on their websites.
Quick Takes
CPB supports Arkansas news project among four public radio stations
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Joining lead station KUAR as project partners are KUAF in Fayetteville, KASU in Jonesboro and KTXK in Texarkana.
Quick Takes
CPB supports Ohio River regional journalism collaboration
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The collaboration will involve seven stations in Kentucky, Ohio and West Virginia.
People
CPB’s Pat Harrison turns down Fiat awarded as raffle prize
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The decision was not a popular one among her family.
CPB
Consultant warns NETA attendees about stricter CPB audits
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An audit of the Public Media Platform, released last week, has the potential to “catch fire with a member of Congress,” the consultant said.
System/Policy
NETA attendees get update on funding outlook and auction plans
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An Association of Public Television Stations briefing focused on federal funding prospects and the next steps in the FCC’s 2016 spectrum auction.
System/Policy
CPB Inspector General faults financial management of Public Media Platform
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In a rare public reaction to an OIG audit, CPB issued a press release after reviewing the report.
System/Policy
CPB, TPT receive Ready To Learn grants as budget fight looms
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The Department of Education awarded $25.5 million in grants in the latest round of RTL funding.
System/Policy
CPB IG advises return of $422,000 for American Graduate
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KETC President Jack Galmiche “strongly disagreed” with the IG’s finding.
People
How a militant Puerto Rican activist group influenced public media
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After raising hell in the streets of Spanish Harlem, several of the Young Lords got into broadcasting and journalism.
System/Policy
Kentucky radio stations look to expand collaboration on programming, development
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“The people that will gain the most from this are our listeners.”
Programs/Content
Texas stations launch newsroom collaboration
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The initiative grows out of the stations’ partnership on producing the daily newsmagazine Texas Standard.
Programs/Content
The last days of ‘Soul!’: Why a trailblazing show about black issues couldn’t last
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An excerpt from a new book looks at the shifts in funding that doomed the documenting of an era.