Tag: CPB
CPB will seek operator to develop American Archive; director leaves project
Having lost its digital projects fund last year, CPB lacks the money to develop the American Archive much further, according to Mark ...Eleven of 12 stations to continue niche blogs
All but one of the dozen pubradio stations in NPR’s Project Argo plan to keep their specialized beat-bloggers working, even though the ...Albany gets a lot of Chartock, but how much is too much?
When Alan Chartock, president of Northeast Public Radio in Albany, N.Y., was on a wife-imposed Mexican vacation, despite her objections he still ...Preschoolers get 40-plus (count ’em!) new PBS Kids math games
PBS Kids unveiled last week its largest offering of math-skill games for preschoolers — a cache of 40 games that can be ...Mission: aid at-risk stations to prevent loss of spectrum
“There are only so many channels for noncommercial television in the United States. If those are lost, they will never come back.”CPI hires four, Abumrad gets $500K MacArthur fellowship, three join FCC panel, and more…
Ellen Weiss, the NPR News chief who took the network’s blame for the Juan Williams affair, has joined the Center for Public ...NPR back as a House target: Draft bill seeks ban on aid
The draft for the House Appropriations Committee’s fiscal year 2012 Labor, Health and Human Services and Education appropriations bill, introduced Sept. 29 ...CPB to equip 2 pubTV facilities as multistation master controls
By having two or three big master-control facilities oversee the digital assembly and transmission of broadcast schedules for all of the nation’s ...On the beat in Juárez, you listen with your gut
As a reporter for the multistation “local journalism center” Fronteras: The Changing America Desk, I am surrounded by borders. I live in ...Pittsburgh’s all-news startup gets an assist from CPB
CPB is backing development of Essential Public Media, the nonprofit whose purchase of Pittsburgh’s WDUQ is pending before the FCC. At the ...Life without CPB aid scary to LJC startups
The seven Local Journalism Centers that launched with major support from CPB have suddenly found themselves on a short timeline to find ...Life without CPB aid scary to Local Journalism Center startups
The seven Local Journalism Centers that launched with major support from CPB have suddenly found themselves on a short timeline to find ...CPB charters a single ombudsman
CPB’s website, as of February 2013, carries this document, “Revised February 1, 2011,” redefining the assignment of its ombudsman. Kenneth Tomlinson, past ...Knives sharpened for renewed assault on CPB
Bills to defund public broadcasting, or at least any radio network that fired Juan Williams, are beginning to seem like a real ...Adrift, mute and helpless
Why everyone but public broadcasters is making federal policy for public media The FCC’s recent National Broadband Plan and its Future of the ...
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