Tag: CPB
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 ...Journalists counted: 3,200 pros; 6,000 total
Public broadcasting has 3,224 professional journalists plus 2,770 nonprofessionals contributing to its reporting, making a total of nearly 6,000, according to a ...CPB budget allocation formula, 1981
In 1981, Congress significantly restricted the Corporation for Public Broadcasting’s decision-making on spending, funneling fixed percentages of CPB’s federal appropriation to specific ...‘Snap Judgment’: latest in harvest from ’07 Talent Quest
Snap Judgment, one of three new shows conceived from the CPB-backed Public Radio Talent Quest, has become a whirlwind of multimedia production with the ...Public Broadcasting Act of 1967
Public Law 90-129, 90th Congress, November 7, 1967 (as amended to April 26, 1968) This law was enacted less than 10 months after ...CPB/PBS Diversity and Innovation Fund weekly series RFP
Three years after Latino activists bitterly criticized Ken Burns’s The War for omitting interviews with Hispanic soldiers and sailors, CPB and PBS concluded negotiations ...Schedule: web platform model by year’s end
An NPR-led project this month officially launched planning for a joint Public Media Platform to put public radio and TV content on ...Incentives for ‘diversity, innovation’ come with big CPB grant to PBS
CPB and PBS are completing an agreement that may lead to the agency’s first annual grants for the PBS National Program Service ...Project for L.A.’s youth of color still lacks FM channel
The masterminds of efforts such as NPR’s Bryant Park Project and Chicago Public Radio’s Vocalo know well the difficulties ...Radio nets and PBS propose ‘public media platform’ based on API
... National Public Radio requested CPB aid to begin technical and business planning of a shared web platform with American Public Media, ...Robben Fleming, 93
Robben Wright Fleming, 93, a former president of the Corporation for Public Broadcasting and of the University of Michigan, died Jan. 11, ...Robben Fleming, one of CPB’s best presidents, ‘seemed to me the least interested in himself’
David Stewart, one of CPB’s original employees and later a writer and Current contributing editor, sent this letter after the death of Robben ...Output of Makers Quest turning up on air, online
These projects were the spawn of Makers Quest 2.0, a CPB-funded, $500,000 initiative, organized by the Association of Independents in Radio (AIR), ...New CPB chair sees watershed for public media
Maybe we’re at a 1967 moment again,” says Ernest Wilson III, shortly after his election as chair of the Corporation for Public ...Clash at Crossroads
Could CPB have avoided the public collision of wills over one of the America at a Crossroads documentaries that tainted its $20 million project ...
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