Tag: Diversity
WGBH taps into Olympic spirit with new online doc project
An online-only documentary project from WGBH is channeling the Olympic spirit toward a major sporting event that receives scant media coverage yet ...NPR receives $1.5 million grant to support race and ethnicity reporting
...Like Planet Money, the as-yet-unnamed unit will establish its brand on multiple platforms, through reports for NPR’s radio shows, a blog and ...Alabama firings expose rift over public TV’s mission, editorial standards
It’s not clear what objectives the political appointees of the Alabama Educational Television Commission had in mind when they came out of ...Are we here for 11% of the public or for all of it?
Usually the only speakers in the “public comment” period after an NPR Board meeting are several regional reps of stations, but they were ...Thinking outside the core
While our audience stereotypes may be better informed than they were 40 years ago, they can blind us to our potential ...PBS entrusts key funding job to good friend of its president
Such hires push a hot-button issue: Public broadcasting’s commitment to diversify its largely white male corps of decision-makers.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 ...Purposeful Loni Ding
Loni Ding, 78, a filmmaker who brought issues of Asian American identity to the surface, and to PBS, and helped win legislation ...FM, web audiences elusive so far for innovative Vocalo
Chicago Public Radio’s board, staff and executives didn’t mince words in their latest strategic plan about their bold experiment known as Vocalo. ...What’s the job for the Public Media Corps?
Modeled on programs like Americorps and Teach for America, the Public Media Corps will hire local residents as “fellows” for yearlong residencies ...Dyson to try again for pubradio stardom
Two daily public radio programs for African American audiences have risen from the ashes of News and Notes, a talk show that ...Diversity: More than good intentions?
Several minority advocates who received the report said they appreciated PBS’s effort, but they found it wanting.Latino producers object: PBS diversity data ‘incomplete and often anecdotal’
The Diversity Committee of the National Association of Latino Independent Producers sent this letter to PBS about its November 2008 Report on ...Latino producers to PBS: Diversity data ‘incomplete and often anecdotal’
The Diversity Committee of the National Association of Latino Independent Producers sent this letter to PBS about its November 2008 Report on ...
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