Tag: Education/Engagement
Sesame Workshop and Ape Entertainment release first-ever Sesame Street comic book
Sesame Workshop and Ape Entertainment released the first comic book featuring the cast of Sesame Street May 4, to coincide with national ...TPT launches Open Air, a new brand aimed at engaging young viewers
Twin Cities Public Television describes its new Open Air programming and promotional initiative as “tailor-made to meet the demands of a new ...Ready to Learn builds on digital-learning push with new station grants
The Ready to Learn program backing educational media and outreach for children ages 2 to 8 is making digital learning through community ...To connect with the under-30 crowd, NPR tries face time
NPR Generation Listen, the network's new outreach effort for millenials, sees one-on-one interaction as the key to cultivating its younger fanbase.Public TV’s first TED Talks Education special tapes live this week
TED, the nonprofit behind the high-profile conferences about ideas in technology, entertainment and design (as well as NPR’s new weekend series), and ...New talking point on Capitol Hill: PubTV’s role in education
Public television’s strongest case for preserving tax-based support for stations and CPB centers on informing political leaders about the full range of ...Storytelling ‘pop-up’ Hear Here builds bridge from KALW to Oakland
Hear Here launched last spring as an experiment testing new ways to collect and distribute hyperlocal stories. About twice a month on ...Smiley plans “Latino Nation” symposium, to “re-examine assumptions”
Public broadcaster Tavis Smiley is co-sponsoring a daylong symposium for discussion of issues of importance to the Latino community, modeled on his ...Michele Norris shares details of her Race Card Project at SXSW
AUSTIN, Texas — Former All Things Considered co-host Michele Norris discussed details of her Race Card Project during a March 9 panel at the ...More than airtime: Documentary producers search for new frontiers of engaging audiences
During a conference at the U.S. Institute of Peace Feb. 28, the makers of human rights documentaries discussed the techniques and challenges ...Putting more public service into public media at 2013 APTS Summit
Representatives from four sectors of the public service community made a case for more partnerships with public television during the opening session ...Pubradio journalist wants western Colorado to ‘See Change’
For a Localore project hosted by KVNF in Paonia, Colo., Julia Kumari Drapkin set out to invert the traditional model of science ...A growing push for data-driven documentary filmmaking
Wendy Levy, the director of arts consultancy group New Arts AXIS, called for documentary filmmakers to embrace big data tools as a ...Upcoming American Graduate specials tackle lax schools, juvenile justice system
A pair of documentaries to be released for public TV broadcasts next month focus on two of the most difficult aspects of ...WBEZ turns to matchmaking in ads aimed at younger listeners
Dubbed the “2032 Membership Drive,” the station’s newest citywide marketing blitz encourages young “interesting people” to “make babies” who will grow up ...
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