Quick Takes
Wednesday roundup: PBS ombuds criticizes network’s treatment of Current; Poynter looks toward reinvention
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Plus: A WXXI totebag tweets, and a Network Operations Center opens in Florida.
David Koch
Koch protester takes stage at PBS meeting, gets handcuffed and shown out
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PBS staff asked Current to stop photographing as Brant Olson was put against a wall and handcuffed.
David Koch
Activists turn up heat on WGBH over role of David Koch
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Petitions and projections aim at the billionaire on the station’s board.
System/Policy
Ongoing protest of WGBH Board member Koch to light up Boston landmarks
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Three progressive groups have organized a protest Friday night at Boston’s WGBH as they continue to pressure the station to drop conservative billionaire David Koch from its board.
Quick Takes
Thursday roundup: Pacifica standoff gets TV coverage, POV doc travels to Cuba
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• The standoff at Pacifica’s headquarters in Berkeley, Calif., got coverage on a local news program on Oakland’s KTVU. Executive Director Summer Reese is defying the board’s efforts to dismiss her and has camped out at the office, with supporters and even her mother in tow. Watch KTVU’s video and see the barricaded door, an air mattress used by the holed-up staff, and more trappings of this unusual episode. The report also features Pacifica Board Chair Margy Wilkinson, who is trying to fire Reese. Wilkinson alleges that at some point employees were shredding documents, which Reese denies in an oddly clipped statement in the segment.