Tag: Journalism
Georgia ramble turns exposé
Ira Glass didn’t know what he was in for when he walked into the post office in the seaside burg of Brunswick, ...Cyberpirates to PBS: watch where you sail
Software vulnerabilities, including an outdated operating system used by PBS.org, allowed the pirate band of hackers LulzSec to sail deep into the ...Launch postponed for PBSnews.org
PBS has postponed the rollout of an online news aggregation site called PBSnews.org that it had planned to start in January or ...Radio joins local probes, ruffles local feathers
WLRN Radio and the Miami Herald have been collaborating on multiplatform news production for eight years, but the investigative-reporting package that they published this ...Lehrer hands off anchor role to reporting team
Jim Lehrer, who has reported the news of the day for more than 50 years, became part of it May 12 when ...Editorial integrity panel says the time’s right to think about principles
Now might not seem like the best time for the public broadcasting system to be pondering philosophical questions of identity and purpose, ...STING: The Right jabs pubradio with NPR fundraiser’s words
Neither Ron Schiller nor Betsy Liley had eaten before at Café Milano, the upscale see-and-be-seen restaurant in Georgetown, before Feb. 22, when ...Panel to NPR: Rein in punditizing
NPR should have its journalists phase out any long-term contracts for appearances on other media outlets, monitor those appearances more carefully and ...Local, online, news, profitable, sustainable — Which word does not belong with the others?
“The big opportunity — and where the most disruption is — is in local media.”—Vivian Schiller, president, NPR “I have little doubt ...NPR Board hires counsel to probe what went wrong
Reacting to NPR’s abrupt image makeover — from ascendant news organization to partisan punching bag — the network’s board last week hired ...NPR sets a goal: add 100 reporters to statehouse beats
A multiyear initiative led by NPR, Impact of Government, eventually will put two additional state-level reporters to work in each of the ...Under-explained firing makes NPR an issue just in time for election
Top NPR officials may have thought their Oct. 20 decision to dismiss veteran journalist Juan Williams was about journalistic objectivity, but to ...Instructional TV sales exec moves to NBR’s bigger league
In his career in the media niche of instructional television, Mykalai Kontilai worked with several respected names in public broadcasting as well ...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 ...Buyer will take Nightly Business Report to ‘a new level’
WPBT sells to entrepreneur with history of legal disputes: Mykalai Kontilai, whose NBR Worldwide this month purchased Nightly Business Report, a staple ...
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