Tag: Journalism
UNC-TV lays down its press shield
Is a public TV station licensed to a state university system an agency of the state if a legislative ...Public affairs: What the invisible hand of the news market leaves all too invisible
People consuming public affairs coverage because of duty or a fascination with policy create a demand for news with context, ...Shared reporting planned for Ohio Basin ecosystem
If any news subject lends itself to coverage by multistation collaborations, it’s the environment of places like the Ohio River Valley, a ...For NewsHour, one staff is stronger than two
They busted down newsroom walls, adding some space but much more humanity, doubling the number of desks, adding new editing stations and ...Back to the future: Here’s a way public TV can ramp up local news
Those calling for more local news from public media — and those experimenting with new ways to provide it — should examine ...To save journalism, click ’n’ donate?
Now a dot-com called Kachingle is starting to roll out an online service designed to make voluntary support easy for even the ...News coop for Chicago: print, online, on WTTW
A multimedia news organization committed to public service journalism will begin producing regional coverage of the Chicago area and Illinois for The New ...‘More local, more inclusive, more interactive’
Citing public broadcasting’s “mixed history” in providing local news and information, a blue-ribbon panel has called on the field to “move quickly ...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 ...Timeline: Crossroads and context
The America at a Crossroads series and the 2007 standoff and furor over one of its documentaries, Islam vs. Islamists;, had its roots in the period ...In PBS news cooperation talks, Bettag says, ‘nobody pulled back’
Tom Bettag, the former ABC Nightline and CBS News producer, says he’s “on a very fast timeline” to report to PBS by June 15 ...Recession 101 is the next course for 22 pubradio journalists
A new journalism training program offered by NPR News and funded by CPB will train 22 public radio reporters from 19 states ...Online collaboration: TV, radio have sitdowns
PBS will go public Wednesday with discussion of its News & Public Affairs Initiative — an ongoing study that’s weighing options for ...That subscription fuss? An early spark in an evolving relationship
“News this good isn’t free.” I find myself delivering some variation on that remark during every single public radio pledge break on ...News cycle attracts record listening
NPR programming on public radio stations topped its previous audience record by reaching 27.5 million listeners a week during Arbitron’s fall 2008 ...
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