Programs/Content
Matter launches new class of media startups
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Media startup accelerator Matter launches its fourth class on entrepreneurs.
Quick Takes
Friday roundup: WYPR union effort stalls; Downton Abbey reportedly bans modern undies
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Plus: Mike Starling starts an LPFM station, and NPR’s creative director talks about her work process.
Quick Takes
Monday roundup: Downton gaffe draws laughs; TechCrunch profiles Matter
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• A publicity photo from the fifth season of Downton Abbey made the rounds on the Internet for all the wrong reasons. The shot of stars Hugh Bonneville and Laura Carmichael featured an anachronistic plastic water bottle perched on a mantle. Producer ITV has since removed the shot from its press site, according to the BBC, and it’s also vanished from PBS’s pressroom. “You had one job, guys. One job,” Buzzfeed wrote.
Quick Takes
Friday roundup: Matter announces third class, O’Brien wins PBS award
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Plus: NPR’s ombudsman explains what he’s been up to, and Storycorps plays a hand in the Sept. 11 Memorial Museum.
Quick Takes
Monday roundup: WTTW names center for trustee, 2-Toy rolls on, Matter sets Demo Day
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• WTTW announced a major gift Monday from the family of Renée Crown, board vice chair of licensee Window to the World Communication Inc. (WWCI), and will name its northwest Chicago media center in her honor. The donation celebrates Crown’s birthday as well as her tenure as “an extraordinary trustee and leader” of WWCI since 1981, the station said. It did not reveal the amount of the contribution. • Premiums sure have come a long way. John Kerr, former WGBH development manager, recently ran across this Channel 2-Toy at a friend’s house.
Programs/Content
Creative arts well-represented in Matter’s second startup class
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The San Francisco–based startup accelerator, funded by KQED and the Knight Foundation and owned in part by Public Radio Exchange, has announced a new round of seven early-stage companies joining Matter.
Tech
Demo Day marks ‘rite of passage’ for Matter startups
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Matter, the first startup accelerator backed by public media, unveiled the latest iterations of its inaugural class’s technology products June 13, introducing its first six teams of entrepreneurs to the venture capitalists of Silicon Valley.
Programs/Content
Pubmedia-funded start-up accelerator Matter announces inaugural class
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The first start-up class of Matter, the media accelerator backed by Knight Foundation, KQED and the Public Radio Exchange, includes Localore partner Zeega.
Corey Ford
For-profit start-up accelerator aims to make public media ‘Matter’ to Silicon Valley
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The start-up accelerator unveiled a year ago as an experiment in bringing Silicon Valley’s culture of innovation to public media has rebranded itself in a move to attract a wider range of ideas and investors.