Tag: Mission
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There are now enough public radio stations to reach more than 90 percent of the American public, and pubcasters have adding specialized ...Beyond Big Bird: What is public media’s value today?
When every year seems to bring a new round of threats to public media funding, it’s clear that public media isn’t doing ...Fanning on a ‘big bang’ moment for Frontline: bringing online depth to reporting
David Fanning, e.p. of Frontline, discussed the WGBH program’s evolving use of the Web Aug. 23, 2010, in accepting the Goldsmith Career Award ...Is it time to kick out Andre Rieu?
Posted in Current‘s reader forum, DirectCurrent, by Mark Jeffries on April 22, 2009 at 12:55pm In the Current article on spring fundraising and pledge ...Not-too-strange new bedfellows: print refugees
Groundbreaking collaborations are beginning to surface as public broadcasting stations partner with laid-off print journalists to bolster multiplatform local and regional reporting.We’re deep into news — let’s walk that walk
"Let’s face it," writes a prominent pubradio station news director, "despite 40 years of evolution, we have produced a lot of journalism, ...Good isn’t good enough — our best is ahead
Public radio is hitting home runs, but it can do better. Producer and StoryCorps founder Dave Isay says public radio is entering ...Native radio: at the heart of public radio’s mission
Ride the school bus on the Hopi Reservation in northern Arizona and you’ll hear Shooting Stars, a program for kids produced mostly ...Public TV’s vision of itself: a lens for understanding the world
After some fiddling with language, station leaders Feb. 23 [2004] endorsed a new mission statement describing public TV as a “unifying force ...Why public television?: Public TV’s mission statement, 2004
Public TV stations adopted this statement of mission at the PBS Members Meeting, Feb. 23, 2004. For more information. See also Current‘s coverage, ...Carnegie I: E.B. White’s letter to the first Carnegie Commission
In this letter to the first Carnegie Commission, the Pulitzer Prize-winning New Yorker magazine essayist (1899-1985) gives one of the most compact and eloquent ...
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