Programs/Content
Journalism initiative aims to re-energize local coverage around the country
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Three public broadcasters and the nonprofit newsroom Mississippi Today will host reporters from the program’s inaugural class.
Development
With new MPB offering, donors can support pubmedia through credit, debit purchases
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Mississippi Public Broadcasting is the first public media organization to work with Softgiving, a financial technology company that lets donors round up payments and give the change to nonprofits.
System/Policy
As spectrum auction winds down, some public TV stations must plan moves to new channels
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State networks in Maryland and Mississippi are among those facing big engineering projects.
Ethics in Public Media
With growing emphasis on social media, MPB requires more staff to adhere to ethics code
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As a state-owned public broadcasting network, MPB has to ensure that its content is impeccably fair and accurate.
People
Public radio provides “lifeline,” direction for renowned lawyer Dickie Scruggs
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Listening to public radio while doing time connected Dickie Scruggs to the outside world and his former life.
System/Policy
State cuts support to Mississippi Public Broadcasting
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State funding made up about 65 percent of MPB’s budget this fiscal year.
Programs/Content
Two public TV networks decline to air POV documentary After Tiller
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At least two public television networks opted not to air this week the POV documentary After Tiller, which profiles four late-term abortion providers and prompted a campaign among anti-abortion organizations. POV’s plans to air the film’s national broadcast premiere at 10 p.m. Sept. 1 spurred an Aug. 27 online statement from Judie Brown, president of the American Life League, who called the documentary “nothing short of pure propaganda intended to demonize the entire pro-life movement and drum up support for late-term abortion.” Several other anti-abortion websites urged visitors to contact PBS headquarters or PBS Ombudsman Michael Getler to protest stations airing the film. South Carolina ETV in Columbia and Mississippi Public Broadcasting in Jackson declined to air After Tiller.
System/Policy
Mississippi boosts state aid to pubcasting after half-decade of cuts
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MPR credits successful legislative outreach and a state revenue increase for its nine-percent aid bump.
Programs/Content
Fresh Air returning to daytime in Mississippi
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Fresh Air will air during daytime hours on MPB’s Think Radio network for the first time since 2010, when the network’s then–Executive Director Judith Lewis took the interview show off the air, citing concerns about host Terry Gross’s discussion of sex with her guests.