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National Minority Consortia

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Pubmedia consortia win MacArthur grants for diversity in documentaries

By Dru Sefton, Senior Editor | August 15, 2017

The National Black Programming Consortium receives $750,000 to launch a new initiative.

Programs/Content

Dramatic films take prizes in PBS Online Film Festival

By Griffin Rowell, Editorial Intern | August 2, 2017

Jurors and viewers picked shorts presented by NBPC and PIC.

Diversity in Public Media

A guide to organizations bringing diversity to public media

By Dru Sefton, Senior Editor | July 21, 2016

These 14 groups are tasked with goals that support diversity in public media content.

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‘Old perceptions’ hinder work between CPB and minority consortia, report says

By Dru Sefton, Senior Editor | April 7, 2016

The report was commissioned by CPB to evaluate operations of consortia members.

Jacquie Jones

Jones steps down from helm of National Black Programming Consortium

By Dru Sefton, Senior Editor | May 2, 2014

Jacquie Jones, executive director of the National Black Programming Consortium (NBPC) since 2005, has resigned, effective immediately, but will continue to produce for public media. Stepping in as interim is Leslie Fields-Cruz, programming director, who has supervised distribution of programs to PBS since 2001. NBPC, a 35-year-old nonprofit that is affiliated with the CPB-backed National Minority Consortia, develops, produces and funds public media content focusing on the African American experience, such as the Peabody-winning documentary, 180 Days: A Year Inside An American High School. The 2013 film, which Jones directed and produced, portrayed day-to-day challenges of students and educators at an alternative high school in in Washington, D.C.

Jones will return to film production with the follow-up, 180 Days: Hartsville, a coproduction of South Carolina ETV and NBPC. Her previous television production credits include 1998’s Africans in America— another Peabody winner — and Matters of Race in 2003 for PBS; From Behind Closed Doors: Sex in the 20th Century for Showtime; and The World Before Us for History Channel.

CPB

CPB reduces aid to longtime grantees

By Dru Sefton, Senior Editor | June 24, 2013

CPB is reassessing its funding commitments to several grantees that provide specialized assistance and diverse programming to the public TV system.

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