Tag: Philadelphia
Temple University axes nonprofit news site AxisPhilly, shifts focus to other ventures
The Center for Public Interest Journalism at Temple University shuttered nonprofit news website AxisPhilly June 13 after two years of reporting that ...Philly’s WXPN brings less-known blues musicians to town
This month Philadelphia’s WXPN launched the Mississippi Blues Project, a concert series and website featuring eight musicians who have had limited exposure outside ...Philadelphia broadcasters John B. Roberts, 94, and Bruce H. Beale, 82
Two pioneering pubcasters in Philadelphia, John B. Roberts and Bruce Harrison Beale, died on the same day, March 8 [2012]. John B. ...State drops death penalty for commentator Mumia Abu-Jamal
Mumia Abu-Jamal, the onetime radio journalist, activist and convicted killer whose planned jailhouse commentaries were dropped by NPR after an outcry 17 ...Securing the union, pumping up the volume, bowling in a league
From the opening moments of its 2001 Annual Meeting in Philadelphia, PBS drew on the city’s role in U.S. history and a ...Philly gets its first airing of 1968 Wiseman film
If Frederick Wiseman’s High School works like a time machine, transporting viewers back to their own coming of age experiences in this quintessential American ...With Abu-Jamal coming on, WRTI drops Pacifica
The prospect of radio commentaries by a controversial death-row inmate “accelerated” Temple University’s decision to pull Pacifica news off WRTI, the university ...Ex-reporter gains notice on death row
Even from a concrete cell where he is locked up 23 hours a day, Mumia Abu-Jamal — convicted murderer and former public ...Commentaries from prison nixed, but —
NPR’s decisions to air, and then not to air, Mumia Abu-Jamal’s death-row commentaries might yet take another turn. The network is committed ...
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