Tag: POV
Two public TV networks decline to air POV documentary After Tiller
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 ...Friday roundup: Smartbinge boosts WNYC traffic; McKibben praises podcasts
Plus: A controversial film spurs letters to PBS's ombud, and Cookie Monster stars in a new app.Thursday roundup: Sweaters for public media, This American Life in the U.K.
Plus: NPR explains its analytics dashboard, and the Knight Foundation's interest in digital storytelling.POV expands digital operations with $250K from Knight
The grant will allow the PBS program to fund new projects and a digital technology fellowship.Thursday roundup: Pacifica standoff gets TV coverage, POV doc travels to Cuba
• The standoff at Pacifica’s headquarters in Berkeley, Calif., got coverage on a local news program on Oakland’s KTVU. Executive Director Summer Reese ...Friday roundup: Today’s pubradio SXSW activities; a Mister Rogers ride gets revamped
A Pittsburgh-area theme park is swapping out Mister Rogers for Daniel Tiger.Monday roundup: WNYC gets $10 million, POV pairs with NYT, PRPD elects directors
• WNYC/New York Public Radio is receiving the largest grant ever given to a public radio station, it announced today. The pubcaster ...Focus on anti-terrorism becomes ‘life-changing’ story for filmmaker Poitras
After plumbing the global repercussions of America’s war against terrorism, documentary filmmaker Laura Poitras helped expose how that war has stripped away ...AFI Docs festival screens diverse pubTV films
Public TV was less visible at this year's American Film Institute documentary festival. Yet several of the 10 films that had received ...NEA announces 2013 media arts grants; OVEE and AIR projects among recipients
The National Endowment of the Arts announced $4.68 million in funding to 76 media-arts projects April 23, including new grantees such as ...POV announces 26th season lineup, plans a move to Mondays
After a season of bad press following PBS’s much-maligned 2012 decision to move its flagship independent documentary program POV from Tuesday nights to Thursdays, ...POV’s American Promise wins special jury award for U.S. docs
The 90-minute feature was produced and directed by Joe Brewster and Michèle Stephenson, a married couple who traced the education of two ...POV and StoryCorps each receive $1 million from MacArthur Foundation
American Documentary, home to PBS’s independent film showcase POV, and StoryCorps, the oral history project heard on NPR, are each receiving $1 million ...POV, StoryCorps get $1 million each from MacArthur Foundation
American Documentary, home to PBS’s independent film showcase POV, and StoryCorps, the oral history project heard on NPR, are each receiving $1 million as ...Oscar-nominated POV filmmaker detained at airport
Palestinian documentary filmmaker Emad Burnat, whose Oscar-nominated film 5 Broken Cameras received funding from PBS’s POV, was detained Feb. 20 at Los Angeles International Airport after arriving in the ...
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