Programs/Content
Sesame Workshop music videos widen PBS Kids’ focus on civics
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“Together We Can” sets lessons on civic responsibility, rules and the Constitution to song.
People
Sherrie Westin named CEO of Sesame Workshop
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Westin is the first woman to be Sesame Workshop’s CEO since the organization was established in 1968.
System/Policy
Sesame Workshop writers’ union votes to authorize strike
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The writers, who are represented by the Writers Guild of America, East, seek new benefits and payment standards for residuals from streaming, among other protections.
System/Policy
Sesame Workshop writers union seeks streaming residuals, paid parental leave and protections from AI
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The writers, represented by the Writers Guild of America, East, are hoping to reach a new deal before the current season of “Sesame Street” ends.
Programs/Content
How pubmedia can build relationships with teens and tweens
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A new study from Sesame Workshop draws on lessons from project leaders and youth alumni.
Programs/Content
Pubmedia’s datacasting startup forges content partnership with Sesame Workshop
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“The partnership model is key to everything we do,” says Erik Langner, CEO of the Information Equity Initiative.
Programs/Content
How ‘Sesame Street’ took root in post-Soviet Russia as ‘Ulitsa Sezam’
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In a new memoir, the lead producer behind the creation of Russia’s “Sesame Street” recounts the show’s tumultuous birth.
Programs/Content
Sesame Workshop focuses on racial literacy with four-year Coming Together initiative
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The project’s content will encourage conversations “that parents, caregivers or providers often don’t know how to start.”
Programs/Content
The missing middle: Reimagining a future for tweens, teens and public media
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Researchers from the Joan Ganz Cooney Center report on how public media can create media that’s relevant to the lives of the teens and tweens who make up Gen Z.
People
Steve Youngwood elected CEO of Sesame Workshop, Sherrie Westin named president
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Youngwood and Westin will take over for Jeffrey Dunn, who will retire in June.
People
Public broadcasters memorialize Bobbi English by creating award for work in early childhood education
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Each recipient’s local station will receive a $15,000 grant from Sesame Workshop to advance its work in early childhood education.
Audience research
CPB funds major research project on teenage media usage
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Findings will help public media’s content creators and stations connect with school-aged children and teens.
Obituaries
Bobbi English, Sesame Workshop TV executive, dies at 57
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In her dream job, English managed Sesame Workshop’s relationships with public television for 19 years.
Rewind: The Roots of Public Media
After 50 years on TV, has Sesame Street been gentrified?
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To one viewer and parent, competitive pressures and fading institutional knowledge have compromised the show’s “gritty urban utopianism.”
System/Policy
Pointing to harmful messaging, autism organization ends partnership with Sesame Workshop
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The Autistic Self Advocacy Network said that a resource kit for parents, developed by the autism organization Autism Speaks, furthers “stigma against autistic children and adults.”
Programs/Content
To mark show’s 50th anniversary, ‘Sesame Street’ producer adds episodes to pubcasting archive
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More than 4,000 episodes of the show will be made available to the public over the next year.
Quick Takes
Sesame Workshop: No, Bert and Ernie are not gay
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Comments from a former writer for the show prompted a tweet from the Workshop Tuesday.
Quick Takes
HBO agreement reverses financial losses at Sesame Workshop
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The agreement “totally changed our economics,” said CEO Jeffrey Dunn.
Development
Sesame Workshop and International Rescue Committee win $100M MacArthur grant
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The nonprofits partnered to win a five-year grant to educate children displaced by conflict in the Middle East.
Quick Takes
Sesame Workshop advances in $100M MacArthur Foundation competition
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In partnership with the International Rescue Committee, Sesame is among four organizations that advanced in the competition to address a big, complex global problem.