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.