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Plus a marriage proposal delivered by pledge drive.
What we’ve been reading this week.
A roundup of insights and comments from several public media sessions at the annual conference.
Why are public media’s tech-savvy workers leaving?
Attendees at a SXSW panel Saturday got a look at how NPR uses website and social media metrics and shares the information among its journalists — those who want to know, at least.
Check our list of pubmedia-related sessions — and let us know if we missed yours.
• President Obama has nominated Dr. Judith Davenport to serve as a CPB Board director, the White House announced Friday. Davenport, a retired dentist, co-founded Pittsburgh, Pa.–based Sheridan Broadcasting Corp. with her husband Ronald in 1973. She also serves on several other boards, including the Carnegie Museums of Pittsburgh and the Andy Warhol Museum. The nomination goes to the Senate for confirmation.
A Pittsburgh-area theme park is swapping out Mister Rogers for Daniel Tiger.
A key role in covering a Texas lawmaker’s 2013 filibuster led to an expanded focus on video for the nonprofit news organization.