Tag: This American Life
Friday roundup: Kansas spares pubcasting funding; letter sheds light on dismissal in Ga.
Plus: Vermont Public Radio spies a threat to its Montreal listeners, and another film draws from This American Life.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.Thursday roundup: PBS promotes execs; Code Switch crowdsources poetry
• PBS has promoted two of its programming execs. Michael Kelley, formerly v.p. of strategy and business affairs, ascends to s.v.p., programming and ...Digital differences led to split between PRI, This American Life
TAL's desire to keep hold of its digital assets spurred the show's departure from its longtime distributor.Thursday roundup: Pacifica names new interim head; Montagne evicted in Kabul
• The Pacifica Foundation announced the appointment of a new interim executive director, even as the one the foundation attempted to fire, ...Monday roundup: TAL squelches PRX rumors; NPR Books boosts New Directions sales
• This American Life has yet to decide on a new distributor, contrary to Chicago media writer Bob Feder’s report over the weekend that ...After 17 years, PRI ending distribution of This American Life
Public Radio International announced today that it will end distribution of one of its biggest titles, This American Life. The Minneapolis-based PRI has offered TAL to stations ...Monday roundup: CPB Board gets nominee; public TV funding rebounds
• President Obama has nominated Dr. Judith Davenport to serve as a CPB Board director, the White House announced Friday. Davenport, a ...Friday roundup: This American Doodle, troubles at KCETLink
• Nothing spells love quite like This American Life. For a Valentine’s Day Doodle, Google has enlisted the Public Radio International program to present five ...This American Life, Radiolab, Radio Rookies among Third Coast winners
Programs produced by Chicago’s WBEZ, New York’s WNYC and Miami’s WLRN won awards from the Third Coast International Audio Festival, handed out ...Alabama network will drop Public Radio International shows
Alabama Public Radio will eliminate Public Radio International shows from its schedule, dropping This American Life and The World, reports Tuscaloosanews.com. Director Elizabeth Brock said the ...Scarce funding limits public media’s response to gun debate
The mass shootings last year in Colorado, Wisconsin and Connecticut reawakened Americans to recurring tragedies of gun violence and rekindled a national ...Independent Lens, WNYC and NPR among pubmedia’s 2012 Peabody winners
Judges in the 72nd annual Peabody competition selected winners as “the best in electronic media for the year 2012,” including PBS programs ...Ira Glass responds to charges that he’s trying to censor risqué podcast
As one of the most popular podcasts of all time, Public Radio International’s This American Life has had to deal with its fair share of ...Latest shows inspired by ‘TAL’ speak in foreign tongues
Among the new radio programs inspired by “This American Life” are two productions for non–English-speaking listeners.
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