Tag: Web/mobile content
Web series explores what Black Folk Don’t do
Doing yoga, going green and enjoying winter sports sound like innocuous topics for a public media web series — that is, until ...LPB content grants go to nine programs, including two web series
Latino Public Broadcasting announced today that it is backing nine programs through its Public Media Content Fund, which supports Latino-themed content for ...Follow Planet Money’s Kickstarted T-shirt odyssey
The cotton T-shirt, a public radio merchandising staple, is front-and-center in a new multimedia project from NPR's economics reporting unit Planet Money.Localore project Black Gold Boom gets funding for 2014 documentary, transmedia work
The grant will fund a film focusing mainly on the oil boom's effects on Native tribes.NPR combining news apps, multimedia teams
NPR’s news applications and multimedia operations are merging into a single unit to be headed by current News Applications Editor Brian Boyer. “We ...TPT rebrands youth initiative as ReWire
Twin Cities Public Television has adopted the name ReWire for the statewide network’s youth programming and engagement initiative. TPT settled on the ...With Sparticl, TPT hopes to make STEM learning fun
Twin Cities Public Television launched Sparticl, a new STEM-focused sharing website geared toward middle-school students, Oct. 1 with support from a major ...On The Longest Shortest Time, Hillary Frank finds solace in stories of other parents
Pubradio producer Hillary Frank channeled her experiences during a difficult pregnancy into parenting podcast The Longest Shortest Time, which recently completed a successful Kickstarter ...PBS, stations lukewarm to CPTV’s ‘pay to play’ mobile app
Local public TV stations and PBS have opted, for now, to sit out of Connecticut Public Television’s new digital venture offering paid ...Creative arts well-represented in Matter’s second startup class
The San Francisco–based startup accelerator, funded by KQED and the Knight Foundation and owned in part by Public Radio Exchange, has announced ...NPR tweaks Composer 2.0 software for classical stations
NPR Digital has altered the latest version of its Composer software used by stations for tracking playlists and scheduling programs. Composer 2.0, ...Public TV connects to feds’ new emergency alert system
A $56.8 million technology project equipping public television stations to help deliver geo-targeted emergency messages to mobile devices has reached an important ...Quest project hones focus on sustainability, hunts for new partner stations
Quest, KQED’s multimedia science journalism and education project, is seeking more public media reporting partners.WBUR, Slate partner on personal-health podcast
Boston’s WBUR has joined Slate in producing a six-episode personal-health podcast, The Checkup.Online resource PBS LearningMedia registers more than 1 million users
PBS LearningMedia, a digital classroom resource for K–12 educators, topped more than 1 million registered users this month. Operated through a partnership ...
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