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NPR has invited 60 “thought leaders” in digital media and technology to share their ideas for its future as a news organization. The first-ever NPR Digital Think In convenes at frog design in San Francisco this Friday, Oct. 9. The schedule includes a series of break-outs exploring various aspects of news gathering, the role (Read More)
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The Federal Communications Commission may "in the near future" take up the issue of the location of PEG (public, educational and government) channels, reports Broadcasting & Cable. The FCC received several petitions from the Alliance for Community Media, which is a national association of local cable-access programmer (Read More)
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A blue-ribbon panel, the Knight Commission on the Information Needs of Communities in a Democracy, today issued its final report. In it, the 17-member group contends that "public broadcasting needs to move quickly toward a broader vision of public service media, one that is more local, more inclusive, and more interactive" (Read More)
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William F. Baker, president emeritus of WNET, writes in a Weekly Standard opinion piece (via the CBS News site) that the way forward toward a vital public media is through existing pubcasting entities. Baker, the Bernard L. Schwartz Professor and Journalist-in-Residence at Fordham University, notes that for more than half a (Read More)
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NPR.org A listener questioned Scott Simon's pay after it was included in a recent Washington Post survey. "There are a few other people in public radio who earn more, both at weekly and daily programs," says the "Weekend Edition Saturday" host. "Most everybody in commercial broadcasting earns a lot more." > NPR CEO Schiller (Read More)
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The Knight Commission on the Information Needs of Communities in a Democracy will present its findings Friday before a plethora of federal officials, such as Federal Communications Commission Chairman Julius Genachowski and U.S. Chief Technology Officer Aneesh Chopra, and media dignitaries including NPR President Vivian Sch (Read More)
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There's been a split within the African American Public Radio Consortium over the Michael Eric Dyson Show, a midday talker launched in April by the consortium and Baltimore's WEAA. CPB awarded a $505,000 grant to WEAA on Sept. 15 to produce a show with Dyson, but it's unclear whether Dyson is on board or consortium member (Read More)
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Twenty pubcasters are included in The Chronicle of Philanthropy's executive compensation survey for the nation's top foundations and charities. Figures reflected end of fiscal 2008. The Chronicle's survey examined 325 organizations that are among those raising the most money from private sources in 2008, as well as grant ma (Read More)
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Ari Shapiro, NPR justice correspondent for four years, and Emilio Delgado, who’s been “Luis” on Sesame Street for 38, were guest singers with Thomas Lauderdale’s retro mini-orchestra Pink Martini at the Hollywood Bowl Sept. 19. Delgado performed “Sing a Song,” the Carpenters hit by Sesame Street songwriter Joe Raposo, with (Read More)
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Another commercial classical station will join the pubcasting fold under a deal announced yesterday by WGBH. The Boston pubcaster is acquiring WCRB-FM, a 27,000-watt station that draws a weekly audience of some 340,000 listeners, from Nassau Broadcasting Partners of New Jersey.The purchase allows WGBH-FM to shift its music (Read More)
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After being drawn into a scandal over alleged predatory loan practices of Wells Fargo, talk show host Tavis Smiley has cut all ties to the financial company.Smiley, who hosts shows on both PBS and Public Radio International, began working with Wells Fargo in 2005 as a speaker at wealth-building seminars for African American (Read More)
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StoryCorps on NPR, which has archived oral histories from more than 50,000 participants, is kicking off StoryCorps Historias in a Washington, D.C., event tomorrow. StoryCorps calls it "a groundbreaking initiative to record and preserve the stories of Latinos across the United States" (Current, Dec. 22, 2008). Partners in th (Read More)
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Stations uncovered forgotten doc footage on several civil rights movements as they prepared for the preservation phase of the CPB-funded American Archives pilot project. Included were recordings of movement leaders Langston Hughes, Thurgood Marshall, Gloria Steinem and Harvey Milk as well as the Ku Klux Klan, some on 16mm f (Read More)
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Public Radio Exchange has partnered to create a site for sharing community web and radio reports across borders. Its collaborator, the International Center for Journalists, yesterday announced the two-year project funded by the McCormick Foundation. ICFJ trainers will work on radio and web skills with journalists for partic (Read More)
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Some pledge drives are going pretty darned well, reports The Washington Post. At D.C.'s WAMU, donations are running 50 percent higher than last year and membership is up 53 percent. "We're getting astounding numbers," Walt Gillette, WAMU's director of individual giving, told the paper. Maryland Public Television in Baltimor (Read More)
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