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Ellen Goodman, a Rutgers law professor and Fellow at the Center for Social Media, submitted comments to the Federal Communications Commission on the development of a national broadband plan, according to the Center, at Americ (Read More)
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In an online chat with WashingtonPost.com readers, Vivian Schiller gives herself a B+ for her first 10 months as NPR president. "I've gotten a lot done, but not as much as I hope to over time!" she writes. Beyond the usual co (Read More)
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Stephen Moss, an online marketing executive with a background in print media, is the new president and c.e.o. of National Public Media, the New York-based corporate sponsorship firm representing public radio and television. H (Read More)
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Another report on the future of American journalism takes aim at public broadcasting for failing to develop the local news gathering capacity that would enable it to deliver on its mission to inform the public.The study, dist (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 (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 br (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. S (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 (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 organiz (Read More)
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"Right now the fire is the boss," a supervisor for the U.S. Forest Service tells an LA Times correspondent in this report on fire fighters' efforts to protect the communications center on Mt. Wilson. Meanwhile, KCET-TV in Los (Read More)
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CPB has granted nine pubTV stations a total of nearly $900,000 to create content on science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) that will be shared with the system and other educational organizations. Stations, their pro (Read More)
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CPB today announced funding for new statewide Ready to Learn projects. Six pubTV stations will work with state education agencies to provide early childhood education resources and services, according to a CPB statement. Fund (Read More)
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Public broadcasters are in the impressive mix of forward-thinkers this week at the Aspen Institute's fifth annual Ideas Festival. Here it is, only Day 1, and Frontline e.p. David Fanning had this great quote: "Public broadca (Read More)
PR 2.0:
Traditional influence has followed a systematic top-down process of developing and pushing “controlled” messages to audiences for decades, rooted in one-to-many, faceless broadcast campaigns.Personality wasn’t absent is certa (Read More)
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Phase I of the American Archive Pilot Program is about to begin. Oregon Public Broadcasting, overseeing the Archive project (Current, April 13) , has selected 25 pubcasting stations. Each will receive up to $10,000 to "locate (Read More)
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Jeff Clarke, a leader among pubcasting station executives during his 44 years in broadcasting, announced his plans to retire next June as president of Northern California Public Broadcasting. Since Clarke joined San Francisco (Read More)
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Qualcomm, looking to use analog channels for its MediaFLO mobile TV service after the digital transition, sent letters Jan. 19 to legislators asking stations in Boston, Miami, San Francisco and Houston to drop their signals o (Read More)