APM series examines exoneration in the U.S.
Posted: June, 07, 2013
By Graham Vyse
Journalism
Stations continue StateImpact without NPR
Posted: May, 29, 2013
By Mike Janssen
New alliance in Mile High City
Posted: February, 01, 2013
By Dru Sefton
News, game-ified and powered by the crowd
Posted: October, 10, 2012
By Andrew Lapin
Pubcaster, college, for-profit news all meld in Macon
Posted: September, 24, 2012
By Andrew Lapin
Life without CPB aid scary to LJC startups
Posted: July 11, 2011The seven Local Journalism Centers that launched with major support from CPB have suddenly found themselves on a short timeline to find ways to earn more of their keep. So far, CPB has committed only the two-year sums announced at … Continue reading
Life without CPB aid scary to Local Journalism Center startups
Posted: July 11, 2011The seven Local Journalism Centers that launched with major support from CPB have suddenly found themselves on a short timeline to find ways to earn more of their keep. So far, CPB has committed only the two-year sums announced at … Continue reading
StateImpact pilot begins scrutiny of government in eight states
Posted: July 11, 2011Pubcasters in three states have started airing reports and posting stories online as the first participants in StateImpact, a large-scale project spearheaded by NPR that could unite the member stations and the network for an unprecedented level of collaborative newsgathering. … Continue reading
Fanning quotes Friendly: public TV’s greatest right is to ‘rock the boat’ with journalism
Posted: June 14, 2011In 2011, as partisan critics attacked NPR, Frontline chief David Fanning urged public media to specialize in strong journalism. Fanning, who was accepting Quinnipiac University’s annual Fred Friendly First Amendment Award, quoted the famed CBS News producer: public TV’s “most precious right will be the right to rock the boat.” Continue reading
Georgia ramble turns exposé
Posted: June 13, 2011Ira Glass didn’t know what he was in for when he walked into the post office in the seaside burg of Brunswick, Ga., and asked the first person he met to name the most interesting character in town. Glass and … Continue reading
Cyberpirates to PBS: watch where you sail
Posted: June 13, 2011Software vulnerabilities, including an outdated operating system used by PBS.org, allowed the pirate band of hackers LulzSec to sail deep into the innards of the network’s main website over Memorial Day weekend. The marauders were retaliating for a Frontline documentary … Continue reading
Launch postponed for PBSnews.org
Posted: May 16, 2011PBS has postponed the rollout of an online news aggregation site called PBSnews.org that it had planned to start in January or February. … Plans for the news site had grown out of the PBS News and Public Affairs Initiative and a report filed almost two years ago by Tom Bettag, a network news veteran … Continue reading