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Ibrahim Gonzalez, WBAI personality and producer, dies at 57

Posted: June, 07, 2013
By Andrew Lapin

Ibrahim Gonzalez, a longtime producer and on-air personality at the Pacifica network’s WBAI-FM in New York, died in his sleep June 3. He was 57. Continue reading →

William Miles, documentary filmmaker

Posted: May, 30, 2013
By Andrew Lapin

William Miles, an Oscar-nominated filmmaker and chronicler of the black experience, died May 12 in Queens, N.Y., from uncertain causes. Continue reading →

Louis Cook, Native American broadcaster

Posted: May, 29, 2013
By Andrew Lapin

Louis Cook, a longtime host and producer for North Country Public Radio in Canton, N.Y., and a mentor to Native American broadcasters, died May 13 in Pine Ridge, S.D., of complications from a car accident. He was 66. Continue reading →

Jane Henson, puppeteer and philanthropist

Posted: April, 16, 2013
By Andrew Lapin

Jane Nebel Henson, a puppeteer and philanthropist who was the widow of Jim Henson and founder of The Jim Henson Legacy, died in her Connecticut home April 2 after a long battle with cancer. She was 79. Continue reading →

Ford Foundation hires Mertes, Howland and Marshall sign on at NETA Business Center, and more . . .

Posted: June, 11, 2013
By Dru Sefton

Cara Mertes, the incoming head of the Ford Foundation’s JustFilms, previously served as executive director of American Documentary Inc., a job that includes oversight of POV, one of PBS’s showcases for independent film. Continue reading →

Chacón fills new content position at WBUR, OPB hires new engineering v.p., and more . . .

Posted: May, 29, 2013
By Dru Sefton

WBUR-FM in Boston has hired Richard Chacón as executive director of news content, and promoted Tom Melville to news director. Chacón takes a newly created position with responsibility for managing all local news content produced for radio and the web. Continue reading →

Roth retires after 45 years, Leonard takes helm at NET, and more . . .

Posted: May, 21, 2013
By Dru Sefton

KUOW President Wayne Roth, a former NPR Board chair and past recipient of CPB’s Murrow Award honoring outstanding contributions to public radio, will retire in September. During his 45-year career in public broadcasting, Roth provided strategic leadership to public radio on both the local and national levels. Continue reading →

Everhart promoted to Current managing editor

Posted: May, 01, 2013
By Current staff

Karen Everhart, a media reporter and editor who has covered public broadcasting at Current for more than two decades, has been promoted to managing editor. She joined Current in 1991 and has reported on the programming, politics and funding of both the public television and radio systems, as well as the growth of nonprofit news organizations specializing in investigative journalism and local news coverage. Prior to her March 2012 interim appointment, she was Current’s senior editor covering public radio and digital media. Continue reading →

Pat Perini, pubTV producer

Posted: April, 05, 2013
By Andrew Lapin

Patricia “Pat” Perini, a public television producer, director, writer and production executive for more than three decades, died Feb. 21 after a long battle with leukemia. She was 68. Continue reading →

WXXI's web-first series on sculpture project captures drama of artistic process

Posted: June, 14, 2013
By Dru Sefton

In a first for the station, Rochester’s WXXI has premiered a series on the Web, following sculptor Albert Paley as he creates 13 works of public art. Continue reading →

Stations fear exclusion from show production as PBS shifts strategy

Posted: June, 13, 2013
By Elizabeth Jensen

When PBS unveiled its fall slate of primetime programs during its recent conference in Miami Beach, Fla., in May, many of the featured titles were notably missing one thing: presenting or producing stations that typically help shepherd series through the PBS editorial process. Continue reading →

Author of Martha Speaks sues WGBH in dispute over ancillary revenues

Posted: June, 12, 2013
By Ben Mook

The author and illustrator of the book that inspired the PBS Kids series Martha Speaks is claiming that producing station WGBH owes her thousands in unpaid royalties after misleading her about ancillary revenues generated from the series. Continue reading →

APM series examines exoneration in the U.S.

Posted: June, 07, 2013
By Graham Vyse

“After Innocence: Exoneration in America” provides an in-depth look at wrongful imprisonment in the U.S. Continue reading →

Ready to Learn builds on digital-learning push with new station grants

Posted: April, 17, 2013
By Andrew Lapin

The Ready to Learn program backing educational media and outreach for children ages 2 to 8 is making digital learning through community engagement a priority, a change that will affect which stations participate in the program. Continue reading →

Stations continue StateImpact without NPR

Posted: May, 29, 2013
By Mike Janssen

NPR provided training and support to 17 participating stations, but has dropped plans to expand StateImpact to all 50 states. Continue reading →

NPR cancels Talk of the Nation, pairs with WBUR in bid to bolster middays

Posted: April, 03, 2013
By Ben Mook and Mike Janssen

After more than two decades on the air, NPR’s Talk of the Nation will come to an end in June to make way for the newsmag Here & Now. Continue reading →

TPT launches Open Air, a new brand aimed at engaging young viewers

Posted: May, 21, 2013
By Andrew Lapin

Twin Cities Public Television describes its new Open Air programming and promotional initiative as “tailor-made to meet the demands of a new Minnesota public TV audience.” Continue reading →

This Old House follows homeowners still recovering from Superstorm Sandy

Posted: May, 20, 2013
By Dru Sefton

Starting in October, This Old House on PBS will present a special eight-episode series about three sets of homeowners who are struggling to rebuild after destruction wrought by Superstorm Sandy in October 2012. Continue reading →

Long Island psychic finds radio audience eager for forecasts

Posted: April, 22, 2013
By Mike Janssen

Listeners to WPPB in Long Island, N.Y., can listen to Morning Edition or the BBC Newshour if they want to know what’s happening now. But if they’re looking for an inkling of what’s going to happen, they can ask McMahon. Continue reading →

“If you can’t make it important, it’s probably not worth doing”

Posted: May, 17, 2013
Interview by Karen Everhart and Dru Sefton

In an extended interview with Current, Frontline creator David Fanning recalls how he came to work at Boston’s WGBH more than three decades ago, and how the show is positioning itself for the future. Continue reading →

Planet Money crowdfunder soars, PRI campaign falls short of goal

Posted: May, 16, 2013
By Andrew Lapin

Two of public radio’s three biggest distributors launched major crowdfunding experiments in the past month, with wildly different results. Continue reading →

PBS acquires new British drama to anchor Sunday nights

Posted: May, 15, 2013
By Dru Sefton

Aiming to build on its successful strategy to boost viewing on Sunday nights, PBS acquired a new hit drama from the BBC, Last Tango in Halifax. Continue reading →

With Digital Studios, PBS tailors programs for a web-only audience

Posted: April, 01, 2013
By Andrew Lapin

In a bid to attract younger viewers who don't tune in to broadcast TV, PBS Digital Studios has cultivated a slate of online shows at a fraction of over-the-air production costs. The network promises its push into web video will help member stations, as well. Continue reading →

CPT's mobile venture to share revenues with PTV outlets

Posted: May, 13, 2013
By Andrew Lapin

Connecticut Public Television has joined with a digital media company in rolling out a new mobile platform that will offer digital downloads of children’s programs. Continue reading →

Planet Takeout offers menu of stories

Posted: May, 08, 2013
By Erica Sánchez-Vázquez

Although immersive media is a new concept for public media production, in the case of Planet Takeout the process began with traditional documentary filmmaking techniques. Over nine months, documentarian Val Wang and producer Kelly Creedon visited some 100 Chinese takeout restaurants. Continue reading →

Roger Ebert, film critic and pubTV icon, dead at 70

Posted: April, 04, 2013
By Andrew Lapin

Roger Ebert, the legendary film critic who got his television start on Chicago PBS station WTTW, died April 4 after a long battle with cancer. He was 70. “Everyone at WTTW is deeply saddened by the loss of Roger Ebert, whose courageous battle with cancer in recent years was an inspiration to us all,” WTTW President Dan Schmidt said in a statement. Continue reading →

Mapping the places where ‘music is made all the time’

Posted: April, 18, 2013
By Mike Janssen

The music world of Austin, Texas, is now being shared with a global audience thanks to Austin Music Map, a website developed by the city’s public radio station, KUT. Continue reading →

New talking point on Capitol Hill: PubTV's role in education

Posted: March, 15, 2013
By Andrew Lapin

Public television’s strongest case for preserving tax-based support for stations and CPB centers on informing political leaders about the full range of public-service work that stations deliver to local communities, particularly in the field of education, according to the field’s lead advocates in Washington, D.C. Continue reading →

Pubcasters win eight Peabody Awards for outstanding electronic media

Posted: April, 08, 2013
By Theodore Fischer

Pubmedia and independent producers win eight Peabody Awards including PBS, which won two, one for “Summer Pasture,”a documentary about nomadic Tibetan herders and Why Poverty?, a PBS series about income inequality Continue reading →

New alliance in Mile High City

Posted: February, 01, 2013
By Dru Sefton

The latest merger agreement from Denver combines three different breeds of public media — flagship pubTV station Rocky Mountain PBS, community-licensed jazz broadcaster KUVO-FM and investigative digital news outlet I-News Network — in a consolidation that aims to build strength through diversity. Continue reading →

Pubmedia-funded start-up accelerator Matter announces inaugural class

Posted: March, 06, 2013
By Andrew Lapin

The first start-up class of Matter, the media accelerator backed by Knight Foundation, KQED and the Public Radio Exchange, includes Localore partner Zeega. Continue reading →

GPB hires governor’s pick for plum job

Posted: December, 17, 2012
By Dru Sefton

When Georgia Gov. Nathan Deal recently approached Georgia Public Broadcasting’s top exec about appointing outgoing Senate Majority Leader Chip Rogers to lead the state network’s proposed initiative promoting economic development, GPB chief Teya Ryan agreed to make the hire. Continue reading →

Storytelling ‘pop-up’ Hear Here builds bridge from KALW to Oakland

Posted: March, 14, 2013
By Dawn Morgan

Hear Here launched last spring as an experiment testing new ways to collect and distribute hyperlocal stories. About twice a month on both sides of the San Francisco Bay, KALW producers pop into local libraries and set up an impromptu studio. Continue reading →

Pubcasting tackles dropout crisis

Posted: August, 20, 2012
By Dru Sefton

The massive American Graduate project is all about potential — the potential of students who stay in school to graduate, as well as the potential of public broadcasting stations to serve as community conveners. Continue reading →

News, game-ified and powered by the crowd

Posted: October, 10, 2012
By Andrew Lapin

Documentary filmmakers, code developers and public media executives are creating more interactive takes on the news in order to draw audiences into deeper experiences. Continue reading →

Pipeline 2013

Posted: October, 09, 2012
Compiled by Theodore Fischer

This year's Pipeline survey lists 120 television projects planned, underway, or completed for future seasons on public TV, beginning with Winter 2013. Continue reading →

Full speed ahead for Public Media Platform

Posted: December, 17, 2012
By Andrew Lapin

After two-plus years of planning and prototyping a shared hub providing easy access to digital content from across public media, partners in the Public Media Platform will begin building the new technical system next month. Continue reading →

Pubcaster, college, for-profit news all meld in Macon

Posted: September, 24, 2012
By Andrew Lapin

A partnership between a public radio station, a private university and a for-profit newspaper is beefing up local news coverage in Georgia’s fourth-largest city. Continue reading →

Winning members at their doors

Posted: December, 03, 2012
By Dru Sefton

One of the most promising new membership initiatives to come along for public television in years doesn’t involve phone banks, on-air pitches or premium packages. It’s door-to-door canvassing, the grass-rootsy technique for talking up causes and soliciting donations face-to-face. Continue reading →

Seeking the next $100 million

Posted: July, 09, 2012
Analysis by Mark Fuerst

A review of public stations’ financial data over the past 15 years shows that, despite their widely divergent revenue trajectories, public radio and television have both made great progress in implementing structural and cultural changes needed to pursue new revenues. Continue reading →

Nathan Shaw, DEI founding president, dies at 76

Posted: June 17, 2013

Nathan Shaw, the founding president of Development Exchange, Inc., and a public-radio fundraising pioneer, died May 29. He was 76. Continue reading →

Public TV shows garner 14 Daytime Emmys; Sesame Street scores six

Posted: June 17, 2013

Programs on public television received 13 creative arts honors and one broadcast statuette in Daytime Emmy Award ceremonies Friday and Sunday in Los Angeles. Continue reading →

The Future of Media Leadership: A Storify

Posted: June 17, 2013

Follow the conversation around the next generation of public media leaders with Current’s Storify of the June 14 forum. Continue reading →

WXXI’s web-first series on sculpture project captures drama of artistic process

Posted: June 14, 2013

In a first for the station, Rochester’s WXXI has premiered a series on the Web, following sculptor Albert Paley as he creates 13 works of public art. Continue reading →

DEI group unites public media’s young professionals

Posted: June 13, 2013

A group of young public media professionals who began meeting informally last year to network and share ideas has moved to step up its profile. Continue reading →

Futures Forum explores pubmedia’s leadership transition

Posted: June 13, 2013

Upcoming leadership changes in public media will be the focus of Friday’s Public Media Futures Forum in Washington, D.C., the latest in an ongoing series of conversations with luminaries in the field. Continue reading →

WBAI co-hosts, partners in life-coaching venture, die in apparent suicide

Posted: June 13, 2013

Lynne Rosen, 46, and John Littig, 48, a couple who co-hosted a self-help radio show on New York’s WBAI, were found dead June 3 in an apparent double suicide. A spokesperson for the New York Police Department confirmed that both had left suicide notes. Continue reading →

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