With Digital Studios, PBS tailors programs for a web-only audience
Posted: April, 01, 2013
By Andrew Lapin
Web/mobile content
Planet Takeout offers menu of stories
Posted: May, 08, 2013
By Erica Sánchez-Vázquez
Mapping the places where ‘music is made all the time’
Posted: April, 18, 2013
By Mike Janssen
Pubmedia-funded start-up accelerator Matter announces inaugural class
Posted: March, 06, 2013
By Andrew Lapin
Output: PBS’s first-ever Online Film Festival screens 20 short films, gilded applause for The Moth, public education through Indian humor, and more
Posted: February 27, 2012Partners in the project are the pubmedia minority consortia — the Center for Asian American Media, Latino Public Broadcasting, Native American Public Telecommunications, the National Black Programming Consortium and Pacific Islanders in Communication — as well as the Independent Television … 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
NPR sees new roles for Public Interactive
Posted: March 7, 2011NPR is proposing to give public stations more help in building and maintaining dynamic websites and mobile apps by reconfiguring its Boston-based tech services group, Public Interactive…. Continue reading
High stakes + direct access = full engagement
Posted: November 29, 2010Noel Gunther remembers the moment when he realized that public broadcasting had to get involved in traumatic brain injury education. It was 2001. Gunther was producing a segment for WETA’s documentary series Exploring Your Brain. He was interviewing hockey Hall … Continue reading
Schedule: web platform model by year’s end
Posted: June 21, 2010An NPR-led project this month officially launched planning for a joint Public Media Platform to put public radio and TV content on the Web and mobile devices. By year’s end it aims to create a “proof of concept” prototype…. Continue reading
Fanning on a ‘big bang’ moment for Frontline: bringing online depth to reporting
Posted: March 23, 2010David Fanning, e.p. of Frontline, discussed the WGBH program’s evolving use of the Web Aug. 23, 2010, in accepting the Goldsmith Career Award for Excellence in Journalism at Harvard University’s Joan Shorenstein Center on the Press, Politics and Public Policy. … Continue reading
Radio nets and PBS propose ‘public media platform’ based on API
Posted: March 1, 2010… National Public Radio requested CPB aid to begin technical and business planning of a shared web platform with American Public Media, Public Radio International, Public Radio Exchange and PBS….CPB is reviewing NPR’s proposal but Theriault predicts it will announce a grant within weeks…. Continue reading