More stories from 2010 and 2011
(to be indexed in Current's new website)
JOURNALISM
After hard year, Nightly Business Report investor brings in new management
Capitol News Connection: Closing of news bureau leaves regrets, questions
CNC chief exec Melinda Wittstock comments: Public media need to be more enterpreneur-friendly.
A second state news feed arises from Florida funding rift
News leaders draw hard line on employees’ public comments; two freelancers fired after publicly supporting Occupy Wall Street
On the beat in Juárez, you listen with your gut: a commentary by Mónica Ortiz Uribe
Two news competitors in deficit, so one buys the other in Buffalo
Moyers returns in January with weekly hour
A producer colleague cheers WNET for locally scheduling Moyers outside "the Friday night public affairs ghetto."
Life without CPB aid scary to Local Journalism Center startups
Georgia ramble turns exposé: This American Life tries serendipity to find stories
What the Northwest reporting hub can tell flocks of newcomers
StateImpact pilot begins scrutiny of government in 8 states
Launch postponed for PBSnews.org
Local news helps draw web traffic for San Diego site
Radio joins local probes, ruffles local feathers
As World Vision Report wraps up, staff seeks allies at WAMU, WUNC
Investigative project: What do statehouses, city halls do about corruption?
Public Insight Network: 40+ newsrooms use APM's source-finder
COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT
Rules of Engagement, a series from the Center for Media Engagement, Madison, Wis.
Part 1 of the series: New mindset requires new habits: listen, earn trust, partner-up
Part 2: Listen closely: What matters to your community — and to donors?
Part 3: Out the station’s door: Where you find
ideas rooted in your community
CONTENT, AS IT'S CALLED NOW
Sports: a real community that some public TV stations join
Conflicting appraisals: Minutes on Antiques Roadshow are pay enough for some
9/11: That devastating morning, then 10 years of certainties and confusion
Musicians’ stories join their music in Sound Tracks for PBS
Not In Our Town: ‘Public media at its best’ seeks civility
KQED’s Quest becomes a ‘hub’ for stations’ science reporting
After KUOW split, weather forecaster pops up crosstown
Arts try out for PBS slot on Fridays
PBSd venture and new MHz channel aim to export public TV
Futurestates tales stream out to laptop audience that are here today
A hometown ear, hearing both sides: Trey Kay looks back at a Culture War battle
PUBLIC MEDIA'S FUTURE, EXPANSION, CONTRACTION
A year after KCET left PBS: PubTV in L.A. not yet a case of win-win-win-win
Moyers calls for a convention to remake public media system, 2011
Iowa Public Radio buys 2 signals, may shuffle formats
Deals with schools give Rhode Island two new pubradio signals
Marfa Public Radio: An oasis for the ears in Trans-Pecos
Alaskans okay joint TV schedule but balk at more togetherness
MORE STORIES
Rochester indie-movie venue now operated by WXXI
PBS's successor to the Neighborhood: Meet the cub of the tiger of the house that Fred built
To weigh interrupting promos, PBS will talk with producers, test viewers
Flow plan would push spots deeper into PBS hours; PBS extends consultation before moving toward test
To: PBS. Re: Interruptions. Summary: No! No! No!
PBS proposes to interrupt primetime shows with promo and underwriting credits.
Making the most of what PBS can do. Though Kerger also lays out what the network can't do in '12.
‘Required’ station fees for web services are just a ‘proposal,’ says NPR Board chair
Cyberpirates warn PBS: watch where you sail
Changes at Maine documentary school worry its devoted alumni
The state of broadcasting on this side of the Atlantic still dismays Europeans
Editorial integrity panel says the time's right to think about principles
TECHNOLOGY
Authorities probe for arson in Little Rock transmitter fire
NPR sees new roles for Public Interactive: more than a site builder
Best practices in digital television from the PBS Quality Group
Broadband rising on Native agenda
FCC plan could give LPFM applications an edge over FM translators
Room for hundreds more LPFM stations in urban areas, FCC calculates,
PEOPLE
People: New V-me chief veteran producer from V-me's Madrid-based majority owner
Albany gets a lot of Chartock, but how much is too much?
Western stations ask for new election to fill McTaggart’s seat on NPR Board
APM picks seasoned No. 2, Jon McTaggart, as successor to founder
Gladstone's The Influencing Machine: A comic book to explain media? The scene's so sad that it's funny
Renaming the House That Jack (and Terry) Built
Henry Becton, Honorary CBE: Anglophiles may now swoon
Escape of the Grannies, 2011:: Chicago producers' tour runs into Egyptian revolution
DEVELOPMENT
Saying ‘thank you’ isn’t just polite — it could raise millions more
If you pay commissions, make them incentives for team behavior — commentary by Jim Lewis
‘Restricted unrestricted’: a productive new flavor of grants at KPBS — commentary by Jim Lewis
New channel in Pittsburgh: All-pledge, all the time
WBUR finds ROI for stores in underwriting
Entrepreneur and KCET ink $50 million production and distribution deal
Still learning more about pledge after all these years
ReelChanges site ends its tryout of crowd-funding for producers
KQED reward to early donors: the power to ‘turn pledge off’
Pledge Pipeline: Current's first survey of upcoming specials for public TV's on-air drives
Into the gig economy: Let's not dream about bigger staffs and more taxpayer funding
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