More sites related to public broadcasting

• Media and journalism organizations
• Festivals and awards competitions
• Media access for impaired audiences
• Lists of media links
• FCC
• Media activists and critics
• Pubcasters' blogs, Flickr pages and personal sites
• International broadcasting
• Broadcast history and archives
• Academia — broadcast and film education
• Media engineering and technology
• Media periodicals and websites
• Webcams

Media and journalism organizations

• American Society of Cinematographers
• Asian American Journalists Association
• Association of Capitol Reporters and Editors — organizer of the annual Capitolbeat conference
• Association for Women in Communication — formerly WICI (Women in Communication)
• American Women in Radio and Television
• Audio Publishers Association — audio books trade group
• BDA International — Broadcast Designers Association
• Directors Guild of America
• Institute for Interactive Journalism, University of Maryland, College Park
• International Center for Journalists
• Investigative Reporters and Editors
• Mandy's International Film and TV Production Directory — freelancers available around the world
• Minorities in Broadcasting Training Program
• National Association of Black Journalists
• National Association of Broadcasters
• National Association of Hispanic Journalists
• National Association of Science Writers
• NATPE — National Association of Television Program Executives
• National Cable Television Association
• National Lesbian & Gay Journalists Association
• National Press Club, Washington, D.C.
• Native American Journalists Association
• Pew Center for Civic Journalism, University of Maryland
• Producers Guild of America, of all things
• Promax International — association of broadcast promotion specialists
• Radio-Television News Directors Association
• Society of Environmental Journalists
• Society of Professional Journalists
• South Asian Journalists Association
• Traffic Directors Guild of America
• Women in Film
• Writers Guild of America

Festivals and awards competitions

• Annie Awards, International Animated Film Society
• Banff World Television Festival, Alberta, Canada
• CINE — organizers of the Golden Eagle Film and Video Competition
• Emmys, primetime — Academy of Television Arts and Sciences, Hollywood
• Emmys, daytime, news and regional — National Television Academy, New York
• Environmental Film Festival, Washington, DC — American University
• Gabriel Awards — Unda USA, part of the International Catholic Association for Radio and Television
• INPUT — U.S. secretariat for annual program screening conferences for public television producers around the world
• MIP-TV — annual international program market at Cannes in the spring. Also: MIPCOM — a similar market at Cannes in the fall
• Monte-Carlo Television Festival, Monaco (June/July)
• Prix Italia (late September)
• Prix Jeunesse International, Munich — children's television festival
• Sundance Film Festival
• Webby Awards, International Academy of Digital Arts and Sciences
• Other awards are given by media and journalism organizations listed above

Media access for impaired audiences

• International Association of Audio Information Services — formerly National Association of Radio Reading Services, largely for print-handicapped audiences
• Radiio reading services direcctory compiled by IAAIS
• WGBH Media Access Group — parent of CPB/WGBH National Center for Accessible Media, Caption Center and Descriptive Video Service
• National Captioning Institute — promulgator of closed-captioning technology and provider of captioning services
• CaptionMax Inc., New York, Washington, Burbank, Minneapolis
• FCC information on closed captioning for the hearing-impaired and video description for the sight-impaired
• Inventors: Closed Captioning on About.com

Lists of media links

• NewsLink, extensive list of broadcast and print sites
• TV Link Film & Television Website Archive — TV shows, U.S. and overseas broadcasters, film festivals

Federal Communications Commission

• FCC (Federal Communications Commission) and its:
  • Broadcast station statistics as of Sept. 30, 2001
  • Digital television
  • Electronic Comment Filing System — search for comments in FCC proceedings (you need docket number and Acrobat software)
  • E-Rate telecom services discounts for education
  • Media Bureau
  • Finding people at the FCC — or downloading the FCC phone book

Media activists and critics

• Benton Foundation — and its Communication Policy Project
• Center for Digital Democracy, headed by Jeff Chester
• Center for Media and Public Affairs
• Center for the Study of Popular Culture — conservative group headed by David Horowitz that led the right-wing critique of public broadcasting
• Citizens for Independent Public Broadcasting — lobby against dependence on corporate funding
• FAIR (Fairness & Accuracy in Reporting) — a progressive media watchdog group
• Filmmakers for Conservation
• Free Press — public-interest media policy membership group founded by media historian Robert McChesney
• GLAAD (Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation) — media watchdog group
• Listeners for MusicAmerica — fans of the program canceled by WGBH-FM
• Media Access Project — progressive public-interest law firm headed by Andrew Schwartzman that has been active for years in FCC and other media issues
• Media Alliance, San Francisco
• MediaChannel — compilation of progressive news and commentary about media
• MediaShift — Mark Glaser's blog about new media on PBS.org
• Minority Media and Telecommunications Council — advocate for minority ownership and employment in media
• NewsWatch — media news and criticism from the Center for Media and Public Affairs
• NPR Check — anonymous blog from Urbana, Ill., "monitoring right-wing, pro-government and corporate bias" on NPR news
• Pacifica-related links (several are quite out of date)
  • Committee to Remove the Pacifica Board
  • Concerned Friends of WBAI
  • Confidential — commentary by a member of the KPFA local station board
  • Houston Committee for People's Radio
  • KPFK Coalition for Justice
  • Local Advisory Boards
  • North Bay for KPFA
  • Pacifica Diversity Campaign
  • People's Radio
  • Save Pacifica
  • WBAI Justice and Unity Campaign
  • ZNet's coverage of the conflict
• Station-centered activist groups
  • BoycottWBEZ.com — listeners protest the Chicago broadcaster's decision to drop music programming
  • Keep WYSO Local — protesting cuts in local jazz and folk programming at the Yellow Springs, Ohio, station
  • KXCI Democracy Initiative — governance of KXCI-FM in Tucson, Arix.
  • Public Radio & TV Stations in Utah — critical blog by attorney Roberto Antonio Eder
  • Save Detroit Radio — listeners of Detroit's WDET-FM demand the station restore locally programmed music
  • SaveWNYC — protesting elimination of classical music programming at the New York station

Pubcasters' blogs and personal sites

Blogs

• Ernesto Aguilar / Rolas de Aztlan — p.d. of Pacifica's KPFT-FM in Houston
• Jonathan Ahl — news director of WCBU, Peoria, Ill., and PRNDI officer
• Kurt Andersen — novelist, commentator and host of Studio 360
• Bill Baker — c.e.o. and former president of Thirteen/WNET in New York
• John Barth / Now Cough — John Barth, managing director of the Public Radio Exchange
• Ken A. Bode — CPB ombudsman, journalism professor at DePauw University, former PBS host and network correspondent
• Andy Carvin's Waste of Bandwidth — senior product manager for online communities at NPR
• Robert X. Cringely / I, Cringely — analysis of high-tech developments, PBS.org
• DEIdea Lounge — from Development Exchange Inc.
• Andrew D. Collar / Digital TV Conversion for the Cotlar Household and Other Musings on Digital TV — associate general counsel for America's Public Television Stations
• Mike Feder / The Feder Files — essays and reviews by monologuist and program host on New York's WBAI-FM
• Adam Felber / Fanatical Apathy — Wait, Wait ... Don't Tell Me! panelist
• Bob Garfield — Bob Garfield, co-host of NPR's On the Media and columnist for Advertising Age
• Michael Getler — PBS ombudsman
• Mark Glaser / MediaShift — about new media for PBS.org
• Dennis Haarsager / Technology360 — g.m. of Northwest Public Radio and KWSU/KTNW-TV in Pullman, Wash.
• Betsy Harman / Betsy's Blog — development consultant and advisor to the Development Exchange Inc.
• Stephen Hill / Spatial Relations — producer of Hearts of Space
• Laurence Jarvik — conservative critic of public broadcasting
• Christopher Lydon — Open Source host
• Jonathan Menjivar — independent producer
• Jonathan Mitchell / ear crack — independent producer
• Todd Mundt / Converge — director of content and media, Iowa Public Radio (and former NPR talk host) blogs about technology, pubcasting and personal productivity
• Eric Nuzum — author and program and acquisitions manager for NPR
• Dean Olsher / The Next Best Thing — Dean Olsher, host of public radio's The Next Big Thing
• Open Source Broadcasting — several pubcasters work "to facilitate sharing of produced content and content elements between local and national producers for online publishing"
• ptvGuy — by a web designer for Southern Oregon PTV and KIXE-TV in Redding, Calif.
• Public Broadcast Musings — anonymous group blog
• Public Radio Slave — anonymous public radio station employee blogs about fielding calls from listeners
• Steve Robinson — senior v.p. and g.m. of WFMT-FM in Chicago
• Ben Roe / Ben's Blog: A Day at the RoeDeo — media consultant and producer, former NPR music chief
• Jake Shapiro / Obligatory Blogatorium — executive director of the Public Radio Exchange
• Julie Shapiro / lissenup — managing director of the Third Coast International Audio Festival
• Terence Smith — special correspondent for the NewsHour and former media reporter and senior producer for the show
• Mike Soper / Rare Medium — fundraising consultant (Team Soper) and former PBS v.p.
• Kate Sullivan — former Pop Vultures host blogs about music and life
• John Sutton / RadioSutton — public radio consultant
• Bruce Warren / Some Velvet Blog — p.d. at Philadelphia's WXPN-FM, blogs and shares music
• Keith Weston / Art of Darkness/Deeper into Music — producer and webmaster at WUNC-FM in Chapel Hill, N.C.

Flickr pages

• All Songs Considered — NPR's web-only music show
• John Barth — managing director of the Public Radio Exchange
• Andy Carvin — senior project manager for online communities at NPR
• Tim Eby — chair of the NPR Board and radio station manager at WOSU in Columbus, Ohio
• Brendan Greeley — blogger-in-chief at Open Source
• Jonathan Menjivar — associate producer with Fresh Air
• Todd Mundt — chief content officer at Michigan Public Media in Ann Arbor
• Open Source — public radio show
• Robert Paterson — consultant who engineered NPR's New Realities process
• Public Radio Exchange
• Jake Shapiro — executive director of the Public Radio Exchange
• Spokane Public Radio, Washington
• JJ Sutherland — NPR producer
• Andrew Walsh — producer of The Front Porch on New Hampshire Public Radio
• WFMU-FM, Jersey City, N.J.
• WXDU-FM, Duke University, Durham, N.C.
• WYEP, Pittsburgh

Other personal sites

• Blues and Jazz Sounds — web page of Bob Putignano, host of Sounds of Blue on WFDU-FM in Teaneck, N.J.
• Bob Boilen — All Things Considered director and All Songs Considered host shares his own music
• Box Set Authentic — musical collective that includes NPR's Rick Karr; Karr also pitches a pubTV show at TechnoPop
• Oscar Brand — folksinger, Sesame Street creator and WNYC host
• Paul Brown — NPR newscaster, reporter and old-time musician
• Alan Chartock/The Berkshire Ramblers — executive director of WAMC-FM, Albany, N.Y., and sometime banjo player
• Chris Douridas — deejay and former music director at KCRW-FM in Santa Monica, Calif.
• David Garland — musician and WNYC host
• Geoffrey P. Gaudreault — senior web designer for NPR
• David Giovannoni — influential audience researcher in public radio, now retired
• Handemonium — puppets by Barry Gordemer, writer, producer and director for NPR's Morning Edition
• HandleySail.com: The Voyage of Windbird — Mark Handley, retired g.m. of New Hampshire Public Radio, documents his sailboat trip around the world
• Dale Hobson — poetry and a blog from the web manager of North Country Public Radio in Canton, N.Y.
• Ellen Kushner — host of WGBH's Sound and Spirit
• Matthew Lasar — Pacifica historian
• BJ Leiderman — composer of theme songs for public radio shows
• Andrew Morrell — programmer for NPR, Michigan Radio and others
• Christopher O'Riley — pianist, host of public radio's From the Top
• Cash Peters — Marketplace contributor
• Charles Pierce — writer and Wait, Wait ... Don't Tell Me! panelist
• Bill Radke — co-host of public radio's Weekend America
• Nora Raum — attorney and NPR newscaster
• Jay Ungar and Molly Mason — hosts of a monthly folk music show on WAMC-FM, Albany, and performers of music for Ken Burns films
• The XPN All About the Music Blog — for the on-air and programming staff at Philadelphia's WXPN-FM

International broadcasting

• Australian Broadcasting Corp.
• Association for International Broadcasting — the trade association of the cross-border broadcasting industry
• British Broadcasting Corp.
• Canadian Broadcasting Corp.
• PublicBroadcasting.ca — group blog about strengthening "the independent and emerging Canadian voice"
• Caribbean Broadcasting Union — the association of broadcasters in the Caribbean region
• Channel 4, United Kingdom
• Commonwealth Broadcasting Union — the association of broadcasters in former British colonies
• European Broadcasting Union — the association of major European broadcasters
• Granada Media International Distribution, United Kingdom
• INPUT— the annual international public television screening conference and its links about public broadcasting overseas
• International Telecommunications Union — the United Nations agency that oversees broadcasting
• ITV network, United Kingdom
• National Film Board of Canada
• North American Broadcasters Association — the ITU-recognized body, based in Toronto, that represents U.S., Canadian and Mexican networks
• Public Broadcasters International
• TVOntario — Canada's largest independent educational broadcaster and a major instructional program distributor
• World Association of Community Radio Broadcasters — AMARC [E-mail]
• World Radio Network — London-based satellite broadcaster that relays NPR and PRI programs as well as non-U.S. national radio services

Broadcast history, museums and archives

• Black Film Center Archive at Indiana University
• Encyclopedia of Television — Horace Newcomb's 1997 edition, online at Museum of Broadcast Communications, Chicago
• The Cable Center (National Cable Television Center and Museum) — (Denver area)
• Library of American Broadcasting (formerly the Broadcast Pioneers Library) — University of Maryland, College Park
• Museum of Broadcast Communications (Chicago)
• Museum of Television & Radio (New York and Los Angeles)
• National Public Broadcasting Archives — with descriptions of much of their collection at the University of Maryland, College Park
• Preserving Digital Public Television — a project funded by the Library of Congress
• Public Broadcasting PolicyBase — key documents in the field
• Television History — engineer Tom Genova's site with emphasis on receivers
• TV Dawn — Scottish engineer Don McLean's site about very early mechanical TV and disc recording developed in Britain

Academia — media studies

• AFI Online, from the American Film Institute
• Broadcast Education Association — college-level professors of broadcasting (new web address)
• Center for Social Media, American University, Washington, D.C.
• Freedom Forum — Free!, the website of the former Gannett Foundation
• Media Resources Center, University of California, Berkeley
• MediaStudies.Com
• Poynter Institute for Media Studies, St. Petersburg, Fla.

Media technology and engineering

• American Federation of Television and Radio Artists — union that represents NPR's on-air talent and others in the biz
• American Society of Cinematographers — publisher of American Cinematographer magazine
• Association of FCC Consulting Engineers
• Audio Engineering Society
• ETV Cookbook — How-to guide to enhanced (interactive) television, site produced by public TV's Local Enhancement Collaborative
• EU Online — NPR's Journal of Public Radio Technology
• The Guild of Television Cameramen — an international group based in Britain
• National Association of Broadcast Employees and Technicians (NABET) — major technical union
• NPR Labs
• Society of Broadcast Engineers
• Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers

Media periodicals and websites

British media

• BroadcastNow — from Broadcast Magazine
• ProgrammeNews — website listing British TV programming, subscription only

Canadian media

• Broadcaster Magazine, Toronto

Journalism

• American Journalism Review
• Columbia Journalism Review
• Editor & Publisher — newspaper industry
• Romenesko — the Poynter Institute's weblog, gleanings from and about media
• JournalismNet — using the Internet for research

Media

• Hollywood Reporter
• MediaWeek — media for marketing and advertising
• Variety
• Warren Communications News — Communications Daily and sister newsletters

Media technology

• Broadcast Engineering
• Electronic Design — design of things electronic
• Spectrum — award-winning magazine from the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
• Television Broadcast
• TV Technology
• Video Systems

Radio

• Billboard — about the recording and radio industries
• FMQB — Friday Morning Quarterback Album Report
• M Street Journal — subscription only
• Radio and Records
• Radio Magazine — tech-heavy radio trade magazine
• Radio World — tech-heavy trade tabloid

Television

• Broadcasting & Cable Online
• Television Week
• TV Guide Online

Video programming and films

• Animation World News
• Doculink — site for documentary filmmakers
• Filmmaker magazine
• indieWIRE — site about independent filmmaking
• KidScreen — magazine about children's programming
• Real Screen — magazine about documentaries and nonfiction programming

Webcams

Public radio

• KCRW, Santa Monica, Calif. Studio Cam
• WQED-FM, Pittsburgh, Byham studio in Theater Square, downtown
• WXDU-FM, Duke University, Durham, N.C., DJ Cam

Public TV

• This Old House, Cambridge house site
• WGBH headquarters construction, Brighton area of Boston
• Dakotacams, including Mt. Rushmore, courtesy of South Dakota Public Broadcasting

Other countries

• BBC, London Radio Studio 2 and other London sites

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