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Idaho Public Television needs funding for capital equipment purchases, General Manager Peter Morrill told the Joint Finance-Appropriations Committee of the state legislature Friday (Jan. 27). The network has not received its usual state appropriation f
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Over at the PBS MediaShift IdeaLab, Zeega's Kara Oehler reflects on the project's upcoming collaborations with Localore producers:
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A longer version of this post first appeared on MIT's Center for Civic Media blog.
In our ongoing quest to trace the outline of the phrase "civic media," we began the Center for Civic Media's 2012 lunch series with Paul Wright, editor and co-founder o
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By Joy Loving, Station Products & Innovation Welcome to the Weekly PBS Interactive Station Products & Innovation Debrief, which is designed to give PBS stations a rundown of product updates and opportunities announced this week on ou
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Obsessive Downton Abbey fans are turning into programming pirates, reports Salon, poking around in what it calls "some dark corner of the Internet" to find episodes that have already run on Britain's ITV but not yet on Masterpiece. When the writer of t
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The numbers are staggering. Apple Inc. is now the most valuable company in the U.S. The company made more than $13 billion in profit last quarter, more than Google made in revenues. According to TUAW, the iPhone by itself, in three months, brought in m
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By Joy Loving, Station Products and InnovationIn the fall of 2011, seven stations were awarded the annual PBS KIDS GO! Grant. Each of these stations created modules for children that could be adapted by other PBS stations and filled a gap in content th
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Dennis Adkins, West Virginia Public Broadcasting executive director, told state legislators that state funding reductions and loss of corporate underwriting have forced the station to make programming cuts, reports the Charleston Gazette. Speaking to l
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Has KPCC "punked" fellow pubradio station KPFK with a "billboard prank"? So says an item on OC Weekly's Navelgazing blog written by Gustavo Arellano, a reporter for the paper who has also appeared on both stations in southern California. KPCC, an NPR m
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he best stories across the web on media and technology, curated by Lily Leung.
1. Twitter to block tweets on case-by-case basis (CNET)
2. Twitter faces censorship backlash (paidContent)
3. Google spent almost $2 billion on acquisitions i
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The Public Broadcasting Management Association (PBMA) on Thursday (Jan. 26) announced a full rebranding of the organization, which serves financial, human resources, legal, information systems and administrative managers of public TV and radio stations
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As more news organizations move toward web content systems that were originally intended for single-person bloggers, the need for a more dynamic tool has becoming increasingly apparent. The New York Times recognizes this and has launched some code that
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Breaking into the literary dream that is New York magazine means you’ve got to offer something new, an interesting angle or exclusive access into a little-known subcultural scene in the city (or anywhere else in the world).
“A freelance pit
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Mark Ramsey suggests it may be time to change what local public radio stations do, their relationship to NPR and how money flows into and through the system.
In today's blog post, Ramsey suggests there is a need for increased public service by station
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Our January Editors’ Roundtable looked at “After the battle, Mike Sword’s war within,” a story by Roanoke Times reporter Beth Macy about the death of an Air Force veteran in Virginia after service in Iraq. A former Nieman Fellow, Macy has als
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Every Friday I post links to a few of the blog posts that I read during the week that I found interesting and insightful.
Included in this week’s round-up is discussion about how to build a social media command center; why Facebook isn’t an ech
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Are comments on Facebook pages fair game to be used by journalists in their stories without permission?
That's the question posed by Michigan Radio News Director Vince Duffy in an essay on the Radio Television Digital News Association website.
He
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Welcome to the 35th episode of "The Mediatwits," the weekly audio podcast from MediaShift. The co-hosts are MediaShift's Mark Glaser and Dorian Benkoil, who is filling in for Rafat Ali. Once again, Apple dominates the headlines, this time for quarterly
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So much can be said in 160 characters. As we've started to look at tailoring FrontlineSMS software for journalists, we've realized just how much potential there is to use text messaging as a news source.
As FrontlineSMS's community support coordinato
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WPSA Turns Back License to FCC
Over the winter holidays, Paul Smith’s College in The Adirondack Park in New York sent a letter to the FCC asking that its class D FM license for college radio station WPSA be cancelled.
The December 12, 2011 letter
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Oregon Public Broadcasting received an unexpected $50,000 gift on Wednesday (Jan. 25), from a longtime donor who has "given consistently but nothing on that level," OPB President Steve Bass told Current. And here's a twist: The contributor told an OPB
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Is this a great photo or what? That's Terry Gross, host of WHYY's Fresh Air, alongside larger-than-life political satirist Stephen Colbert. In case you missed her appearance on The Colbert Report, here's the link on Fresh Air's Tumblr.
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NPR Labs and KUOW, Seattle, are collaborating on a new type of FM+HD booster system. It would make it easier for stations to use both FM analog and FM HD Radio boosters to improve coverage.
Radio World quotes NPR Labs Senior Technologist John Kean:
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AMARC is the World Association of Community Radio Broadcasters and for nearly 30 years has worked for media democracy by supporting the growth of community radio. This year AMARC’s Middle East and North Africa conference will focus on “com
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Reporters going into a news conference at Facebook’s offices in Seattle were asked to sign a non-disclosure agreement, according to reports coming from news outlets in Seattle.
The Seattle Times blogged earlier today that reporters going to the n
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The best stories of the week from across the web on e-books and self publishing
1. NBC News enters e-book business (Deadline New York)
2. How iBooks Author compares to the competition (Mashable)
3. Amazon: Early data shows Kindle Owners' Lendin
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Our January Roundtable looks at “After the battle, Mike Sword’s war within,” by Beth Macy. In her story, Macy explores the death of a combat veteran in southern Virginia, tracing the effects of the loss on his family and asking what role PTSD mig
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The best stories across the web on media and technology, curated by Lily Leung.
1. Facebook: Average journalist has seen 320% uptick in subscribers since fall (10,000 Words)
2. New York Times disputes claim that Daily Mail is largest newspaper in
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Filmmakers and freelancers with a great story on Black America can discover a byline waiting for them at The Grio.
According to managing editor Joy-Ann Reid, every section of the site is hungry for underreported stories. From great stories with stron
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Yesterday, D.C.-based journalist Shani Hilton wondered in the Washington City Paper: “Where are the women and non-white media critics?” Her quick brainstorm of those who’ve achieved prominence included The Daily Beast’s Howard Kurtz, NY
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