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GetGlue's Fan Base Loves Its Geek TV - Posted October 21, 2011
[caption id="attachment_29060" align="alignleft" width="300" caption="A zombie from GetGlue fave "The Walking Dead""][/caption] Damn! Why didn't I check in last night while I was watching that fascinating PBS show ... [PRNewser]

Ken Burns Documentary 'Prohibition' Makes Its Debut On iPhone & iPad Today - Posted September 23, 2011
Ken Burns fans--if you don't have an iPhone or iPad you'll want to get your hands on one ASAP because the king of documentary is debuting his new film 'Prohibition' today, September 23, on iPhone and iPad. If you don't have one of the Apple devices you'll have to wait... [SocialTimes.com]

Add Anti-Hacking Efforts to Your Crisis Comms Plan - Posted June 20, 2011
We learned about the hacking threat to banks a while ago, but now the threat is much more more widespread. Citibank was hacked in May (and ... [PRNewser]

Hackers Attack PBS, Bring Back Biggie and Tupac - Posted May 30, 2011
[caption id="attachment_21724" align="alignleft" width="225" caption="Sadly, Biggie and Tupac are not alive and living in New Zealand."][/caption] Tupac and Biggie were brought back to life temporarily, and they were chillin' in New Zealand ... [PRNewser]

The Upshot from The Upshot: Andrew Golis Leaving Yahoo! News for PBS' Frontline, Chris Lehmann Promoted - Posted March 15, 2011
Here's the upshot for Yahoo! News' The Upshot: People are leaving. Just ... [WebNewser - SocialTimes.com]

Former CBSer named news director of Murrow Public Media - Posted March 13, 2011
Former CBS News London Bureau Chief John Paxson has been tapped as news director for Murrow Public Media which includes Northwest Public Radio and Northwest Public Television. "As CBS London bureau chief and vice president for Europe, John, quite literally, held Edwa... [TVNewser]

Martin Savidge returns fulltime to CNN - Posted March 9, 2011
After stints at NBC News and PBS, Martin Savidge has returned to CNN, fulltime. Savidge joined CNN the first time in 1996 as a reporter and later anchor. He joined NBC News in 2004, as an Atlanta-based correspondent and reported extensively on ... [TVNewser]

PBS iPhone App Offers Streaming of Full Episodes - Posted January 13, 2011
PBS rolled out an iPhone app that streams full episodes of its series including Frontline, NOVA, POV, Austin City Limits, Independent Lens, Antiques Roadshow, and Nature, ... [WebNewser - SocialTimes.com]

The Economist, PBS NewsHour Launch The Economist Film Project to Showcase Independent Documentaries - Posted December 6, 2010
The Economist and PBS NewsHour teamed up o... [WebNewser - SocialTimes.com]

Paula Kerger on How PBS Is Focusing on Local Web Content - Posted October 6, 2010
PBS president and CEO Paula Kerger spoke with ... [WebNewser - SocialTimes.com]

Building on Existing Buzz for 'LENNONYC' Screening - Posted October 5, 2010
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App Store Stocks Updated PBS NewsHour iPhone App - Posted September 28, 2010
The updated PBS NewsHour iPhone App is now available free-of-charge via the App Store, and it offers HD-quality video, multimedia conte... [WebNewser - SocialTimes.com]

Miles O'Brien Named Science Reporter for PBS NewsHour - Posted September 28, 2010
Former CNN science and space correspondent Miles O'Brien is joining the "PBS NewsHour" as its science reporter. O'Brien left CNN in December, 2008 when ... [TVNewser]

PBS Documentarian and Baseball Nerd Ken Burns Catches a Foul Ball at Red Sox-Orioles Game - Posted September 22, 2010
How is this for random? PBS documentary filmmaker Ken Burns caught a foul ball at the Red Sox-Orioles game last night. Sure, people catch foul balls every game. But how many of those people directed the authoritative documentary series about the history o... [SportsNewser]

Former UFC Manager Buys a PBS News Program - Posted August 18, 2010
? Quick Hit: Well this was unexpected. Mykalai Kontilai, the former manager for UFC stars Tito Ortiz and David Loiseau has purchased a PBS business program. The show, "Nightly Business Report," was... [SportsNewser]

Liberal Criticism of PBS Too Quick To The Draw - Posted January 6, 2010
"Tavis Smiley Ends Racism" reads a Gawker post today about the PBS host, but they're not talking about The Covenant with Black America edit... [FishbowlNY]

2010 Trends: Non-Profit Journalism Takes On Investigative Work - Posted December 31, 2009
When our friends at Folio magazine asked us to contribute to their compilation of media predictions for 2010, we knew we had to include something about non-profit journalism organizations. Her... [FishbowlNY]

Pay Walls And Advertisers: Do News Orgs Have To Choose? - Posted December 29, 2009
When Long Island local newspaper Newsday decided to put its Web site behind a pay wall earlier this year, it seemed like an obvious conclusion that there wo... [FishbowlNY]

Google's Real Time Search Falters|PBS Tracks Shows|Kim Kardashian Will Tweet For Money|Reader's Digest Profiled|Conde Hacked - Posted December 21, 2009
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Who Should Replace George On "This Week"|NewsHour's New Site|NYT Layoff Memo|More Challenges For Freelancers|Mag Publishers Could Unveil Consortium As Soon As Monday - Posted December 4, 2009
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PBS Announces More Changes To Its News Lineup - Posted December 1, 2009
Yesterday's news that Jim Lehrer's name will no longer be in the title for PBS' "NewsHour" wasn't the only change in the... [FishbowlNY]

Bloomberg's BusinessWeek Taps Charlie Rose For Column - Posted December 1, 2009
When Bloomberg LP, the new owner of BusinessWeek, trimmed the magazine's staff ... [FishbowlNY]

NewsHour Partners With GlobalPost, Takes Lehrer Off Title - Posted November 30, 2009
PBS is making some big changes to its powerhouse "NewsHour" program. Starting December 7, the show will no longer be "The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer", but "PBS NewsHour", though longtime host Jim Lehrer... [FishbowlNY]

Tiger Woods Scandal Captivates The Media, And The Menu, Too - Posted November 30, 2009
The Tiger Woods car crash and scandal was the biggest news on today's mediabistro.com Morning Media Menu podcast. Hosts Jason Boog of G... [FishbowlNY]

Business & Financial Reporting Emmy Noms Announced|CNN Protest In LA|A Look At McSweeney's Broadsheet|Staten Island Advance Seeks To Trim Staff|Google's Schmidt Values Editors - Posted November 5, 2009
TVNewser: Nominees for the Business and Financial Reporting Emmy Awards we announced today. CBS gathered the most nods with 15 while PBS... [FishbowlNY]

WNET Launches Video Portal For WLIW, But Furloughs Loom - Posted November 4, 2009
WNET.org -- the parent company of New York's local television stations Thirteen and WLIW21 -- has some... [FishbowlNY]

Former Microsoft, Evri Exec To Lead Public Media's Corporate Sponsorship Firm - Posted October 27, 2009
National Public Media, the corporate sponsorship firm for NPR, PBS and Boston-based ... [FishbowlNY]

NPR Launches Online Local Journalism Project With $3M In Grants - Posted October 2, 2009
NPR announced today that it is planning to launch a new local online journalism venture with $3 million in funding from the Corporation for Public Broadcasting and the John S. and James L. ... [FishbowlNY]

Sotomayor Confirmed|Bloomberg To Air Charlie Rose|Advance Publications Rescinds "No Layoffs" Pledge|What Happened To Lou Dobbs? - Posted August 6, 2009
TVNewser: The Senate ... [FishbowlNY]

USA TODAY Reporters Win Environmental Reporting Award - Posted July 7, 2009
The University of Rhode Island's Metcalf Institute for Marine and Environmental Reporting yesterday announced the winners of its Grantham Prize for Excellence in Reporting on the Environment -- USA TODAY's Blake Morrison and ... [FishbowlNY]

Steinem's Women's Media Center Holds First Annual Media Awards - Posted June 18, 2009
Last night marked the first annual Women's Media Center Media Awards at the Arthur M. Sackler Foundation in midtown. Catered and cozy, the event took place in a small, packed room brimming with well-established female media t... [FishbowlNY]

AP Stylebook Gets Hip To Twitter|Newspaper Wages Inexplicably Up For The Year|PBS Cuts Back|J-School Grads Find Jobs!|NYT Keeps Track Of Tricky Words - Posted June 11, 2009
GalleyCat: The AP Stylebook has embraced Twitter. Editor & Publisher: A salary survey concluded that, despite the recession, ... [FishbowlNY]

"Newshour" Gets An Overhaul|ABC News Buys Out More D.C. Staff|Geffen Makes A Play For The Times|Jon Stewart Makes A History Channel Doc|Mags Find Subs Online - Posted May 12, 2009
TVNewser: PBS's "The Newshour with ... [FishbowlNY]

'Citizen McCaw' To Hit Public Television This Weekend - Posted October 29, 2008
Sam Tyler, of Tyler Productions, Inc., wrote us to let us know about this must-see TV broadcast: I thought you might want to know that despite five letters threatening to sue us (from ... [FishbowlLA]

LAT In 90 Seconds - Posted September 23, 2008
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Music, Music, Music/PBS Series, Blue Suede Shoes, Ol' Blue Eyes and More - Posted February 8, 2008
PBS is developing an sure-fire pledge-break money spinning series--On Record: The Soundtrack of Our Lives, an eight-hour series tracing the history of recorded music and its impact on popular culture, (or at least on Baby Boomers, PBS's target audience.) Series should air in 2010. Legendary Beatles producer George Martin... [FishbowlLA]

Watch the Box: New Hosts, Branded Entertainment - Posted December 6, 2007
TV Guide Network added Lawrence Zarian aka The Fashion Guy, to co-host The Fashion Team, the weekly one-hour talk series that airs Sundays at 7p, if anyone is actually watching. The Fashion Gay would be a great moniker. Farmers Almanac TV, the national PBS show based by t... [FishbowlLA]

New Sites: It's HerHollywood. We Just Live In It - Posted July 10, 2007
Felica Devers, a longtime Hollywoodphile-turned-segment-producer, has launched HerHollywood.com. The new site is aimed at women "working and desiring to work in the film and television fields," and Devers hopes it morphs into an online community of industry women with Hollywood news and a vibrant job boar... [FishbowlLA]

PBS Pulls Islam Doc./ Producers Cry Censorship! - Posted April 11, 2007
PBS won't be airing Islam Vs. Islamists, and the blame is flying. The documentary took a look at the plight of moderate Muslims who are silenced by Islamic extremists. WETA commissioned the doc. as part of the America at a Crossroads series. One of the producers, Leo Eaton... [FishbowlLA]

LAT in 90 Seconds - Posted February 8, 2007
Has Eddie Murphy 'Made A Really Big Mistake?': The LAT examines the potential impact a racist/sexist dumb comedy might have on Eddie Murphy's Oscar chances. ... [FishbowlLA]

LAT in 90 Seconds -- The Tour Edition - Posted January 15, 2007
Lost to end eventually: Nooooooo! Well, OK. But on one condition: You can do whatever you want to the plot -- make the whole thing Hurley's dream for all we care -- just promise future merchandising agreements include Matthew Fox popsicle... [FishbowlLA]