Mitt Romney Promises Not To ‘Kill’ Big Bird, But Demands He Play Advertisements
In this 2012 presidential campaign cycle, no one is safe-- not even Big Bird. Everyone's favorite avian neighbor came under siege today in a campaign stop in Iowa, somehow, from none other than Mitt Romney, who, in explaining at a public event the importance of reducing spending in Washington, cited the need for PBS to...
How Non-Profit, For-Profit Newsrooms Are Working Together
BERKELEY, CALIF. -- As traditional newsrooms shrink and budgets tighten, media outlets have realized they can't do as much investigative, time-intensive reporting. But one solution has been for competing news outlets to begin collaborating...
Fanhattan adds Crackle, PBS and Lifetime
Fanhattan is trying to make it easier for users to discover content available on mobile, and soon connected TV devices. With that in mind, it has added videos from new content sources, including movies from Crackle and TV shows from PBS and Lifetime.
Juan Williams, Lisa Simeone and Public Media’s Quest for Integrity
Trust "is perhaps the most important asset public broadcasting carries forward into evolving public media future," writes Byron Knight.Knight should know. He's had a long career in public broadcasting. Now, he is co-director of the Edito...
Herman Cain Worried About China ‘Develop[ing] Nuclear Capability,’ Despite 50-Year Nuclear Program
The post-sexual harassment Herman Cain media blitz that has kept up all week has done a great deal to understand the workings of the Cain campaign in crisis, but there is one other element of Cain's platform that seems to be getting hit the hardest by his exposure to the press: his foreign policy credentials....
New Ken Burns documentary to debut on iPad and iPhone
Documentary master and father of his own iPhoto slideshow effect Ken Burns' latest effort will debut first on the iPad and iPhone, starting Sept. 23. PBS will make the first episode of Prohibition available first through its iOS apps, over a week prior to TV broadcast.
Judy Woodruff On CNN’s Tea Party Express’ GOP Debate: Tea Party Is ‘Here To Stay’
PBS NewsHour gathered together political editor David Chalian and senior correspondents Gwen Ifill and Judy Woodruff to offer up a little sneak peek of what's to come in tonight's CNN / Tea Party Express GOP Debatapalooza.
Media Decoder Blog: Alison Stewart to Leave PBS’s ‘Need to Know’
Alison Stewart, the second of the program's original co-anchors, said her schedule would not couple well with the show's plans to focus exclusively on the 2012 election.
