WTVI-TV in Charlotte could partner with local community college By | February 2, 2012Ĭommunity licensee WTVI-TV in Charlotte, N.C., is in early merger talks with Central Piedmont Community College to keep the pubcaster on the air, reports the Charlotte Observer. Sources also told the paper that Phil Bronstein, the former editor of the San Francisco Chronicle and current president of the Center for Investigative Reporting’s board, has been in talks about taking an “editorial leadership position” in any combined organization.
No reasons were cited for the departures.Citing unnamed sources, the Journal said it was unclear whether the two nonprofits would continue to operate as separate brands in the event of a merger. The Journal also reported that the news site’s chief executive, Lisa Frazier, and its interim editor-in-chief, Steve Fainaru, would be leaving next week. The Center for Investigative Reporting partners with major news media outlets, including public broadcasters such as Frontline and NPR.The merger discussions follow the December death of Warren Hellman, the San Francisco investor and philanthropist who originally donated $5 million to launch the two-year-old Bay Citizen and continued to play a role in its development. Two prominent nonprofit news organizations, The Bay Citizen, based in San Francisco, and the Center for Investigative Reporting, based in nearby Berkeley, are in merger talks, the Wall Street Journal reported.The paper quoted Robert Rosenthal, executive director of the Center for Investigative Reporting,as saying, “There’s been no decisions made and it’s unclear where the conversations will lead, if anywhere.”The Bay Citizen produces news for its own website, but also provides San Francisco-area coverage for The New York Times. “By doing this, we had the flexibility of airing each interstitial several times, we put them on our YouTube channel and we put them on radio.īay Area nonprofit news organizations discussing merger By | February 2, 2012 “Basically, in an age of Tweets, we micro-messaged a documentary,” she said. The bus journeys culminated in Jackson, Miss., where hundreds of the activists were jailed.Greene told Current that initially MPB was considering producing a film, but soon favored the interstitial approach. The 30-second interstitials tell personal pieces of the larger story of the Freedom Rides, the 1961 civil-rights protest that challenged segregation in the deep South. Mississippi Public Broadcasting honored for Freedom Ride interstitials By | February 2, 2012Īn informative series of 40 interstitials on the Freedom Riders has won Mississippi Public Broadcasting and its Assistant Director of Production Edie Greene a 2012 Public Humanities Award from the Mississippi Humanities Council, funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities, for preserving the state’s culture. “We wanted to get things into alignment and build on our plan to achieve our objectives and provide the new media offerings we are going to have.”Also, Debra Fraser, currently station manager on the radio side, will now be in charge of news programming, engineering and technical operations for all three stations - KUHT-TV, KUHF-FM and KUHA-FM - as director of operations and station manager.Top managers John Proffitt of KUHF-FM and John Hesse of KUHT-TV departed in December 2011. of Houston Public Media, said reductions were made “to bring expenses into alignment with revenue.”“You cannot build an organization when you are not operating from a strong financial position,” she told the paper. Lisa Trapani Shumate, executive director and g.m. The Houston Chronicle describes it as “part of a cost-cutting move by the new general manager.” Personnel were cut in production, programming, development, technology and administration.
KUHT-TV in Houston lays off 12 employees across five departments By | February 2, 2012Īs part of an ongoing reorganization, KUHT-TV in Houston has laid off 12 staffers.
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