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CHICAGO, Oct. 31, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Smiley Radio Properties, Inc. (SRP) celebrates the second anniversary of its popular radio program, Smiley & West from Public Radio International (PRI), with the addition of two new affiliates in Chicago, IL. The one-hour weekly program, hosted by broadcaster Tavis Smiley and Union Theological Seminary professor Cornel West, will be heard Sundays at 3 p.m. on WCPT - Chicago's Progressive Talk starting November 4, and Saturdays at 11 a.m....
CHICAGO, Oct. 15, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Tavis Smiley, public radio and television broadcaster, emailed the following letter Monday to Torey Malatia, President and CEO of Chicago Public Media, regarding the recent cancellation of Smiley & West from Public Radio International (PRI) by WBEZ. In the letter Smiley rejects the claim that his public radio work has become "far less inclusive," as Malatia has suggested. "I am as 'inclusive' as I have ever been because I am as...
MINNEAPOLIS, Sept. 4, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- WHAT: <blockquote> PRI, a leading public media producer and distributor of radio and digital content, has begun production on "The Tobolowsky Files," a series of specials featuring profound, moving, and hilarious true stories about life, love and Hollywood, written and performed by character actor Stephen Tobolowsky. "The Tobolowsky Files" started as a popular podcast produced by Film's David Chen and Stephen Tobolowsky....
MINNEAPOLIS and BOSTON, July 26, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Public Radio International® (PRI) and WGBH Boston, two leading public media organizations, announce that PRI has been acquired by, and will be an affiliated company of, WGBH. Recognizing the tremendous changes and opportunities occurring in media, PRI and WGBH are responding to the imperative for public media to find new and innovative ways to work more effectively to serve the public. (Logo:...
PRINCETON, N.J. and MINNEAPOLIS, July 25, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- In today's fractured news media landscape, the challenge of connecting audiences, producing news relevant to a global society, and telling meaningful stories that show us who we are becoming as a global society, has never been greater. Public Radio International (PRI) and New America Media (NAM) will embark on a pioneering collaboration, "Immigrant Lives," designed to elevate public awareness of, and discourse...
MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif., May 23, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Vayama.com, the only online travel agency in the United States that specializes in international travel, along with NPR (National Public Radio) stations across the country are partnering together to offer international travel promotions during seasonal pledge drives. Contributors to the pledge drive automatically receive entry in sweepstakes to win international travel prizes such as airfare and hotel accommodations to...
MINNEAPOLIS, May 21, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Public Radio International (PRI) announces that it has received a two-year, $1.6 million grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to lead a major initiative to raise awareness, understanding and engagement around critical issues of health and development worldwide. This grant continues the philanthropic partnership between PRI and the Gates Foundation begun in 2004. Building on the solid base of global health and...
PALO ALTO, Calif., May 15, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- The newest edition of Flipboard(TM), released today, is all about sound. Anyone with Flipboard on Apple's® iPad®, iPhone® or iPod Touch® can now listen to amazing audio shared on SoundCloud and world-class radio programming from NPR and Public Radio International (PRI), all while reading their Flipboard. Additionally, Flipboard is now more accessible for users with visual disabilities, integrating Apple's VoiceOver® features into...
The Multi-Touch book for iPad is the first from public media MINNEAPOLIS, March 14, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Public Radio International (PRI) announces the release of its first book for the iPad, the "Studio 360 Teacher Redesign" Multi-Touch book, available now on the iBookstore. Using multimedia and interactive components to tell a socially current and visually compelling story about our perceptions of teachers, "Studio 360 Teacher Redesign" provides PRI with the...
SAN FRANCISCO, Nov. 8, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- Encoding.com, the world's largest video encoding service, announced that LA public radio station KCRW 89.9FM, an NPR affiliate, has integrated its Vid.ly platform to power video for KCRW's Music Mine iPad application. Vid.ly is the first universal video URL platform and radically simplifies the preparation and delivery of video to all mobile devices and browsers, thus solving the biggest challenge facing video content publishers and application...
