PBS just got a $200,000 grant to help fund expansion into citizen-oriented digital programming.
“This opportunity really expands our footprint and our commitment to public affairs,” Jacoba Atlas, senior veep of PBS programming, told Daily Variety. “We’re about treating our viewers as citizens, not consumers … and this new digital channel will help us do that even better.”
Join Jeff Jarvis for a discussion about the idea.
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Leonard Witt is the Robert D. Fowler Distinguished Chair in Communication at Kennesaw State University and the chief blogger of PJNet. His academic interests include public and citizen journalism and how to get citizens' voices heard. He has spent most of his professional career as an award-winning journalist.