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Media Update: Immigrants in Nashville Become Storytellers in Three-Day Training
This July, NPT held its first Storyteller Boot Camp, where in three days local immigrants and refugees picked a story idea, gathered footage and edited it all into a video destined for the Storytellers blog. Led by NPT producer Will Pedigo (Children’s Health Crisis, Next Door Neighbors, Beautiful Tennessee: Our Scenic Waterways) and production assistant [...]
Media Update: NPT One of Seven TN Recipients of Nissan Foundation Grants
NPT is proud today to be one of seven Tennessee organizations to receive grants from the Nissan Foundation, awarded today at Nissan North America’s corporate headquarters in Franklin, Tennessee. The grant for our Next Door Neighbors project continues the Nissan Foundation’s support for the initiative since it began several years ago. In that time we [...]
Media Update: Help Us Celebrate our 50th Anniversary with Your Memories of NPT
This September, NPT will celebrate its 50th Anniversary, and we want you to help us mark the occasion. From our humble beginnings as school board-licensed station WDCN, to our stature now as NPT and one of the most-watched public television stations in the country, a lot has happened in 50 years. You have made [...]
(Media Update) Music City Chapter of The Links Honors NPT and Next Door Neighbors
On Saturday, October 29, 2011, at its annual Masked Ball event, the Music City Chapter of The Links, Incorporated honored Nashville Public Television with its “Global Citizenship Award” for our Next Door Neighbors documentary series and project, an initiative the chapter said, “encourage stronger ties among Nashvillians.” The award is give to an indivdual or [...]
(Media Update) NPT Reports and NDN Storytellers Join New NPT Blog Network
For quite awhile, NPT Media Update was all alone in the NPT Blog universe. We had no blog buddies. Then, last year, we introduced the Community Cinema Nashville blog, to keep Community Cinemaphiles and documentary fans abreast of what was going on during the season. But that still left us lonely during the off-season. That’s [...]
(News) NPT Visits Our Sudanese Next Door Neighbors
We’re extremely excited to bring you a new episode of our informative and educational Next Door Neighbor series next week! In the past, we’ve brought you together with Nashville’s Kurdish, Somali, Hispanic and Bhutanese communities (now available for viewing online), and this time we’ll introduce you to Nashville’s burgeoning Sudanese neighbors. Sudan is the largest [...]
Tweets (Some Annotated) from the PBS Annual Meeting:
Several of us here at NPT recently spent four days at the PBS Annual Meeting in Orlando, Florida, where we caught previews of the upcoming season, discussed public broadcasting business and took part in professional development sessions with representatives from PBS, public broadcasting organizations and representatives for public television stations around the nation. A wrap-up [...]
NPT Welcomes Reporter LaTonya Turner to our Staff
NPT is pleased to welcome reporter LaTonya Turner to our staff. Turner joins us as part of the Corporation for Public Broadcasting’s Local Journalism Collaborative Project. She will create video, audio and web reports on education in collaboration with Georgia Public Broadcasting (GPB) and stations in Mississippi, Alabama and Louisiana. She will also continue her [...]
A Look at the Six Months Ahead at NPT
From new episodes in our Tennessee Civil War 150, NPT Reports: Children’s Health Crisis and Next Door Neighbors documentary projects, to a third volume of our popular 20th Century in Photographs series, to a public screening and event surrounding the Freedom Riders documentary, 2011 is going to be an amazing year of great programming and events [...]
NPT Receives Four Regional Emmy Award Nominations
Nashville Public Television productions received four nominations when The Nashville/Midsouth Chapter of The National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences (NATAS) announced the nominations for the 24th Annual Midsouth Regional Emmy Awards at a reception November 20 at BMI headquarters on Music Row. Garnering nominations were Next Door Neighbors: Somali (Suzy Hence, Will Pedigo) in [...]
