From porn to LGBTQ visibility and various other empowered marginalized voices, David Shadrack Smith's Sundance entry covers a tumultuous chapter of media. By Daniel Fienberg Chief Television Critic In ...
Sundance: The all-archival documentary adopts a stubbornly conventional approach to its decidedly unconventional material. Authenticity may be “dangerous and expensive,” per Tina Fey, for those ...
It's also a strikingly relevant look at the making of our modern world. As a "born and bred New Yorker," Smith grew up with the bold, raucous, unpredictable, sometimes beautiful and sometimes ugly ...
Public Access, a new documentary from director David Shadrack Smith that premieres tonight at the Sundance Film Festival, is a hypnotic look back at people who, decades ago, managed to bypass all the ...
New Orleans activist Sandra Wheeler Hester, whose disruptive protests at public meetings and fierce determination to confront racism and corruption wherever she found it earned her the nickname "18 ...
CPB announced a $2.9 million grant Monday to American Public Television to help local public television stations complete, distribute and promote locally produced content for national audiences.
In December the Atlanta City Council did something increasingly rare among local governments: It reinvested in public access television. By approving nearly $1.6 million in funding over three years to ...
He spent two decades hosting the PBS series, during the formative years of personal computing. It was seen in more than 300 cities at its peak. By Trip Gabriel Stewart Cheifet, who enthusiastically ...
New York Mayor Zohran Mamdani says the city is starting a program to offer more access to public bathrooms. Mamdani announced Saturday that the city is committing $4,000,000 to a Request for Proposals ...
While playing piano in public, I was joined by the talented Rayan Sax for a spontaneous duet. With no rehearsal and pure musical connection, the sound filled the space and turned into an unforgettable ...
Imagine for a moment if Sinclair Broadcast Group, the company that owns KATV in Little Rock, decided on a whim to drop ABC and discontinue its network programming. No more “World News Tonight.” No ...
The Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB) is dissolving itself after Congress rescinded all of its federal funding, leaving local educational television supporters wondering what comes next. The ...