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Primary website:
frontline.org
Primary Twitter:
@frontlinepbs

Frontline is an hourlong documentary series produced by WGBH in Boston and distributed by PBS.

Frontline is one of PBS’ flagship national news programs, having won numerous awards since its debut in 1983.

The program has sought to expand its digital presence by producing blogs and shorter, quick-turnaround stories on the web. Journalists manage multiple Twitter accounts covering different “beats,” including national security, global economics, and the media. In 2011, Frontline hired new-media journalists to manage the program’s transition to a “post-broadcast future.” It began to move into interactive online video during the 2012 presidential campaign.

Frontline is an editorial partner to Tehran Bureau, a “virtual” bureau that generates original, nonpartisan reporting and opinion about Iran.

Frontline is funded primarily by nonprofit foundations and individual donors, including the MacArthur Foundation and The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, as well as the Corporation for Public Broadcasting and membership dues from local PBS stations. Unlike NewsHour, its cousin in public television, Frontline does not receive corporate support.

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Recent Nieman Lab coverage:
Dec. 17, 2012 / Spark Camp
Easier interactive documentaries, building for social, and learning from MOOCs: Some of Spark Camp’s big ideas of 2012 — Andrew Golis, Cyndi Stivers, David Gehring, and David Karger share some of the big ideas they’ll take away from the year....
Oct. 10, 2012 / Justin Ellis
Frontline invests in interactive video for The Choice 2012 — The PBS documentary series is trying to orient itself for a future beyond TV that includes the web, tablets, and more....
April 19, 2012 / Ken Doctor
The newsonomics of risking it all — At the Logan Symposium at Berkeley, investigative reporting showed plenty of signs of life....
March 8, 2012 / Andrew Phelps
PRX hires Silicon Valley journopreneur Corey Ford to run the Public Media Accelerator — Ford worried that public media was not changing, so he left it for Silicon Valley; now he's bringing an entrepreneurial spirit back to his roots....
Aug. 23, 2011 / Megan Garber
Doc and digital: Frontline’s new redesign goes beyond broadcast — Nerdy confession: I am a little bit obsessed with site redesigns. Not just because the Lab just launched one of its own, but because new looks, with all the decisions, editorial and economic, that go into them, have a mo...

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Primary author: Andrew Phelps. Main text last updated: October 18, 2012.
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