PBS and APTS announced today that Cox Communications, the fourth largest cable operator, has agreed to carry pubTV stations' HD and multicast digital signals.

The Village Voice reports that a subcontractor to McWane Corporation, the subject of a major investigative reporting series last year by the New York Times, Frontline and Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, filed a libel suit against the three news organizations. Last week the Times won a Pulitzer Prize for public service journalism with its reporting on worker injuries and deaths at plants owned by McWane.

Helen Mirren talks with the New York Times about getting naked on screen.

NPR acknowledges in the Washington Post that it's polling listeners about whether Bob Edwards' departure from Morning Edition will affect their tuning in.