CPB’s Bole moves to Broadcasting Board of Governors

Rob Bole, CPB’s former vice president of Digital Media Strategy, is now helping lead digital media efforts for the Broadcasting Board of Governors. Bole and Raina Kumra are co-directors of a new board-initiated innovation practice integrated into the existing BBG Office of New Media, it announced Monday (June 27). Kumra previously served as senior new media advisor to the U.S. Department of State’s Office of eDiplomacy. The two will “help advance the BBG’s mission to reach larger worldwide audiences where they are through innovation, enterprise journalism and audience engagement,” a BBG statement said. They’ll work to streamline international broadcasting collaborations among BBG’s networks: the Voice of America, Radio Free Europe, Radio and TV Marti, Radio Free Asia, and Middle East Broadcasting.