Author: Julian Wyllie
GBH and author Kwame Alexander partner for children’s series on music education
Alexander will be a co-EP for the production alongside Marcy Gunther, director of media development for children’s media at GBH. Kay Donmyer, ...Maine Public taps Rick Schneider as CEO
Schneider returns to public media as successor to Mark Vogelzang, who retired June 30.Tom Calderone named CEO for Buffalo Toronto Public Media
Calderone succeeds Donald Boswell, who is retiring after more than two decades of leadership of the stations.Comings and goings: GBH Kids promotes EPs, Rick Holter to leave KERA …
GBH promoted Dorothea Gillim to creative director and Marisa Wolsky to director of children's STEM media.Becky Magura named CEO of Nashville Public Television
Magura, who will join the station in September, is leaving WCTE in Cookeville, Tenn.Study points to ways public media could build teen and tween audience — and risks of ...
"If we don’t engage them now, the teens and tweens of today might not as adults of tomorrow value public media.”One up, one down: New Jersey station receives state funding, Pennsylvania’s lose appropriation
NJ PBS received $1 million, its first appropriation in a decade, while seven Pennsylvania stations lost support.Comings and goings: John Van Hoesen to retire from VPR, C.J. Janovy rejoins KCUR …
Van Hoesen joined the station in 2001.CPB board boosts CSG funds by delaying Healthy Network Initiative for second year
Board member Ruby Calvert said setting aside the initiative for another year is “the right thing to do.”PBS FY22 budget increases station dues, spending on content and marketing
PBS CFO and Treasurer Tom Tardivo said the new dues amount to a “modest increase.”Travis Hendryx appointed GM for Smoky Hills PBS
Hendryx previously worked for newspapers in Kansas and radio stations in Texas.Comings and goings: Paul Hunton joins PBS board, Amna Nawaz promoted to ‘NewsHour’ chief correspondent ...
Hunton fills the vacancy left by Kim Johnson, who resigned from the board and PBS12 in Denver.David Feingold to retire as CEO of Blue Ridge Public Radio
Feingold has led the station since 2015.Comings and goings: Shereen Marisol Meraji leaving ‘Code Switch,’ Holly Edgell to lead Midwest Newsroom ...
Meraji has co-hosted the podcast since its 2016 launch.Comings and goings: PBS hires Douglas Chang as senior director, WETA appoints diversity officer …
Chang previously worked as a programming director for KCET in Los Angeles and as supervising producer for AmDoc/POV.
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