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Karen Everhart

Managing Editor

karen@current.org

Phone: (202) 885-6414

Karen Everhart was promoted to managing editor of Current in 2012, supervising a team of four reporters and editors, freelance contributors and student interns. She joined Current back when Barney and Carmen Sandiego were the big stars of PBS Kids and stayed on to cover every major beat — public TV, CPB and public radio — over two decades as a reporter and senior editor. In 2007, Karen began focusing on public radio’s digital initiatives and how local broadcasters were adapting to the demands of multiplatform media distribution. After hours, she’s into bicycling, cooking for family and friends and live music events.

Programs/Content

Pipeline 2020: Our annual survey of shows coming to public TV

By Karen Everhart, Managing Editor, Mike Janssen, Digital Editor and Terry Fischer, Contributing Editor | November 11, 2019

Get a preview of more than 90 documentaries, how-to shows, “Masterpiece” dramas and more heading to public TV in the next few years.

Obituaries

Rick Lewis, producer and manager who guided ‘Morning Edition,’ ‘Marketplace’ to air, dies at 71

By Karen Everhart, Managing Editor | September 24, 2019

As manager of KLON, Lewis tried to build a “tiny jazz station” into a national producer.

Featured in Category

Dalton Delan leaves WETA after 21 years with station

By Karen Everhart, Managing Editor | September 17, 2019

Delan is the second veteran WETA executive to move into a consulting role this year.

People

Sutton to lead audience and development division for Pittsburgh stations

By Karen Everhart, Managing Editor | September 13, 2019

The job change is part of a management restructuring that elevates Mike Sauter to GM of WYEP.

Local That Works

We announce the four finalists in our 2019 Local That Works contest

By Karen Everhart, Managing Editor | September 5, 2019

For the first time, a nonprofit news organization and a statewide public TV collaboration advance to the winner’s round.

About Current

Current’s executive director is recovering after serious accident

By Karen Everhart, Managing Editor | August 22, 2019

Our Executive Director Julie Drizin was hit by an SUV Aug. 11 and is in a rehab center.

Programs/Content

Comings and goings: Chuck Murphy joins Colorado Public Radio as investigative editor, Florangela Davila lands news director job at KNKX …

By Karen Everhart, Managing Editor | August 16, 2019

Murphy will build the newsroom’s first investigative reporting unit.

People

PBS’ Marie Nelson takes SVP position with ABC News

By Karen Everhart, Managing Editor | July 31, 2019

After nearly five years as PBS’ VP of news and public affairs, Nelson will work on strategies to attract multicultural audiences to ABC News.

Programs/Content

Curiosity Correspondent Emily Graslie will take PBS viewers on a ‘Prehistoric Road Trip’ next summer

By Karen Everhart, Managing Editor | July 30, 2019

The program lineup for 2020 also features an “American Masters” film about Rita Moreno.