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PIC names executive director, KCETLink reorganizes execs, and more comings and goings in public media
Pacific Islanders in Communications, part of the National Minority Consortia, has promoted Leanne Ferrer to executive director and announced two additional appointments. ...NPR names media exec and venture capitalist Jarl Mohn as new CEO
Philanthropist, investor and former cable TV executive Jarl Mohn will join NPR as its new c.e.o. July 1, the network’s board announced ...With retirement ahead, EP of PBS NewsHour reflects on her start in broadcasting
Linda Winslow rose from covering a fireman's muster in small-town Massachusetts to leading a signature news program on public TV.Kenneth Tomlinson, CPB chair at center of scandal, dies at 69
Tomlinson, a former Reader’s Digest editor and CPB Board chair who mounted a behind-the-scenes campaign to balance what he saw as a liberal bias ...Jones steps down from helm of National Black Programming Consortium
Jacquie Jones, executive director of the National Black Programming Consortium (NBPC) since 2005, has resigned, effective immediately, but will continue to produce ...Center for Public Integrity and Investigative News Network each grow by two, and other comings ...
The Center for Public Integrity, a nonprofit investigative newsroom, has hired William Gray and Eleanor Bell. Television producer Gray joins as media relations ...Robert Knight, WBAI investigative journalist, dies at 64
Knight was a Polk Award-winning investigative reporter for New York's Pacifica affiliate.Bell exits NewsHour, Newman departs NPR, and more comings and goings in pubmedia
Bell will manage public relations for US Pharmacopeia (USP) in Rockville, Md., a nonprofit that works with the Food and Drug Administration ...Patrick Baroch, ITVS community engagement producer, dies at 45
Baroch joined the organization in 2005 and was part of the engagement crew that launched the Community Cinema program.Pierre Capretz, French in Action creator, dies at 89
The Yale French professor based the WGBH soap-opera series off his own language-learning curriculum.Kantor joins American Masters; Lacy christens production house
A new executive producer is joining PBS’s biography series American Masters as the former e.p., show creator Susan Lacy, embarks on a new career ...Activists turn up heat on WGBH over role of David Koch
Petitions and projections aim at the billionaire on the station's board.King departs Vermont Public Television after months of turmoil
Vermont Public Television and its president, John King, “parted ways” Wednesday, according to a statement from the VPT Board. King’s departure follows ...Independent Lens, PRX, American Graduate among Peabody honorees
PubTV programming picked up 13 Peabody Awards and public radio earned three in 2013.Chicago Public Media hires former Washington Post GM Goli Sheikholeslami as CEO
Chicago Public Media announced Tuesday that Goli Sheikholeslami will become the organization’s CEO May 5, ending an eight-month national search to replace Torey ...
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