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Rath goes from Frontline to WATC, Zuckerman steps in for Grech at WLRN in Miami, and more ...
Frontline's Arun Rath will join NPR in late September as host of Weekend All Things Considered, which is relocating to studios at NPR West in ...Delmarva Public Radio selects Whitehair as general manager
Dana Whitehair arrives this week as the new general manager for financially struggling Delmarva Public Radio in Salisbury, Md., whose licensee will ...Mikel Ellcessor resigns from WDET for position with Krista Tippett
Mikel Ellcessor, general manager at Detroit’s WDET-FM, has resigned to take a position with Krista Tippett Public Productions.CPR, WBEZ, WUOT, WBGO lead 2013 PRNDI winners for pubradio news
Presented by NPR’s Scott Simon in Cleveland June 22, Public Radio News Directors Inc. honored the best local public radio news in ...PBS and APT programs win 14 Daytime Emmys
Among 14 Daytime Emmys awarded to public TV programs, APT's Travelscope won in Creative Arts categories for direction and sound mixing.Herbert Allison, ProPublica director, dies at 69
Herbert Allison, Jr., a financial executive who served on the Board of Directors of nonprofit investigative newsroom ProPublica, died July 14 at ...Lary Lewman, host and narrator at MPT, dies at 76
Lary Lewman, an actor and longtime narrator for Maryland Public Television, died July 11 in his Clarksville, Md., home from complications from ...Pubcasters capture 21 national Edward R. Murrow Awards
WLRN in Miami won large-market radio Murrows for feature reporting and use of sound. Chicago’s WBEZ also won for news documentary and ...Bill Thrash, veteran OETA manager and programmer, dies at 73
Bill Thrash, the longtime station manager and program director for Oklahoma’s statewide pubTV network OETA, died July 15 after a long battle ...American Masters chooses first strategist, Lubinsky returns to radio, and more . . .
Pledge legend TJ Lubinsky, whose retro musical revue shows have raised multiple millions of dollars for public television over 20 years, has ...James Loper, KCET founder and president, dies at 81
James L. Loper, a founder of Los Angeles’s KCET and founding chairman of PBS, died in his home in Pasadena, Calif., July ...Sputnik Kilambi, Free Speech Radio News co-founder, dies at 55
Sputnik Kilambi, a veteran international radio reporter who helped co-found Free Speech Radio News, died July 7 in Paris after a battle ...‘Old-timer’ Fred Barzyk aims to Kickstart drama
Fred Barzyk, a pioneering director who began his career at WGBH and went on to win Peabody and Venice Film awards, is ...Jim Nayder, producer of Annoying Music and Magnificent Obsession, dies at 59
Jim Nayder, a veteran producer and programmer at Chicago’s WBEZ, died June 28. He was 59.Judge dismisses three lawsuits against Clash
Three lawsuits filed against former Sesame Street puppeteer Kevin Clash were dismissed by a federal judge who ruled July 1 that the statute of ...
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