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Robert Shepherd, veteran Nashville pubTV g.m., dies at 80
Robert Shepherd, longtime g.m. of the TV station that would become Nashville Public Television, died Nov. 21 at his Nashville home after ...OETA Foundation selects WPBT’s Jackson as next president
Daphne Dowdy Jackson, v.p. of development and marketing at WPBT in Miami, moves in January to assume leadership of the OETA Foundation, ...Texas Public Radio selects NPR’s Slocum to lead station
Joyce Slocum, chief administrative officer at NPR, takes over as president and c.e.o. of Texas Public Radio Jan. 6, the San Antonio-based ...Robert Conley, first host of All Things Considered, dies at 85
Robert Conley, the first host of NPR’s All Things Considered, died of parotid cancer Nov. 16 at his home in Virginia. He was 85. ...Lydon returns to Boston’s WBUR with new weekly show
Boston’s WBUR announced today that Christopher Lydon will rejoin the station to host and produce a weekly hourlong show, Open Source with Christopher Lydon. ...American Geophysical Union hires Rehm, Johnson to head Iowa Pubradio, Vermont creates digital news team ...
AGU is a nonprofit association representing more than 62,000 Earth and space scientists. In her new job, former NPR spokesperson Dana Davis ...NPR’s Slocum honored for leadership and service to public radio
The Public Radio Regional Organizations presented the annual PRRO Award Nov. 13 to NPR Chief Administrative Officer Joyce Slocum, whose five years ...Samuel English III, Aviation Weather host, dies at 79
Samuel James English III, host of Aviation Weather, a series produced and distributed by Maryland Public Television in the 1970s, died Nov. 3 of ...Raul Ramirez, longtime news director at KQED, dies at 67
Raul Ramirez, executive director of news and public affairs at San Francisco’s KQED, died Nov. 15 in Berkeley. He was 67 and ...Moyers reverses decision to end show, which goes to 30 minutes in January
BOSTON — Bill Moyers, the journalist and veteran PBS personality who has come out of retirement at least twice to mount new ...Maurice Bernstein, NPR folk-music host, dies at 74
Maurice Bernstein, producer and host of one of NPR’s first nationally distributed music programs, Folk Music and Bernstein, died Nov. 9 at ...With board appointment, Pacifica’s executive director drops “interim” from title
The board of the Pacifica Foundation on Monday appointed Summer Reese executive director of the five-station radio network, a position she has ...Brisk pace of turnover among pubmedia’s top execs in 2013
A new wind of change is blowing through public media organizations of all shapes and sizes, sweeping through executive offices as top ...With board support gone, KBOO leader calls it quits
The Portland community station has new leadership at the top and on its board after a failed bid to revamp workplace practices.Mathes heading west to KUOW, Herring gone from PBS, ‘Political Junkie’ Rudin returns and more ...
Mathes will succeed longtime KUOW leader Wayne Roth, who announced his retirement in May. She begins the new job Jan. 2, 2014.
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