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Iowa Public Radio names new executive director
Myrna Johnson, a former government relations associate for NPR who now directs a Boston nonprofit, has been named the next executive director ...Pat Fitzgerald, longtime WBGU g.m., dies at 69
Pat Fitzgerald, g.m. of WBGU-TV in Bowling Green, Ohio, for more than two decades, died Oct. 30 of a stroke in his ...Ray Suarez lands at AJA’s D.C.-based newsmag Inside Story
Veteran public broadcasting newsman Ray Suarez, who resigned from PBS NewsHour Oct. 25 after nearly 15 years, will host Inside Story on satellite news channel Al ...Latino advocacy group criticizes PBS treatment of newsman Ray Suarez
A grass-roots organization that protested Ken Burns’s exclusion of World War II Latino soldiers’ experiences from his 2007 documentary The War is speaking out ...WBAI interim p.d. quits over fundraising programming
Andrew Phillips resigned last month as interim p.d. of Pacifica’s WBAI in New York, a post he accepted less than three months ...Elaine Rivera, former WNYC reporter, dies at 54
Elaine Rivera, a reporter for New York’s WNYC from 2006–09, died Oct. 26. She was 54. The cause of death has not ...Bill Moyers ending Moyers & Company in January
Bill Moyers announced today to his colleagues in public TV that the last broadcast of his Moyers & Company public-affairs show will air Jan. ...Morgese accepts GM post at KUED-TV
Veteran pubcaster James Morgese will take over Dec. 1 as GM of KUED-TV in Salt Lake City. Morgese has more than 30 years ...Walter Sheppard, former grant officer for PTFP, dies at 82
Walter Sheppard, a veteran public radio general manager who worked for the federal government’s Public Telecommunications Facilities Program for more than two ...PBS Station Services chief to exit next week
Joyce Herring, s.v.p. of station services for PBS, is leaving the network Oct. 31, President Paula Kerger announced today in an email ...Ken Rudin offers public radio a new weekly dose of “Political Junkie”
The demise of NPR’s Talk of the Nation ended Ken Rudin’s regular appearances on many public radio stations, but the “Political Junkie” is aiming ...NPR unveils new voice of underwriting credits
NPR hired voice-over and theater actress Sabrina Farhi as the new voice of its underwriting credits, with her on-air debut to come ...Suarez sets exit date from NewsHour, Keith heading for White House, Cruz running KVCR and more ...
Alfredo Cruz has stepped up to run dual licensee KVCR, becoming the third g.m. at the San Bernardino, Calif., station in less ...This American Life, Radiolab, Radio Rookies among Third Coast winners
Programs produced by Chicago’s WBEZ, New York’s WNYC and Miami’s WLRN won awards from the Third Coast International Audio Festival, handed out ...NewsHour founders to transfer ownership
The decision by retired founders Jim Lehrer and Robin MacNeil, which has the approval of MacNeil/Lehrer Productions (MLP) majority owner Liberty Media, ...
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