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Nonprofits, CPB initiatives pick up Online News Association awards
Online-news nonprofits and public broadcasters took home multiple awards from the annual Online News Association conference, held Oct. 17–19 in Atlanta.Veterans of KQED Newsroom return to
San Francisco to mark show’s revivalA group of some 80 pubcasters will gather Friday night in San Francisco to celebrate the return of KQED Newsroom, that title of a groundbreaking ...Ray Suarez resigning from PBS NewsHour
This item has been updated and reposted with additional information. Ray Suarez, chief national correspondent for PBS NewsHour, is resigning after 14 years with ...Chicago Public Media employees petition to unionize
A majority of staff members at Chicago Public Media signed a petition requesting union representation and presented it to CPM interim C.E.O. ...Krichels, McCoskey make moves; WXXI realigns, promotes new head of TV and news operations; and ...
The staff realignment promoting Elissa Orlando, left, at WXXI in Rochester, N.Y., includes four other promotions for managers.Krichels to oversee system development and media strategy for CPB
Veteran pubcaster Ted Krichels will become CPB’s new s.v.p. for system development and media strategy, effective Nov. 4. Krichels replaces Mark Erstling, who ...WILL, WTVP start ‘dating’ by sharing general manager
The arrangement grew out of a neighborly collaborative relationship between the stations as well as a desire to save personnel costs.PBS’s top engineer McCoskey heading to Motion Picture Association of America
John McCoskey, PBS’s head of technology for six years, has accepted a position as executive vice president and chief technology officer at ...Lacy bound for HBO, Seiken leaving PBS for UK media giant, and more . . ...
Susan Lacy created PBS’s iconic cultural biography series in 1986, and will exit after signing a “very nice multiyear deal” to produce ...Jack Brown, creator of Northstate Public Radio, dies at 68
Jack Brown, longtime g.m. of Northstate Public Radio and the man who transitioned the Chico, Calif., station from a student-run enterprise to ...Betty Cope, WVIZ founding g.m., dies at 87
Betty Cope, the founding general manager of Cleveland’s pubTV station and one of the first women to ascend into television broadcast management, ...Susan Farmer, Rhode Island politician and pubTV exec, dies at 71
Susan Farmer, longtime president of Rhode Island’s only pubTV network, died Sept. 16 after a 12-year battle with cancer. She was 71. Farmer ...Robert Larson, “urban missionary” at Detroit Public TV, dies at 83
Robert Larson, a mission-driven public broadcaster who helped pioneer techniques for creating television programs and outreach for underserved communities, died Sept. 13 ...Out of Africa, Thompkins returns to New Orleans home
After serving a stint as NPR's East Africa correspondent, Gwen Thompkins was ready to head in a different direction. WWNO gave her ...PBS programs win three at 2013 Creative Arts Emmys
American Masters and Downton Abbey led the opening round of the annual Primetime Emmys Sept. 15 by claiming three Creative Arts Emmys for PBS. American Masters, a production ...
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