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CPB gets five new board members, Deggans joins NPR as its new television correspondent, and ...
Eric Deggans, a media critic at the Tampa Bay Times since 1995, will sign on as NPR’s television critic and correspondent, a new position, ...Dann Tucker, influential fundraising consultant, dies at 60
Dann Tucker, a fundraising consultant who trained PBS employees in underwriter outreach and organized donor cruises for PBS and NPR, died Aug. ...NewsHour promotes Ifill and Woodruff to helm show, as TV’s first female co-anchor team
The PBS NewsHour is reassigning its senior journalists to new roles by tapping Gwen Ifill and Judy Woodruff as co-anchors and managing editors of ...Senate approves all five presidential nominees to CPB Board
President Obama's five nominees to the CPB Board were approved Thursday night by the U.S. Senate.Several pubmedia journalists to join new Al Jazeera America network
Among the new reporters for Al Jazeera America’s 12 U.S. news bureaus are several with public media backgrounds. The New York City–based ...Malatia resigns as president of Chicago’s WBEZ
Torey Malatia, longtime president and c.e.o. of Chicago Public Media, has resigned effective immediately.After public broadcasting, David Giovannoni dives into audio’s long-lost past
Retiring from public radio finally afforded audience analyst David Giovannoni the time to turn his hobby, collecting antique phonographs and early sound ...Second journalist fired at Miami’s WLRN
Miami’s WLRN confirmed that host and reporter Phil Latzman was dismissed July 16. Latzman hosted a weekly public affairs show on the ...Pisaneschi moves up to lead Idaho Public Television in August
The next general manager of Idaho Public Television is Ron Pisaneschi, now its director of content. Pisaneschi takes over Aug. 5 from ...WPBT’s Schneider accepts chief operating officer post at WETA
Rick Schneider, president of WPBT in Miami, will take over as executive vice president and chief operating officer at WETA in September, ...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.
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