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NPR’s Rudin hopes to launch new show after leaving network
Shutdowns of a show and a reporting project at NPR have prompted the departure of “Political Junkie” Ken Rudin, who has worked ...John Krauss, longtime WRVO manager, dies at 64
John Krauss, former g.m. for WRVO in Oswego, N.Y., and a public broadcasting manager for more than 40 years, died June 17. ...Yore departs Marketplace as APM pares executive ranks
J.J. Yore, a veteran producer credited as a creator of the public radio show Marketplace, was one of three senior executives riffed June 17 ...Nathan Shaw, DEI founding president, dies at 76
Nathan Shaw, the founding president of Development Exchange, Inc., and a public-radio fundraising pioneer, died May 29. He was 76.Public TV shows garner 14 Daytime Emmys; Sesame Street scores six
Programs on public television received 13 creative arts honors and one broadcast statuette in Daytime Emmy Award ceremonies Friday and Sunday in ...DEI group unites public media’s young professionals
A group of young public media professionals who began meeting informally last year to network and share ideas has moved to step ...WBAI co-hosts, partners in life-coaching venture, die in apparent suicide
Lynne Rosen, 46, and John Littig, 48, a couple who co-hosted a self-help radio show on New York’s WBAI, were found dead ...Robert West, specialist in community engagement around documentaries, dies at 60
Robert West, a former community engagement strategist for Independent Television Services who left to form his own outreach organization for independent filmmakers, ...Ford Foundation hires Mertes, Howland and Marshall sign on at NETA Business Center, and more ...
Cara Mertes, the incoming head of the Ford Foundation’s JustFilms, previously served as executive director of American Documentary Inc., a job that ...CPB recognizes Moore, an author and youth advocate, as a pubcasting “Thought Leader”
Wes Moore, the host of Beyond Belief on OWN: Oprah Winfrey Network and author of the bestseller The Other Wes Moore, won CPB’s Thought Leader Award, ...Ibrahim Gonzalez, WBAI personality and producer, dies at 57
Ibrahim Gonzalez, a longtime producer and on-air personality at the Pacifica network’s WBAI-FM in New York, died in his sleep June 3. ...Food shows produced for PBS, WHYY and WBEZ cited for excellence
Public broadcasters won four James Beard Foundation awards for outstanding food journalism.Luoma, Cornwell recognized for achievements in local scheduling
In a citation honoring Maine Public TV’s Kelly Luoma as the Charles Impaglia Programmer of the Year, PTPA lauded her “for tirelessly ...Ron Weaver, part of original Children’s Television Workshop production team, dies at 75
Ron Weaver, a former operations director and producer for Children’s Television Workshop who played an instrumental role in creating some of the ...Haynes Johnson, original Washington Week panel member, dies at 81
Haynes Johnson, a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist who was an original panel member on pubTV’s Washington Week in Review, died May 24 in ...
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