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NPR restructures marketing unit; Krichels leaves WPSU ‘for multiple reasons’; Walker joins DEI Board, and ...
Dana Davis Rehm, NPR’s senior v.p. of marketing, communications and external relations, will leave the network May 6 due to a reorganization ...Penn State announces Ted Krichels’ resignation from WPSU
Ted Krichels, associate vice president for public media and general manager of WPSU at Penn State University and a thought leader on public ...Dana Davis Rehm to leave NPR due to restructuring
Dana Davis Rehm, NPR’s senior v.p. of marketing, communications and external relations, will leave the network May 6 due to a reorganization ...PBS’s Russell takes KOCE executive post, Dominowski to Indiana, Sullivan exits Frontline after two decades, and ...
Andrew Russell, PBS senior v.p. for strategy and research, is moving to PBS SoCal in Orange County, Calif., as chief operating officer, ...Former executive director of Oregon’s JPR sues over dismissal
The former executive director of Oregon’s Jefferson Public Radio has filed a lawsuit against Southern Oregon University and the Oregon University System ...Michael Sullivan, Frontline producer since 1987, departs icon investigative series
Michael Sullivan, a television producer whose name has run near the top of credit rolls of Frontline almost continuously since 1987, has exited the ...KUED wins eight regional Emmys, while KUAT receives another six
John Howe, senior producer of the Salt Lake City–based station operated by the University of Utah, won four of KUED’s Emmys: three ...Kentucky Legislature honors KET founder O. Leonard Press
O. Leonard Press, who founded Kentucky Educational Television in 1968 after lobbying the state legislature for 10 years, has received the 2012 ...KERA lures Fisher after 28 years at TPT, Rockefeller to retire, Check Please! host moves on, and ...
The host of Check, Please!, WTTW’s popular restaurant review series, is departing the Chicago show after 10 years. Alpana Singh plans to devote more ...At 90, pubradio pioneer upholds a literary tradition
Decades ago, Karl Schmidt occupied himself by staging elaborate award-winning works of theater for radio broadcast. At 90, he’s still weaving compelling ...Emily Squires, Emmy winner for Sesame Street
Emily Squires, who worked on the first regularly scheduled public television series as well as Sesame Street and Between the Lions, died Nov. 21 at Mount ...WTTW captures seven Midwest Emmys, Wisconsin Public TV wins a pair
The Chicago station topped several program categories, and its staff took awards for individual achievements in television crafts. Architect Michael Graves: A Grand Tour ...Pubcasters in Austin and Houston capture five Lone Star Emmys
KLRU in Austin won three statuettes, including one in the community service category for “Light/The Holocaust & Humanity Project 2012,” a contemporary ...Wendell D. Garrett, Roadshow appraiser
Wendell D. Garrett, an appraiser on Antiques Roadshow since 1997, died Nov. 14 at a hospice facility in Williston, Vt. He was 83. In ...Huell Howser, California public TV host
Folksy public TV personality Huell Howser, who chronicled California’s unique people and places while retaining his dulcet Tennessee twang, died Jan. 6 ...
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