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Former WGBH broadcast engineer Vern Coleman dies
Vern Coleman, 86, who worked 14 years as an audio engineer at WGBH working on such shows as The French Chef, The Boston Pops ...Arkansas pubTV advocate Jane Krutz dies at 86
Jane Krutz, an enthusiastic advocate for the Arkansas Educational Television Network for more than 47 years, died March 25 in Little Rock. ...MPT hires new v.p., Sill to be KPCC’s executive editor, three Illinois pubcasters retire, and ...
Rick Lore is Maryland Public Television’s new v.p. and chief development officer Lore is responsible for membership, on-air fundraising, major and planned giving, ...Philadelphia broadcasters John B. Roberts, 94, and Bruce H. Beale, 82
Two pioneering pubcasters in Philadelphia, John B. Roberts and Bruce Harrison Beale, died on the same day, March 8 [2012]. John B. ...Chapin moves from CNN to NPR, C-SPAN founder steps down, and more…
NPR tapped CNN veteran Edith Chapin to run its foreign desk News chief Margaret Low Smith announced Chapin’s appointment last week along with ...Mundt to NPR, APM lays off Alvarado, Pulitzer-winning cartoonist joins WHYY, and more…
NPR has hired Todd Mundt as editorial director for NPR Digital Services In his new position, Mundt will help stations develop digital ...Current transition: Behrens to Everhart
Karen Everhart, senior editor of Current for 20 years, will succeed founding editor Steve Behrens after this edition. Larry Kirkman, dean of the American ...Daniel del Solar, 71, believer in progressive public media
Daniel del Solar, 71, a Chilean-American media activist, poet and photographer who headed training for CPB in its early days and later ...Alex Chadwick: Recharged to cover an energetic beat
Alex Chadwick was lost. It took a journey to an unlikely place — the whitewater rapids of a Utah canyon — for ...NPR promotes Wilson to chief content officer, Arnold departs PRI, and more…
NPR President Gary Knell has restructured the news organization’s top ranks, elevating digital chief Kinsey Wilson to executive v.p. and chief content ...Pubradio manager and advocate Tim Emmons dies; was a co-founder of MEGS
Northern Public Radio General Manager Tim Emmons, a passionate pubradio advocate and mentor, and a driving force behind the Morning Edition Grad School, died ...Philip Weinberg dies at 86; brought pubcasting to central Illinois
Philip Weinberg, “the man responsible for bringing public broadcasting to central Illinois,” according to the Peoria Journal Star, died Thursday (Feb. 2) in Peoria, ...Jeff Kaye, veteran media chronicler new to Current
Jeffrey Kaye, an experienced media-industry journalist who recently joined Current as senior editor, died Feb. 11 of a heart attack in Bethesda, Md., ...Gerald Poulsen, a.k.a. WAMU bluegrass host Jerry Gray, dies at 78
Gerald Poulsen, known in radio as bluegrass music host Jerry Gray, died Feb. 2 in Roanoke, Va. He was 78. His son ...Mike deGruy, 60, shooter for Nature docs, dies in crash
Mike deGruy, an acclaimed cinematographer with a love of the sea who created several Nature documentaries on PBS, was killed Feb. 4 in ...
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