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Blogger gets the hots for NPR’ers, Maine pubcaster appears on Family Feud, and more…
Despite the phrase “a face made for radio,” a blogger has started appraising crush-worthy folks in public radio. Babes Of NPR features ...Stanton joins KPCC, MPR vet honored by governor, Alaska pubradio icon retires, and more…
A former top editor of the Los Angeles Times, Russ Stanton, has joined APM’s Los Angeles station KPCC in Pasadena, Calif., announced a major ...Lynn Samuels, 69; began talk career at Pacifica’s WBAI
Progressive radio talk-show host Lynn Samuels, 69, who began her career on public radio, was found dead in her Queens, N.Y., apartment ...Robert A. Woods, 80, attorney for public stations, NAEB
Robert A. Woods, 80, a retired founding partner in the communications law firm of Schwartz, Woods & Miller, died Dec. 22 [2011] ...NewsHour picks up Bellantoni, WBEZ personnel changes, and more…
Bellantoni to oversee all <em>NewsHour</em> political coverage PBS NewsHour has a new political editor as of Jan. 2. Christina Bellantoni of CQ Roll Call oversees the ...State drops death penalty for commentator Mumia Abu-Jamal
Mumia Abu-Jamal, the onetime radio journalist, activist and convicted killer whose planned jailhouse commentaries were dropped by NPR after an outcry 17 ...Judy Jankowski, 61, managed prominent jazz stations
Judy Jankowski, who held top management positions at several public broadcasting stations, died Dec. 17 [2011] at Kindred Hospital in Westminster, Calif. ...Bob O’Rourke, 72, developed pubcasting science shows
Bob O’Rourke, a former v.p. for public relations at the California Institute of Technology who helped develop several pubcasting science features, died ...Dave Creagh, 60, producer and station exec ‘in vanguard of public radio pioneers’
Dave Creagh, an early All Things Considered executive producer who went on to lead other programs and major-market stations throughout his influential 22-year pubradio ...Jim Fellows: diplomat at center of pubTV
James A. Fellows, 77, an advocate of high ideals, strategic planning and executive training for public television, died in his sleep Friday, ...Ed Burrows, active in movement to win federal aid for public radio, dies at 94
Edwin G. Burrows, a public radio pioneer who was instrumental in getting federal aid to public radio — when CPB’s founding legislation ...Albany gets a lot of Chartock, but how much is too much?
When Alan Chartock, president of Northeast Public Radio in Albany, N.Y., was on a wife-imposed Mexican vacation, despite her objections he still ...Ancient human remains found under Alaska station
KCAW/Raven Radio in Sitka, Alaska, may not have a skeleton in its closet, but it has one in its basement. Contractors working ...APM chief McTaggart, seen as competitor, leaves NPR Board
American Public Media’s president, Jon McTaggart, won re-election to the NPR Board this summer but won’t be taking the seat after all. McTaggart ...Norman Corwin, auteur of radio’s golden years, 101
Norman Corwin, a radio writer and producer whose pioneering programs made him one of the most renowned creators of shows during radio’s ...
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