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Pruess says she’s leaving WNIT “in a strong position” after weathering challenges, including fire
Mary Pruess, outgoing president and g.m. of WNIT Public Television in South Bend, Ind., told Current she feels “very confident that the station ...KQED’s AIDS at 30 series wins award for excellence in radio
The series covered the 30th anniversary of the year the Centers for Disease Control reported that five previously healthy young men in ...Minnesota Public Radio’s Chris Worthington receives diversity award
Presented by AAJA Minnesota, the Leadership in Diversity Award honors someone who has made great strides in promoting and demonstrating diversity in ...Hawaii Public Radio overcomes challenges to win prize for outstanding fundraising
DEI gives its Benchmarks Award each year to a consistently top-performing station in terms of net revenue per hour of listening. While ...Wisconsin Public Radio’s Dopart was hailed as PRADO development professional of the year
Since becoming WPR’s director of membership director in 2005, Rebecca Dopart has upped membership revenue by 30 percent — from $5 million ...Hinojosa wins John Chancellor Award for a lifetime of broadcasting achievement
Maria Hinojosa, reporter and anchor for PBS, NPR and CNN, was selected by a panel of eight judges who cited “the courage ...PRPD honors a co-founder and presents a special award to a key provider of audience ...
The Public Radio Program Directors Association gave its 2012 Don Otto Award to audience researcher Peter Dominowski, who co-founded PRPD in 1987. ...POV captures five of PBS’s nine news and documentary Emmys
PBS topped all the other broadcast networks, as runners-up ABC and CBS each won seven. POV’s “Last Train Home,” a film about Chinese ...Great Expectations exceeds expectations by winning four of PBS’s 11 Creative Arts Primetime Emmys
As a Masterpiece production competing against other miniseries, movies and specials, Great Expectations received Emmys for outstanding achievement in costume design (Annie Symons, Yvonne Duckett), art direction ...Madeleine Brand says outside offers lured her from KPCC
Madeleine Brand, who quit KPCC Sept. 21, told Current that “outside offers just became too attractive” for her to remain at the Pasadena ...Anthony Tiano, longtime KQED president, dies at 71
Anthony Tiano, president of KQED in San Francisco from 1979–93, died Aug. 12 at his home in Albuquerque, N.M. He was 71. At ...George Stoney, public-access television pioneer, dies at 96
George Stoney, a pioneering documentarian widely regarded as the father of public-access television, died July 12 at his Manhattan home, days after ...David Rakoff, This American Life contributor, dies at 47
Humorist and essayist David Rakoff, a regular contributor to Public Radio International’s This American Life since the program’s inception, died Aug. 9 after a ...Ken Messer, former g.m. of Yakima’s KYVE-TV, dies at 70
Ken Messer, who served as general manager of PBS affiliate KYVE in Yakima, Wash., from March 2008 through his retirement in June, ...Roger Fisher, creator of The Advocates on pubTV, dies at 90
Roger Fisher, a Harvard law professor who developed the Emmy-and Peabody Award–winning public TV program The Advocates, died Aug. 25 in Hanover, N.H. He ...
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