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Los Angeles Press Club Awards, 2011
KPCC’s Susan Valot and KCRW’s Kim Masters were recognized among best journalists in Los Angeles. Valot, a reporter who covers Orange County ...Knight-Batten Award, 2011
NPR social media specialist Andy Carvin received a Knight-Batten Award for innovation in journalism. Carvin, whose job as the network’s senior social media ...PRPD/ARA Don Otto Award, 2011
Programmer Shelia Rue received the Don Otto Award at PRPD. The veteran programmer and workshop instructor for Public Radio Program Directors was honored ...DEI Benchmarks Award, 2011
New Hampshire Public Radio was cited for outstanding performance in fundraising. NHPR, based in Concord, ranks among the most efficient public radio outlets ...Public Radio News Directors Inc. Awards, 2011
KJZZ, WBEZ, WBGO and KLCC led the annual contest among local pubradio newsrooms. Each took three or more first-place PRNDI awards in ...Primetime Emmy Awards, 2011
Masterpiece Classic’s Downton Abbey led PBS’s Emmy winners. Among six Primetime Emmys presented in September [2011] to the British costume drama was the highly coveted statuette ...News and Documentary Emmys, 2011
It’s been a very good Emmy season for indie documentaries on PBS. POV received four of the six statuettes credited to PBS in ...For Erbe, accident was a tumble into the unknown
Bonnie Erbe’s life took an ominous turn over Memorial Day weekend, but she doesn’t remember much of what happened. The longtime host ...CPI hires four, Abumrad gets $500K MacArthur fellowship, three join FCC panel, and more…
Ellen Weiss, the NPR News chief who took the network’s blame for the Juan Williams affair, has joined the Center for Public ...Gary Knell, Sesame Workshop c.e.o., hired as NPR president
Gary E. Knell, president and c.e.o. of Sesame Workshop for a decade, will start work Dec. 1 with the same titles at ...Robert M. Reed, first g.m. of Hawaii’s public TV network, 79
Robert M. Reed, the founding manager of Hawaii’s public TV network who became a publisher and an author, died of respiratory failure ...Moyers returns in January with weekly hour
The latest incarnation of Bill Moyers’ distinctive brand of talk programming will be the hourlong, multiplatform Moyers & Company, distributed by American Public Television. ...PBSd venture and MHz project aim to export public television
Television viewers in Great Britain, the Middle East, Russia and India could soon be watching American public TV shows, if two initiatives ...A comic book to explain media? — a scene so sad that it’s funny
Long after giving a title to her new serious comic book, On the Media co-host Brooke Gladstone is having to explain it away. When ...John F. Gregory, Pasadena radio leader
John F. Gregory, an early general manager at KPCC-FM in Pasadena, Calif., died May 9 at his Los Angeles home. Gregory led the ...
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