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I love standing on a stage — especially in the American heartland — and saying to 500 public television supporters, “Fear is ...Paul Bartishevich, 53, indie radio producer
Paul Bartishevich, head of Finger Lakes Productions International, died June 1 [2012] at his home in Trumansburg, N.Y., of an apparent heart ...Reber leaves NPR; Arganbright, Appleby launch firm; and more…
CIR has hired ex-NPR investigative news head Susanne Reber. As senior coordinating editor for multiplatform projects and investigations for the nonprofit newsroom, Reber ...Alvarado joins CIR, Knight fellows announced, NewsHour hires new managing editor, and more…
Alvarado, a former APM and CPB exec, is joining the Center for Investigative Reporting The nonprofit news organization announced on May 2 that ...Former communications head at CPB, Stanley Harrison, dies at 81
Stanley Harrison, a former communications director for CPB, died of cardiac arrest on April 5 in Miami Beach, Fla., six days before ...NewsHour‘s Judy Woodruff and former CPB Chair Ernest Wilson III have been elected to the American ...
The academy, an independent policy research center, was founded in 1780 in Cambridge, Mass. Woodruff and Wilson, now dean of the Annenberg ...Lourdes Garcia-Navarro was honored for distinguished reporting from the world’s most volatile regions.
NPR’s Jerusalem-based foreign correspondent received CPB’s highest award, recognizing outstanding contributions to public radio, during an April 9 dinner attended by top ...WUFT, VPR led pubcasters in regional Edward R. Murrow Awards.
Among the 54 public stations receiving regional Edward R. Murrow Awards for electronic journalism, WUFT-FM of Gainesville, Fla., won eight, and Vermont ...StoryCorps’ multiplatform production on the anniversary of 9/11 earned a prize for public radio and ...
The Peabody-winning segment aired on NPR’s Morning Edition and featured interviews that had been adapted as animated shorts for PBS’s POV. The award, one ...Founding engineer of WUOG at University of Georgia dies at 83
Wilbur Herrington, the founding station engineer of University of Georgia’s WUOG-FM, died March 29 of a malignant brain tumor. He was 83. ...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 ...
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