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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 ...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 ...
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