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Comings and goings: PBS promotes two to SVP roles, Reno station names tech VP …
PBS President Paula Kerger announced the promotions of Rhonda Holt and Scott Nourse last month in a memo.Jun Reina promoted to EVP and GM at CapRadio, Rick Eytcheson becomes president emeritus
Reina joined the station in 2007 and has served as COO and CFO.Comings and goings: ‘Invisibilia’ announces new hosts, two staffers leave Chicago Public Media …
Yowei Shaw and Kia Miakka Natisse have been producers for the podcast.Julia Wallace named interim GM of Arizona PBS, Mary Mazur exits
Wallace has served as a professor in practice at the Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication since 2017.Comings and goings: CPB boosts Gales Webb to VP of radio, Harvey promoted at WNET ...
Jacquie Gales Webb joined CPB in 2005.Comings and goings: PBS appoints VPs, ideastream promotes three staffers …
Amy Wigler joins PBS as VP of multiplatform marketing and content.Audrey Cooper joins WNYC as editor-in-chief
Cooper previously served as the editor-in-chief of the San Francisco Chronicle.Marcia Davis named NPR’s supervising editor of race and identity
Davis previously worked for the Washington Post and the Marshall Project.Comings and goings: ideastream promotes Shafarenko, KRCC gets new manager …
Michael Shafarenko joined ideastream in 2013 when the station acquired Civic Commons.Carla McCabe chosen as CEO of VIA Public Media
McCabe will be leaving KCPT, where she has worked since 2013.Craig Brush, former KCOS station manager, dies at 67
A colleague said Brush was “one of the small band of professionals who developed the fundraising techniques that have allowed PBS stations ...Laura Walker, former longtime leader of New York Public Radio, named president of Bennington College
Walker had led NYPR for more than two decades.Bill Pearce, public broadcasting ‘pioneer’ who built WXXI, dies at 95
His involvement in TV productions included a series of interviews with U.S. presidents.Comings and goings: NPR’s Turpin becomes interim chief of staff, Ferguson joins Public Media Group ...
Turpin has been serving as VP for editorial innovation and special projects.Chicago Public Media hires Andi McDaniel as CEO
McDaniel has served as WAMU's chief content officer since 2015.
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