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Comings and goings: Mary Pruess retires in Quad Cities, MPR’s Nancy Cassutt moves into management ...
Pruess signs off as WQPT nears the goal of its $2.4 million capital campaign.Ellen Doherty promoted to chief creative officer at Fred Rogers Productions
Doherty oversees popular PBS Kids series while developing new projects.Tom Currá resigns as VIA Public Media CEO
Currá had worked for the organization since 2004.Former assistant GM will lead Detroit’s WDET
Mary Zatina is returning to the station after more than 30 years.Dan Larkin named station manager of Minneapolis’ KBEM
Larkin has been director of broadcasting for the Minnesota Timberwolves and Lynx NBA teams.Comings and goings: PBS adds two VPs, Neary prepares to retire from NPR …
Neary joined NPR in 1982 as a newscaster and later became the network's first religion correspondent.WETA promotes John Wilson to SVP
Wilson began supervising the station’s national productions on an interim basis in September.‘Radiolab’ co-host Robert Krulwich will retire in January
Krulwich said his decision to retire was not because "anything bad has happened, more like the opposite.”Comings and goings: AmDoc expands team, Kopp quits in Aspen …
The producer of public TV's "POV" added two managers to POV Engage and hired a producer for its series of short films.A quest for public radio bumper stickers: ‘My Corolla is less a car now than ...
After his Honda was totaled, a public radio journalist set out to cover his new Corolla "with a ridiculous amount of bumper ...Margaret Low on her ‘double homecoming’ to WBUR
Low is returning to public radio in January to lead the Boston station.Julian Wyllie joins Current’s reporting team
He’ll report from Washington on public TV and CPB.WBUR hires Margaret Low as CEO
Low returns to public media after leading The Atlantic's events division.WETA CEO Sharon Rockefeller receives National Medal of Arts
In presenting the medal, President Trump joked that he now hopes to get "good publicity" from "PBS NewsHour" and "Washington Week."KERA hires Nico Leone as CEO
Leone has led KCUR for seven years.
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