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Comings and goings: PBS announces new board members, Rob Hilbert named Iowa PBS Foundation president ...
Three leaders of major-market public TV stations joined the network's board.Kevin Crane resigns as CEO of Nashville Public Television
Crane joined the station in 2000 and was named its leader in 2017.American Public Media Group CEO Jon McTaggart will step down
McTaggart will continue to lead the organization until a successor is in place.Maja Mrkoci to leave CPB
Mrkoci joined the organization in 2015 after working for PBS.Comings and goings: LaFontaine E. Oliver named NPR board chair, Erica Peterson leaving Louisville Public ...
Oliver is GM of WYPR in Baltimore.RadioPublic CEO Jake Shapiro joins Apple Podcasts
Shapiro also co-founded PRX.Comings and goings: NPR members fill board seats, Alan Foster retires …
Station leaders elected Iowa Public Radio's Myrna Johnson to a three-year term on NPR's board.Jim Rademaker named GM of WCMU
Rademaker joined the station in 2015 and has been interim GM since May 2019.Comings and goings: Rebecca Carroll promoted at WNYC, UNC-TV hires CCO …
Carroll joined the station in 2015.Tom Axtell to retire as GM of Vegas PBS
Axtell has worked in public broadcasting for 48 years.Comings and goings: PMJA names Johnathan Reaves president, Joan Lunden tapped to host ‘Second Opinion’ ...
Reaves replaces Shula Neuman, who resigned earlier this month.With a focus on civil rights, Yamiche Alcindor rises to the top as a White ...
Alcindor is the first public media reporter and first Black woman to win the White House Correspondents’ Association Aldo Beckman Award, presented ...Comings and goings: Shula Neuman resigns as PMJA president, Tonya Harley named PBS VP …
Neuman's departure will allow her "to focus on issues within St. Louis Public Radio."Lorenzo Milam, legendary pioneer of community radio, dies at 86
Milam "inspired hundreds of people to start community radio stations all around the country ... and has left us a raucous and ...Native broadcaster Harlan McKosato dies at 54
Often referred to as “the voice of Indian country,” McKosato brought Native issues into the light for a wide audience.
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