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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.Ben Godley steps down as CEO of CDP
Godley previously served as COO of WGBH.Holly Groschner retires as CEO of Vermont PBS
COO Steve Ferreira was named interim CEO while the board leads the search for a successor.Comings and goings: Daniel Tucker promoted at WBEZ, NPR adds new staffers …
Before joining the Chicago station, Tucker was a producer for WNYC.WNYC ‘Morning Edition’ host Richard Hake dies at 51
Hake died suddenly at his home Friday.Dorothy ‘Kitty’ Lensman named president of Ohio’s Public Media Connect
Lensman joined a branch of the organization in 1999.
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