Awards
Downton Abbey creator will receive special Emmy, and more awards in public media
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The Founders Award recognizes the creator of an outstanding and popular program.
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The Founders Award recognizes the creator of an outstanding and popular program.
Although there will be no rank-and-file layoffs, several executive positions will be eliminated.
Johnny Simmons has retired after working for 35 years at KUSP Santa Cruz, Calif.
Parlocha hosted Jazz With Bob Parlocha, syndicated by the WFMT Radio Network in Chicago.
WFPL-FM, part of Louisville Public Media in Kentucky, has hired Tara Anderson as arts and culture correspondent.
“For years, Gerald was the epicenter of everything creative at GPB,” said a colleague.
Schechter, known when he began his career in 1970 as “The News Dissector” on WBCN-FM in Boston, went on to become an award-winning producer.
“The result we need is more robust local reporting for national audiences.”
Keese “went out of her way to find the human element of any story.”
The daily culture program, distributed by PRI, fired host Jian Ghomeshi last fall after allegations of his sexual improprieties surfaced.
Siceloff helped create Now with Bill Moyers, and later founded an educational nonprofit.
Dori J. Maynard, a longtime champion for diverse perspectives in journalism, died Feb. 24 at her home in West Oakland, Calif., of complications from lung cancer. She was 56. Maynard joked that the J. of her middle name stood for “journalism.” Her father, Robert C. Maynard, was the first African-American to own a major U.S. newspaper, the Oakland Tribune. Her stepmother, Nancy Hicks Maynard, was the first African-American woman to report for the New York Times.
Eric Hyyppa, g.m. of Montana PBS, moves up from professional vice-chair.
CPB recognized a pair of politicians for their support of public broadcasting during the annual Association of Public Television Stations Public Media Summit conference in Washington, D.C. on Feb. 22.
APTS awarded the David J. Brugger Lay Leadership Award to Hilma Prather of Kentucky Feb. 22 at its Public Media Summit in Washington, D.C.
Bowles was senior executive of WBGO-FM from 1993 to 2014.
“I’m proud of having built the center and led it for the last 15 years, and delighted to promote its continuity into the next academic generation,” Pat Aufderheide said.
A public radio general manager recalls a taping of the late host’s Says You!.
Roll sold radio, television and digital underwriting at WHYY for 23 years.
The opportunity to grow a podcasting audience for a company that’s producing some of his favorite shows appealed to Bannon.