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Johnny Lee Walker named station manager of KBEM
Walker joined KBEM in 2020.LaFontaine Oliver to step down as New York Public Radio CEO
Oliver will stay on as executive chair.Comings and goings: STLPR adds editorial leader, WAMU hires reporters …
Rob Edwards and Brian Heffernan will co-lead St. Louis Public Radio’s newsroom.How we can extend Bill Moyers’ legacy to public service media
Moyers was intensely dedicated to our cause. We owe it to him and his memory to carry on the struggle in his ...What Bill Moyers had to say about protecting American freedoms
Throughout his groundbreaking work in journalism, Moyers urged us to be steadfast in defending the freedoms guaranteed in the Declaration of Independence, ...Comings and goings: NPR VP leaves network, WXXI hires chief of staff …
Keith Jenkins, VP of visuals and music strategy for NPR, left the network.Suzanne Nance to leave All Classical Radio CEO post
Nance’s achievements include the 2019 launch of the International Children’s Arts Network.Former PBS publicist Carrie Lane Johnson dies at 68
Over the course of her decades-long career, Johnson managed publicity campaigns for hundreds of PBS programs.Radio Research Consortium promotes Molly Davis to CEO
Davis, RRC’s COO, begins her new role July 1.Comings and goings: Jayme Swain elected PBS board vice chair, Chicago Public Media hires chief ...
Jayme Swain was elected professional vice chair for the PBS board of directors.Steve Lama, former program producer and exec in TV and radio, dies at 70
Lama worked on pledge and performance programming for PBS and later was VP of programming for KUSC-FM and the University of Southern ...Valerie Kahler named ‘Performance Today’ host
Fred Child, who has hosted the program for 25 years, will step down in October.Hasanna Birdsong to lead Lehigh Valley Public Media as CEO
Birdsong, now managing director at a packaging engineering and consulting company, is a former advertising executive for a local newspaper and website. ...Comings and goings: NPR appoints National Desk chief editor, Nebraska Public Media hires CTO …
Catherine Laidlaw was promoted to chief editor of NPR’s National Desk.IndiJ Public Media names Katie Oyan CEO
Oyan, a member of the Oglala Sioux Tribe, has spent about 20 years at the AP.
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