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Float away with a dreamy batch of tunes by your public media colleagues.Comings and goings: PBS welcomes new board members, NETA names Simmons content VP …
The network's new board members include three station representatives and two general directors.Rick Lewis, producer and manager who guided ‘Morning Edition,’ ‘Marketplace’ to air, dies at 71
As manager of KLON, Lewis tried to build a “tiny jazz station” into a national producer.Hear tunes by pubmedia musicians that hit the blue notes
These contributors to our Public Media Rocks playlist are tapping into classic and contemporary jazz and blues sounds.Leadership to change at Northern California Public Media
The station's co-founder and CEO will step down in December.Cokie Roberts, a ‘founding mother’ who helped define NPR’s political coverage, dies at 75
“I don’t know how they’re going to find a church big enough to hold the mourners,” said Nina Totenberg, her friend and ...Comings and goings: Stations elect NPR board members, Kroc fellows start at network
The board will seat Joe O’Connor, CEO of WFAE, and Mike Savage, GM of WEKU.Dalton Delan leaves WETA after 21 years with station
Delan is the second veteran WETA executive to move into a consulting role this year.New Hampshire Public Radio hires Jim Schachter as next leader
Schachter was previously VP for news at WNYC.Sutton to lead audience and development division for Pittsburgh stations
The job change is part of a management restructuring that elevates Mike Sauter to GM of WYEP.Comings and goings: PBS promotes Simensky, newsroom expands in Hawaii …
Simensky is now Head of PBS Kids content, a new position.Bill Ballard, founder of Michigan’s WDCQ-TV, dies at 90
Ballard helped launch the station, then WUCM, in 1964.Kyle Cunningham takes top job at Colorado’s KRCC
Cunningham has held the position on an interim basis since January.Comings and goings: The Current names first managing director, NPR’s Schmitz heads to Berlin …
David Safar previously worked as head of music, artist and label relations for the Minnesota Public Radio station.Playing with sound at work and on the side: Electronic tracks from our pubmedia playlist
These tunes have a glitchy vibe that only professional sound nerds could come up with.
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