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Julie Shapiro heads to Radiotopia, baseball veteran joins KET, and other comings and goings in ...
Shapiro co-founded the Third Coast International Audio Festival.Audible scoops up content team from ‘Radiolab’, public radio
A former NPR exec brings three radio producers to the digital media company.Vossen rises at ‘Independent Lens,’ Gilliam directs radio at LPM, and other comings and goings ...
Lois Vossen, former deputy e.p. at the doc showcase, has moved up to executive producer.Tess Vigeland on her new book and leaving ‘Marketplace Money’
What would make you give up on your dream gig? The former Marketplace Money host had to answer that question for herself when she ...Sesame Workshop hires three executives, Met Opera radio gets a new voice, and other comings ...
Mary Jo Heath is only the fourth host of the Metropolitan Opera radio broadcast since 1931.PBS hires Shane Guiter as development v.p.
Guiter was previously c.o.o. at KCPT.WAMU hires Andi McDaniel as head of content
McDaniel comes from Twin Cities Public Television.Kartemquin’s Justine Nagan to lead PBS’s ‘POV’
Nagan succeeds Simon Kilmurry, who left July 6 to head the International Documentary Association.Elsie Hillman, avid WQED supporter and longtime philanthropist, dies at 89
Hillman “was part of the WQED family since before its inception,” said President Deborah Acklin.How a militant Puerto Rican activist group influenced public media
After raising hell in the streets of Spanish Harlem, several of the Young Lords got into broadcasting and journalism.NPR book critic Alan Cheuse dies at 75
“In two minutes every week, Alan paid his respects to good writing in his soft, intense, passionate voice.”PBS announces upcoming departure of programming executive Donald Thoms
Thoms has concentrated mainly on arts and drama programs, overseeing projects such as the PBS Arts Fall Festival.Greater Public losing Fox, Siegal takes helm of BizLab, and other comings and goings in ...
June Fox worked at Greater Public, formerly DEI, for 15 years.WGBH cameraman Frank Lane dies; recorded historic James Brown concert
Lane worked at the Boston public broadcaster from 1968 through his retirement in 2003.‘Maria’ retires from ‘Sesame Street,’ Matt Martinez leaves NPR and other comings and goings in ...
Sonia Manzano is widely credited with being the first leading Latina on television.
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