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Newsman Bill Moyers sets January 2015 as retirement date — really
Moyers, 80, has produced and anchored public-affairs programs and numerous specials on public television since 1971.CPB Board members elect Sembler and Gilbert as new leadership
The CPB Board elected new leadership Tuesday in two unanimous votes. Chairing the governing body is Elizabeth Sembler, a Florida educator, with ...Mattioni to retire from WVTF, Saidi joins KCPT, and other comings and goings in public ...
Rick Mattioni, who signed on at WVTF-FM in Roanoke, Va., in 1987, will retire Oct. 3 as director of programming and operations.Senate approves three Obama nominees for CPB Board of Directors
The Senate approved three members of the CPB Board Thursday, one returning and two new. The three were nominated by President Obama ...Jones steps aside as PBS COO; Kerger announces additional executive hires
Michael Jones, PBS’s chief operating officer since January 2009, is moving into an advisory role as executive vice president. In a Sept. 9 ...Former HiT president to take over leadership of Sesame Workshop
Sesame Workshop has hired Jeffrey D. Dunn, former CEO of the HiT Entertainment Network, as its new CEO.Plane crash claims lives of two WXXI board members, major donors
Two major donors and board members of Rochester, N.Y., dual licensee WXXI died Sept. 5 after their plane crashed in the ocean ...The time Joan Rivers didn’t become an NPR host
With the death of Joan Rivers, Jay Kernis, former senior v.p. for programming at NPR, shared this remembrance of Rivers on his ...Friends group of Miami’s WLRN fires CEO Victor Kendall
Kendall had been with the organization since June 2012.William Greaves, documentary filmmaker and Black Journal EP, dies at 87
William Greaves, a documentary filmmaker and executive producer and co-host of a pioneering public TV show for African-Americans, died Monday at his ...Roe heads classical institute, Arnold to exit WXPR, and other comings and goings in public ...
Peg Arnold, g.m. of WXPR-FM in Rhinelander, Wis., begins work Sept. 22 as g.m. of Utah Public Radio in Logan.Sherlock adds three Emmys in primetime ceremony
Sherlock: His Last Vow, a BBC production that aired as part of WGBH’s Masterpiece, won three Primetime Emmys at the televised awards ceremony Monday. That brought ...Sherlock, Downton Abbey lead PBS to eight wins in Creative Arts Emmys
Sherlock: His Last Vow won four of the eight Creative Arts Emmys awarded to PBS programs by the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences ...CPB bumps up two, “Blues Doctor” retires, and more comings and goings in public media
CPB has promoted two executives, Greg Schnirring and Erika Pulley-Hayes.Pubcasters take home 17 NABJ honors, and more awards in public media
NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF BLACK JOURNALISTS Public broadcasters received 17 Salute to Excellence Awards from NABJ with NPR, Chicago’s WBEZ and Milwaukee Public Television ...
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