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Proffitt to lead Pacifica, Public Media Women’s leadership program begins, and other comings and goings ...
Johnny Simmons has retired after working for 35 years at KUSP Santa Cruz, Calif.Bob Parlocha, jazz radio host, dies at 76
Parlocha hosted Jazz With Bob Parlocha, syndicated by the WFMT Radio Network in Chicago.Four new staffers at Colorado Public Radio, Marketplace hires a reporter and more comings and goings ...
WFPL-FM, part of Louisville Public Media in Kentucky, has hired Tara Anderson as arts and culture correspondent.Longtime GPB producer, writer Gerald Bryant dies at 69
“For years, Gerald was the epicenter of everything creative at GPB,” said a colleague.Danny Schechter, filmmaker and outspoken media critic, dies at 72
Schechter, known when he began his career in 1970 as “The News Dissector” on WBCN-FM in Boston, went on to become an ...NPR’s new news chief will seek to boost partnerships with member stations
“The result we need is more robust local reporting for national audiences.”Susan Keese, journalist with Vermont Public Radio, dies at 67
Keese “went out of her way to find the human element of any story.”Q selects a host, WGBH seats four trustees, and other comings and goings in public media
The daily culture program, distributed by PRI, fired host Jian Ghomeshi last fall after allegations of his sexual improprieties surfaced.Public TV producer John Siceloff dies at 61; praised as ‘great American journalist’
Siceloff helped create Now with Bill Moyers, and later founded an educational nonprofit.Dori Maynard, pioneer for diversity in journalism, dies at 56
Dori J. Maynard, a longtime champion for diverse perspectives in journalism, died Feb. 24 at her home in West Oakland, Calif., of ...Hyyppa chairs APTS board, KQSM honors host’s 90th birthday, and other comings and goings in ...
Eric Hyyppa, g.m. of Montana PBS, moves up from professional vice-chair.CPB hands out Thought Leader, American Graduate Champion awards at Public Media Summit
CPB recognized a pair of politicians for their support of public broadcasting during the annual Association of Public Television Stations Public Media ...APTS recognizes politicos, pubcasters with awards at annual Summit
APTS awarded the David J. Brugger Lay Leadership Award to Hilma Prather of Kentucky Feb. 22 at its Public Media Summit in ...Cephas Bowles, former CEO of New Jersey’s WBGO, dies at 62
Bowles was senior executive of WBGO-FM from 1993 to 2014.Center for Media & Social Impact to announce new co-executive directors
“I'm proud of having built the center and led it for the last 15 years, and delighted to promote its continuity into ...
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