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Samuel Chamberlin Newbury, ‘Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood’ producer, dies at 69
Samuel Chamberlin Newbury, who served as director of productions for Fred Rogers Co. for nearly three decades, died May 22 at his ...Rooney drops WGBH host role, Castadio exits pubcasting, and other comings and goings in public ...
After hosting WGBH’s Greater Boston for 18 years, Emily Rooney is scaling back her role to focus on the weekly Beat the Press program.Dorothy Peterson, CPB program officer, dies at 79
Peterson worked on several projects for CPB and the National Endowment for the Humanities and mentored younger CPB staffers.Yore tapped as new g.m. of Washington, D.C.’s WAMU
JJ Yore, co-creator of public radio’s Marketplace and a former v.p. and executive producer with American Public Media, will step into a station leadership ...Chuck Furman, founding program manager of WGVU, dies at 73
Furman helped launch WGVU-TV in Grand Rapids, Mich., and served as its assistant g.m. in charge of community relations for 25 years.PIC names executive director, KCETLink reorganizes execs, and more comings and goings in public media
Pacific Islanders in Communications, part of the National Minority Consortia, has promoted Leanne Ferrer to executive director and announced two additional appointments. ...NPR names media exec and venture capitalist Jarl Mohn as new CEO
Philanthropist, investor and former cable TV executive Jarl Mohn will join NPR as its new c.e.o. July 1, the network’s board announced ...With retirement ahead, EP of PBS NewsHour reflects on her start in broadcasting
Linda Winslow rose from covering a fireman's muster in small-town Massachusetts to leading a signature news program on public TV.Kenneth Tomlinson, CPB chair at center of scandal, dies at 69
Tomlinson, a former Reader’s Digest editor and CPB Board chair who mounted a behind-the-scenes campaign to balance what he saw as a liberal bias ...Jones steps down from helm of National Black Programming Consortium
Jacquie Jones, executive director of the National Black Programming Consortium (NBPC) since 2005, has resigned, effective immediately, but will continue to produce ...Center for Public Integrity and Investigative News Network each grow by two, and other comings ...
The Center for Public Integrity, a nonprofit investigative newsroom, has hired William Gray and Eleanor Bell. Television producer Gray joins as media relations ...Robert Knight, WBAI investigative journalist, dies at 64
Knight was a Polk Award-winning investigative reporter for New York's Pacifica affiliate.Bell exits NewsHour, Newman departs NPR, and more comings and goings in pubmedia
Bell will manage public relations for US Pharmacopeia (USP) in Rockville, Md., a nonprofit that works with the Food and Drug Administration ...Patrick Baroch, ITVS community engagement producer, dies at 45
Baroch joined the organization in 2005 and was part of the engagement crew that launched the Community Cinema program.Pierre Capretz, French in Action creator, dies at 89
The Yale French professor based the WGBH soap-opera series off his own language-learning curriculum.
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