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Bobby Jackson, public radio jazz fixture, dies at 57
Bobby Jackson, a longtime jazz host, producer and program director, died Dec. 9 at his home in Cleveland. He was 57. Jackson ...Savage takes over at WBAA-FM, TPR hires Slocum, Myatt returns to consulting, and more
Mike Savage is the new g.m. at WBAA-FM in West Lafayette, Ind. The 20-year pubradio veteran most recently ran WKCC-FM in Kankakee, ...Phil Charles, former g.m. of Montana’s KGLT-FM, dies at 65
Phil Charles, retired longtime g.m. of KGLT-FM in Bozeman, Mont., died Nov. 29 of heart failure at his home in Cape May ...Bruce Franchini, veteran pubTV producer and director, dies at 69
Bruce Franchini, a producer and director for San Francisco’s KQED-TV, died Nov. 13 of cancer. He was 69.Seidel, Malesky and Carvin taking NPR buyouts, will exit by year’s end
NPR news executive Stu Seidel and librarian Kee Malesky have accepted buyout offers from NPR, and social media strategist Andy Carvin has ...Robert Shepherd, veteran Nashville pubTV g.m., dies at 80
Robert Shepherd, longtime g.m. of the TV station that would become Nashville Public Television, died Nov. 21 at his Nashville home after ...OETA Foundation selects WPBT’s Jackson as next president
Daphne Dowdy Jackson, v.p. of development and marketing at WPBT in Miami, moves in January to assume leadership of the OETA Foundation, ...Texas Public Radio selects NPR’s Slocum to lead station
Joyce Slocum, chief administrative officer at NPR, takes over as president and c.e.o. of Texas Public Radio Jan. 6, the San Antonio-based ...Robert Conley, first host of All Things Considered, dies at 85
Robert Conley, the first host of NPR’s All Things Considered, died of parotid cancer Nov. 16 at his home in Virginia. He was 85. ...Lydon returns to Boston’s WBUR with new weekly show
Boston’s WBUR announced today that Christopher Lydon will rejoin the station to host and produce a weekly hourlong show, Open Source with Christopher Lydon. ...American Geophysical Union hires Rehm, Johnson to head Iowa Pubradio, Vermont creates digital news team ...
AGU is a nonprofit association representing more than 62,000 Earth and space scientists. In her new job, former NPR spokesperson Dana Davis ...NPR’s Slocum honored for leadership and service to public radio
The Public Radio Regional Organizations presented the annual PRRO Award Nov. 13 to NPR Chief Administrative Officer Joyce Slocum, whose five years ...Samuel English III, Aviation Weather host, dies at 79
Samuel James English III, host of Aviation Weather, a series produced and distributed by Maryland Public Television in the 1970s, died Nov. 3 of ...Raul Ramirez, longtime news director at KQED, dies at 67
Raul Ramirez, executive director of news and public affairs at San Francisco’s KQED, died Nov. 15 in Berkeley. He was 67 and ...Moyers reverses decision to end show, which goes to 30 minutes in January
BOSTON — Bill Moyers, the journalist and veteran PBS personality who has come out of retirement at least twice to mount new ...
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