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Maurice Bernstein, NPR folk-music host, dies at 74
Maurice Bernstein, producer and host of one of NPR’s first nationally distributed music programs, Folk Music and Bernstein, died Nov. 9 at ...With board appointment, Pacifica’s executive director drops “interim” from title
The board of the Pacifica Foundation on Monday appointed Summer Reese executive director of the five-station radio network, a position she has ...Brisk pace of turnover among pubmedia’s top execs in 2013
A new wind of change is blowing through public media organizations of all shapes and sizes, sweeping through executive offices as top ...With board support gone, KBOO leader calls it quits
The Portland community station has new leadership at the top and on its board after a failed bid to revamp workplace practices.Mathes heading west to KUOW, Herring gone from PBS, ‘Political Junkie’ Rudin returns and more ...
Mathes will succeed longtime KUOW leader Wayne Roth, who announced his retirement in May. She begins the new job Jan. 2, 2014.Iowa Public Radio names new executive director
Myrna Johnson, a former government relations associate for NPR who now directs a Boston nonprofit, has been named the next executive director ...Pat Fitzgerald, longtime WBGU g.m., dies at 69
Pat Fitzgerald, g.m. of WBGU-TV in Bowling Green, Ohio, for more than two decades, died Oct. 30 of a stroke in his ...Ray Suarez lands at AJA’s D.C.-based newsmag Inside Story
Veteran public broadcasting newsman Ray Suarez, who resigned from PBS NewsHour Oct. 25 after nearly 15 years, will host Inside Story on satellite news channel Al ...Latino advocacy group criticizes PBS treatment of newsman Ray Suarez
A grass-roots organization that protested Ken Burns’s exclusion of World War II Latino soldiers’ experiences from his 2007 documentary The War is speaking out ...WBAI interim p.d. quits over fundraising programming
Andrew Phillips resigned last month as interim p.d. of Pacifica’s WBAI in New York, a post he accepted less than three months ...Elaine Rivera, former WNYC reporter, dies at 54
Elaine Rivera, a reporter for New York’s WNYC from 2006–09, died Oct. 26. She was 54. The cause of death has not ...Bill Moyers ending Moyers & Company in January
Bill Moyers announced today to his colleagues in public TV that the last broadcast of his Moyers & Company public-affairs show will air Jan. ...Morgese accepts GM post at KUED-TV
Veteran pubcaster James Morgese will take over Dec. 1 as GM of KUED-TV in Salt Lake City. Morgese has more than 30 years ...Walter Sheppard, former grant officer for PTFP, dies at 82
Walter Sheppard, a veteran public radio general manager who worked for the federal government’s Public Telecommunications Facilities Program for more than two ...PBS Station Services chief to exit next week
Joyce Herring, s.v.p. of station services for PBS, is leaving the network Oct. 31, President Paula Kerger announced today in an email ...
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