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CBS online exc moving to NPR
Dick Meyer, editorial director at CBSNews.com, announced yesterday in his online column that he is moving to NPR. Meyer didn’t specify which ...Nickelodeon vet takes over at Hit
Variety reports a change in the top job at Hit Entertainment. CEO Bruce Steinberg is stepping down, and Jeffrey Dunn, a former c.o.o. ...WYPR board chair cites disagreements in Steiner firing
The dismissal of talk show host Marc Steiner from WYPR-FM in Baltimore was related to internal disagreements, reports the Baltimore Business Journal. “It became ...Reasons for Stern’s exit have more to do with dimensons of leadership than his stance ...
In a New York Times story on Ken Stern’s departure from NPR, board Chairman and interim CEO Dennis Haarsager downplays the notion ...Ken Stern resigns as NPR CEO
CEO Ken Stern is leaving NPR, the network’s board of directors announced today. The board did not explain why Stern was leaving, ...FCC will consider proposal to reallocate TV spectrum for FM
The FCC will seek comment on a recommendation to reallocate television channels 5 and 6 for FM broadcasting, according to a notice ...NPR’s new HQ to be property tax-free for two decades
NPR will not have to pay property taxes on its new home near Washington’s Union Station for 20 years, reports the Washington ...No guarantee for local bid to take over Salt Lake’s KCPW
The station manager charged with creating an independent nonprofit and viable financial plan to purchase KCPW in Salt Lake City launched a ...Ken Burns pens op-ed in support of PBS
In a piece for the Los Angeles Times, Ken Burns responds to “grandstanding politicians who believe that public television must be de-funded” ...NPR to move just north of U.S. Capitol in 2012
NPR will move into a new home in Washington’s emerging mixed use NoMA (North of Massachusetts Avenue) neighborhood in 2012, the network ...McIntyre: It’s no longer necessary to fund public broadcasting
Public broadcasting resembles the “live-in brother-in-law,” writes The Heritage Foundation’s Ken McIntyre in a column appearing in several newspapers. “For 40 years, ...Starr: McCain ‘broke the rules’
In the lefty journal The Nation, media activist Jerrold Starr offers his take on the Pittsburgh pubcasting piece of the McCain/lobbyist issue.Daljit Dhaliwal to be the face of upcoming Global Watch
Daljit Dhaliwal has been chosen to anchor KCET’s upcoming Global Watch, an international news program premiering on PBS April 9. Dhaliwal is ...Sawaya stays at Pacifica
Nicole Sawaya has agreed to stay on as executive director of the Pacifica radio network, according to interim e.d. Dan Siegel. She ...Nonprofit leaders: hard to retain, tough to recruit
Inadequate pay, burnout and overwhelming pressure to raise money are driving nonprofit executives to plot their exits within five years, and their ...
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