Programs/Content
Noel King leaves NPR for Vox Media
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Public radio listeners will continue to hear King on stations when “Today, Explained” is distributed next year.
‘Jacksonville Today’ newsletter aims to broaden audience for WJCT News coverage
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Rollout of the public broadcaster’s digital news brand includes launching a website next year.
People
Central Vermont Community Radio hires station manager
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CVCR’s WGDR/WGDH gained independence earlier this year.
People
How Cokie Roberts landed at NPR: ‘They wanted her included because they loved her’
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In an excerpt from his new book, “Cokie: A Life Well Lived,” Steve Roberts recounts how Cokie Roberts overcame obstacles in her path to working at NPR with some help from “the old girls’ network.”
Programs/Content
‘Criminal’ will leave Radiotopia to join Vox Media
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The move will allow Criminal Productions to expand its staff and namesake podcast.
People
Comings and goings: Maribel Lopez leads PBS Digital Studios, Melissa Wright to leave TPT …
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Lopez most recently worked for TPT in St. Paul, Minn.
Programs/Content
Pipeline 2022: Our annual survey of shows coming to public TV
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This year’s Pipeline list includes 121 series and specials in the works for January 2022 and beyond.
Obituaries
NPR editor Petra Mayer dies at 46
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“She was ferociously intelligent, sardonically funny and made your day better by merely existing.”
System/Policy
New Orleans Public Radio expands classical network
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A format change will bring the broadcaster’s all-classical service to the Houma-Thibodaux region.
Development
WTVP acquires local magazine with support from angel investors
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CEO Lesley Matuszak sees the publication’s events business as an opportunity to boost station revenues.
Programs/Content
Upcoming shows refresh food and travel genres with multicultural focus
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“The Great American Recipe,” “America Outdoors with Baratunde Thurston” and “American Historia” all bring new angles to familiar formulas.
People
Comings and goings: Nine PBS promotes Denise Kahle to CFO, Antonia Carew-Watts becomes ITVS VP …
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Kahle joined Nine PBS in 2017 as accounting manager and has also been controller.