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CPB provides $1.9M to bolster editorial oversight at NPR
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The grant follows NPR’s earlier plan to create a “Backstop” team to review news reporting.
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The grant follows NPR’s earlier plan to create a “Backstop” team to review news reporting.
A $100,000 grant from Press Forward will help Radio Catskill in New York hire at least one additional reporter.
The board will seat Joe O’Connor, CEO of WFAE, and Mike Savage, GM of WEKU.
Delan is the second veteran WETA executive to move into a consulting role this year.
Schachter was previously VP for news at WNYC.
The job change is part of a management restructuring that elevates Mike Sauter to GM of WYEP.
Podcasts have been a “huge return on investment for us and a major growth engine for our business,” says NPR CFO Deborah Cowan.
Simensky is now Head of PBS Kids content, a new position.
Ballard helped launch the station, then WUCM, in 1964.
The station is facing “severe cash flow issues,” according to a statement from its board of directors.
By providing more support to emerging filmmakers, EP Chris Hastings aims to bring more exposure to their documentaries and to World.
Nancy Barnes’ remarks during the Public Radio Program Directors Association conference left staffers feeling “uncertain about the direction of this newsroom,” they wrote in a letter to Barnes.