The announcement brings an end to a two-year search to replace longtime President Doug Eichten.

Sara Schapiro recently helped found Digital Promise, an independent bipartisan nonprofit that backs educational innovation.

Organizers delivered petitions to members of Congress, bearing 660,000 signatures gathered online to save CPB funding.

The petitions contain more than 660,000 signatures of public broadcasting supporters.

PBS’s Beth Hoppe said her team is eyeing other American dramas.

Small and midsize stations must be especially creative in developing ways to engage and grow their pools of major donors.

Running for the first 100 days of the Trump presidency, the show wants to break down stereotypes and misperceptions by soliciting personal stories, not rants, from listeners across the country.

Future appropriations are also at risk.

Among the report’s findings is that social platforms — such as church services, hot-dog wagons and food pantries — are as important as social media for the future of public media.

The study by the Classical Music Rising initiative identifies a need for training and more diverse staffing.

“The policy is, we're ending federal involvement with the Corporation for Public Broadcasting,” said Office of Management and Budget Director Mick Mulvaney.