NPR has hired Monique Hanson, from YMCA of the USA, as its chief development officer. Hanson joined the YMCA in 2004 and  served as senior v.p. and chief development officer for the $5 billion organization. In her position at NPR, Hanson will oversee NPR’s fundraising programs and work with stations and the trustees of the NPR Foundation Inc., a private nonprofit. “Monique has the experience needed to take NPR to new heights in fundraising,” said NPR President Gary Knell in a press release. “She brings vision and a collaborative spirit that will help us forge innovative partnerships with NPR member stations across the country.

Producers of Austin City Limits have recorded more than 800 performances of the PBS rock music series during the past 37 years, but there are hours of footage that loyal viewers and music fans don’t even know about. Access to never-broadcast performances will come soon under a deal with Cleveland’s Rock and Roll Hall of Fame...

Marketplace Money host Tess Vigeland is departing the American Public Media show at the end of November. APM said Vigeland will continue as a contributor. Vigeland joined the program in 2001, as host of Marketplace Morning Report. She took over her current hosting duties in 2006.  “From my days as a cub reporter in the early ’90’s,” Vigeland said in a press release, “I knew I wanted to someday work at Marketplace. Any show that had that much fun on the air had to be a great place to do the news — not to mention ‘The Numbers.‘” She added, “I will miss our listeners more than I can express.”

Underwriters of public radio programs increasingly want to link their names more closely to particular stories and reporting projects, according to station executives, a trend that is requiring journalists to be more vigilant in fighting perceptions of potential conflicts of interest.

After discussions lasting nearly a year, New Hampshire Public Television and Boston’s WGBH have hammered out a collaboration to coordinate program schedules and consolidate some back-office operations. The agreement stops short of a merger, and each station will remain independently owned and operated. The arrangement will bring PBS’s full common-carriage schedule to the entire state of New Hampshire beginning in October, a departure from the current setup, under which NHPTV time-shifts the PBS national lineup because of a partial signal overlap with WGBH. The cost savings from outsourcing some technical and administrative functions — including master control and broadcast technologies, membership services and financial administration — to the Massachusetts station will allow NHPTV to revive a local student quiz show, Granite State Challenge.

Roy Clem, a 36-year broadcasting executive and former g.m. of the ABC affiliate in Birmingham, Ala., will join Alabama Public Television as its executive director, replacing longtime pubcaster Allan Pizzato, who was fired in June. The Alabama Educational Television Commission made the announcement at its meeting Saturday (Aug. 18). Clem most recently served as director of commercial broadcasting and g.m. for broadcast operations for the University of Alabama College of Communication and Information Services. His responsibilities included the university’s Center for Public Television and Radio, which produces series, specials and corporate videos on topics including history, sports, arts and culture, health and business.

The financially troubled Pacifica Foundation has new interim leadership following an Aug. 16 vote by its national board to immediately replace Executive Director Arlene Engelhardt.

Loris Taylor, president of Native Public Media, leads off a story in The Atlantic on how radio is being used to resurrect dead and dying languages. The mag reports that Taylor has lobbied the FCC and supported projects to get “increasingly rare tongues like Hopi” onto the airwaves. And it’s happening worldwide: Radio producers from Peru, Mexico, Canada, El Salvador and other countries met in Washington, D.C., earlier this month for the “Our Voices on the Air” conference for indigenous speakers. “Following centuries of oppression that have marginalized minority languages,” The Atlantic notes, “radio represents a modest but surprisingly promising way to reinvigorate the traditions keeping those languages alive.”

GOP Presidential hopeful Mitt Romney has once again mentioned that if elected, he would eliminate funding for PBS. In an interview with Fortune, the former Massachusetts governor said: “There are three major areas I have focused on for reduction in spending. These are in many cases reductions which become larger and larger over time. So first there are programs I would eliminate. Obamacare being one of them but also various subsidy programs —  the Amtrak subsidy, the PBS subsidy, the subsidy for the National Endowment for the Arts, the National Endowment for the Humanities. Some of these things, like those endowment efforts and PBS, I very much appreciate and like what they do in many cases, but I just think they have to strand on their own rather than receiving money borrowed from other countries, as our government does on their behalf.”

Nova is looking to "broaden the PBS science strand’s appeal with more ‘lighthearted’ host-driven programming.

NPR has hired Monique Hanson, senior v.p. and chief development officer for YMCA of the USA, as its chief development officer. Hanson joined the YMCA in 2004 and has since served as chief fundraising strategist for the $5 billion organization. In her position at NPR, Hanson will oversee NPR’s fundraising programs and work with stations and the Trustees of the NPR Foundation, Inc., a private nonprofit. “Monique has the experience needed to take NPR to new heights in fundraising. She brings vision and a collaborative spirit that will help us forge innovative partnerships with NPR member stations across the country,” said NPR President Gary Knell in a press release.

The nonprofit Center for Investigative Reporting (CIR) is partnering with Spanish-language Univision News, which reaches 96 percent of U.S. Hispanic households, to produce investigative stories for Spanish-speaking viewers in the United States and Latin America, the two announced today. CIR will provide Univision access to CIR stories and documentaries focusing mainly on the West Coast and Latin America for all broadcast platforms, including Univision’s newscast Noticiero Univision, and its weekly magazine Aqui y Ahora. Univision News will also have access to CIR print reports for translation. Univision News’ investigative and documentary unit, Documentales Univision, focuses on subjects of interest to the Hispanic community including immigration, health, education and politics.