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The board will seat Joe O’Connor, CEO of WFAE, and Mike Savage, GM of WEKU.
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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.
Simensky is now Head of PBS Kids content, a new position.
Cunningham has held the position on an interim basis since January.
David Safar previously worked as head of music, artist and label relations for the Minnesota Public Radio station.
Among other new staffers, NPR named Krishnadev Calamur deputy Washington editor.
Murphy will build the newsroom’s first investigative reporting unit.
Gerdeman is starting a consulting service after more than five years at PBS.
Garry Denny has worked for Wisconsin Public Television for 33 years.
After nearly five years as PBS’ VP of news and public affairs, Nelson will work on strategies to attract multicultural audiences to ABC News.
Mendenhall has worked in radio for more than 40 years, 18 of them at KUT/KUTX.
The hosts had been splitting their time between the news shows and NPR’s “Planet Money.”
Pacifica’s board has selected an interim executive director.
Danzico joined NPR as creative director in 2013.
NPR’s former VP of technology operations retired earlier this month.
Dru Sefton has been a senior editor at Current for nearly 11 years.
Arizona PBS has hired two new directors.
Stephanie Witte had held NPR’s top development job since 2017.