Tag: People in Public Media
CPI hires four, Abumrad gets $500K MacArthur fellowship, three join FCC panel, and more…
Ellen Weiss, the NPR News chief who took the network’s blame for the Juan Williams affair, has joined the Center for Public ...Gary Knell, Sesame Workshop c.e.o., hired as NPR president
Gary E. Knell, president and c.e.o. of Sesame Workshop for a decade, will start work Dec. 1 with the same titles at ...Moyers returns in January with weekly hour
The latest incarnation of Bill Moyers’ distinctive brand of talk programming will be the hourlong, multiplatform Moyers & Company, distributed by American Public Television. ...PBSd venture and MHz project aim to export public television
Television viewers in Great Britain, the Middle East, Russia and India could soon be watching American public TV shows, if two initiatives ...A comic book to explain media? — a scene so sad that it’s funny
Long after giving a title to her new serious comic book, On the Media co-host Brooke Gladstone is having to explain it away. When ...NPR loses c.e.o., its third exec swept away by political tornado
One day after denouncing her top fundraiser and nine weeks after asking her news chief to resign, NPR President Vivian Schiller stepped ...Escape of the Grannies
... The two Grannies and their tour group of 14 were, for the moment, safely ensconced in comfortable floating quarters as mobs ...Soon off to war for APTS: new president, Pat Butler
Patrick Butler, public TV’s new chief lobbyist, wrote speeches for President Gerald Ford, was a founder of the Pew Research Center, and ...No show in Escondido for Mister Rogers’ ‘successor’
Michael Kinsell imagined that his Michael’s Enchanted Neighborhood show would replace Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood on public television. Instead, Kinsell and his dream ended up on The ...Young promoter cancels his debut as Fred Rogers’ successor
Michael Kinsell, who planned to present himself as the next Mister Rogers at a controversial gala on Sunday in San Diego, told Current ...PBS objects to fundraiser by ‘successor’ to Mister Rogers
PBS is accusing a San Diego teenager of “falsely claiming association” with the network and Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood. He is selling tickets for a ...Diversity: More than good intentions?
Several minority advocates who received the report said they appreciated PBS’s effort, but they found it wanting.Schiller hit ‘every point’ on NPR’s c.e.o. wish list
NPR’s next president made one giant leap in the news business two years ago when she moved from long-form documentary production into ...Stern lost support in his tryout as No. 1 at NPR
There was no single reason why the NPR Board ended Ken Stern’s 18-month run as chief executive officer — or at least ...Paths to pubradio stardom: drifting, struggling and on a beeline
Lisa A. Phillips has just started appearing in bookstores to promote her newly published Public Radio Behind the Voices (CDS Books, 334 pages), which ...
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