Tag: People in Public Media
Seiken, PBS Digital head, will exit pubcaster for London-based post next month
Jason Seiken, PBS’s innovative head of digital media who exhorted stations to embrace a more videocentric future, will leave the public broadcaster ...PBS Board election goes to tie-breaker, Tomczyk takes on leadership of second station, and more ...
Rich Homberg, president of WTVS in Detroit, was the winner in the first tie ever for a spot on the PBS Board ...Analyst starts new firm, renames another
Public radio analyst John Sutton has established a new research firm and changed the name of his 16-year-old consulting company. Sutton announced Sept. ...New twist on the news cycle: chasing stories on two wheels
Several public broadcasting journalists now count a bike helmet among their essential reporting equipment as they pedal to cover news events and ...KCTS President Moss Bresnahan resigns, citing family issues
Moss Bresnahan, president of KCTS Television in Seattle, resigned Thursday. “My reasons for making this very difficult decision are deeply personal — to ...Syracuse’s WCNY welcomes two new execs, Echeverría and Santos host Vocalo en Español, and more ...
Jesús Echeverría and Rocío Santos are the new hosts for Chicago Public Media’s expanded Spanish-language music and talk blocks on Vocalo en ...Malatia’s exit from WBEZ leaves staff guessing
When Torey Malatia unexpectedly announced his resignation as president of WBEZ licensee Chicago Public Media Friday, July 26, news of the longtime ...CPB gets five new board members, Deggans joins NPR as its new television correspondent, and ...
Eric Deggans, a media critic at the Tampa Bay Times since 1995, will sign on as NPR’s television critic and correspondent, a new position, ...NewsHour promotes Ifill and Woodruff to helm show, as TV’s first female co-anchor team
The PBS NewsHour is reassigning its senior journalists to new roles by tapping Gwen Ifill and Judy Woodruff as co-anchors and managing editors of ...Senate approves all five presidential nominees to CPB Board
President Obama's five nominees to the CPB Board were approved Thursday night by the U.S. Senate.Several pubmedia journalists to join new Al Jazeera America network
Among the new reporters for Al Jazeera America’s 12 U.S. news bureaus are several with public media backgrounds. The New York City–based ...Malatia resigns as president of Chicago’s WBEZ
Torey Malatia, longtime president and c.e.o. of Chicago Public Media, has resigned effective immediately.After public broadcasting, David Giovannoni dives into audio’s long-lost past
Retiring from public radio finally afforded audience analyst David Giovannoni the time to turn his hobby, collecting antique phonographs and early sound ...Pisaneschi moves up to lead Idaho Public Television in August
The next general manager of Idaho Public Television is Ron Pisaneschi, now its director of content. Pisaneschi takes over Aug. 5 from ...WPBT’s Schneider accepts chief operating officer post at WETA
Rick Schneider, president of WPBT in Miami, will take over as executive vice president and chief operating officer at WETA in September, ...
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