Tag: People in Public Media
Rath goes from Frontline to WATC, Zuckerman steps in for Grech at WLRN in Miami, and more ...
Frontline's Arun Rath will join NPR in late September as host of Weekend All Things Considered, which is relocating to studios at NPR West in ...Delmarva Public Radio selects Whitehair as general manager
Dana Whitehair arrives this week as the new general manager for financially struggling Delmarva Public Radio in Salisbury, Md., whose licensee will ...American Masters chooses first strategist, Lubinsky returns to radio, and more . . .
Pledge legend TJ Lubinsky, whose retro musical revue shows have raised multiple millions of dollars for public television over 20 years, has ...Yore to depart Marketplace as American Public Media downsizes
J.J. Yore, a veteran producer credited as a creator of the public radio show Marketplace, was one of three senior executives riffed June ...Nelson swaps WGBH for WQED, Currá takes over for Kelly at WVIA, and more . ...
At dual licensee WVIA in Pittston, Pa., Tom Currá has succeeded Bill Kelly as president and c.e.o.; Kelly will concentrate on the ...Yore departs Marketplace as APM pares executive ranks
J.J. Yore, a veteran producer credited as a creator of the public radio show Marketplace, was one of three senior executives riffed June 17 ...DEI group unites public media’s young professionals
A group of young public media professionals who began meeting informally last year to network and share ideas has moved to step ...Ford Foundation hires Mertes, Howland and Marshall sign on at NETA Business Center, and more ...
Cara Mertes, the incoming head of the Ford Foundation’s JustFilms, previously served as executive director of American Documentary Inc., a job that ...Chacón fills new content position at WBUR, OPB hires new engineering v.p., and more . ...
WBUR-FM in Boston has hired Richard Chacón as executive director of news content, and promoted Tom Melville to news director. Chacón takes ...Roth retires after 45 years, Leonard takes helm at NET, and more . . .
KUOW President Wayne Roth, a former NPR Board chair and past recipient of CPB’s Murrow Award honoring outstanding contributions to public radio, ...Blazing her own path as a pubTV broadcast engineer
The first television broadcast in China was transmitted in 1958. The first time that Ling Ling Sun watched a television program was ...WMFE-FM hires WEAA’s LaFontaine Oliver as new president
Orlando pubcaster WMFE-FM has hired LaFontaine Oliver as its new president and g.m., replacing José Fajardo who left in December 2012. Oliver ...KUOW’s Wayne Roth, co-founder of SRG, to retire in September
Wayne Roth, longtime station chief at Seattle’s KUOW-FM and a past recipient of CPB’s Murrow Award honoring outstanding contributions to public radio, ...NET selects Leonard to replace longtime station head Bates
Mark Leonard, g.m. for Illinois Public Media in Urbana, takes over as g.m. and c.e.o. of NET in Lincoln, Neb., Aug. 1. He ...Everhart promoted to Current managing editor
Karen Everhart, a media reporter and editor who has covered public broadcasting at Current for more than two decades, has been promoted to ...
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