Ford Foundation hires Mertes, Howland and Marshall sign on at NETA Business Center, and more . . .
Posted: June, 11, 2013
By Dru Sefton
People in Public Media
Chacón fills new content position at WBUR, OPB hires new engineering v.p., and more . . .
Posted: May, 29, 2013
By Dru Sefton
Roth retires after 45 years, Leonard takes helm at NET, and more . . .
Posted: May, 21, 2013
By Dru Sefton
Everhart promoted to Current managing editor
Posted: May, 01, 2013
By Current staff
For Erbe, accident was a tumble into the unknown
Posted: October 3, 2011Bonnie Erbe’s life took an ominous turn over Memorial Day weekend, but she doesn’t remember much of what happened. The longtime host of public TV’s To the Contrary was astride her Hanoverian horse, Stand Out, that Sunday, riding in a … Continue reading
CPI hires four, Abumrad gets $500K MacArthur fellowship, three join FCC panel, and more…
Posted: October 3, 2011Ellen Weiss, the NPR News chief who took the network’s blame for the Juan Williams affair, has joined the Center for Public Integrity as its executive editor as of Oct. 3, the watchdog newsroom announced. The center is headed by … Continue reading
Gary Knell, Sesame Workshop c.e.o., hired as NPR president
Posted: October 2, 2011Gary E. Knell, president and c.e.o. of Sesame Workshop for a decade, will start work Dec. 1 with the same titles at NPR, the network announced today. The NPR Board voted unanimously to hire the widely experienced leader of a … Continue reading
Moyers returns in January with weekly hour
Posted: August 29, 2011The latest incarnation of Bill Moyers’ distinctive brand of talk programming will be the hourlong, multiplatform Moyers & Company, distributed by American Public Television. The January debut for the program — provided fully funded to pubTV stations — will mark … Continue reading
PBSd venture and MHz project aim to export public television
Posted: August 8, 2011Television viewers in Great Britain, the Middle East, Russia and India could soon be watching American public TV shows, if two initiatives get up and running in the coming months. The PBS UK channel is being bankrolled by W. David … Continue reading
A comic book to explain media? — a scene so sad that it’s funny
Posted: August 8, 2011Long after giving a title to her new serious comic book, On the Media co-host Brooke Gladstone is having to explain it away. When forced into giddy sound-bite mode on The Colbert Report July 26, she was quick to say … Continue reading
Yeah, we’ve got snobs in public radio, but also a lot of great people with mud on their boots
Posted: May 4, 2011When I first started working in public radio 30-plus years ago, I was a college dropout and my day job was butchering fish on the docks in Sitka, Alaska [map]. That’s the village where I grew up. That little public … Continue reading