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
Alvarado joins CIR, Knight fellows announced, NewsHour hires new managing editor, and more…
Posted: May 14, 2012Alvarado, a former APM and CPB exec, is joining the Center for Investigative Reporting The nonprofit news organization announced on May 2 that Alvarado will serve as chief strategy officer and work to expand membership, engage diverse audiences and increase … Continue reading
NewsHour‘s Judy Woodruff and former CPB Chair Ernest Wilson III have been elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
Posted: April 23, 2012The academy, an independent policy research center, was founded in 1780 in Cambridge, Mass. Woodruff and Wilson, now dean of the Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism at the University of Southern California, join 4,000 fellows and 600 foreign honorary … Continue reading
MPT hires new v.p., Sill to be KPCC’s executive editor, three Illinois pubcasters retire, and more…
Posted: April 9, 2012Rick Lore is Maryland Public Television’s new v.p. and chief development officer Lore is responsible for membership, on-air fundraising, major and planned giving, publications, outreach and community engagement at the state network headquartered in Owings Mills. Lore joined MPT on … Continue reading
Chapin moves from CNN to NPR, C-SPAN founder steps down, and more…
Posted: March 26, 2012NPR tapped CNN veteran Edith Chapin to run its foreign desk News chief Margaret Low Smith announced Chapin’s appointment last week along with another change on its foreign desk: Didi Schanche, a former Associated Press correspondent and editor who joined … Continue reading
Mundt to NPR, APM lays off Alvarado, Pulitzer-winning cartoonist joins WHYY, and more…
Posted: March 12, 2012NPR has hired Todd Mundt as editorial director for NPR Digital Services In his new position, Mundt will help stations develop digital content strategies and oversee news training offered to them. He now serves as v.p. and chief content officer … Continue reading
Current transition: Behrens to Everhart
Posted: March 12, 2012Karen Everhart, senior editor of Current for 20 years, will succeed founding editor Steve Behrens after this edition. Larry Kirkman, dean of the American University School of Communication, appointed Everhart as interim managing editor. She joined Current in 1992 and covered public TV … Continue reading
Alex Chadwick: Recharged to cover an energetic beat
Posted: February 27, 2012Alex Chadwick was lost. It took a journey to an unlikely place — the whitewater rapids of a Utah canyon — for him to find his way back to radio. In 2008, Chadwick found himself absent from the airwaves for … Continue reading