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Job cuts across radio, TV, newspapers, and digital media rose 18% last year compared to 2024, and those still employed in the newsroom are feeling it acutely. That's the most alarming finding in Cision's 2026 State of the Media report, which surveyed 1,899 journalists across 19 global markets during January and February.

The trade organization and political advocacy group representing some 500 small and medium-sized MVPDs has shared the results of the reelection of officers to its Board of Directors and Executive Committee.

After more than six years, Matt Stockman is stepping down as Chief Programming Officer at Pillar Media to focus on his consulting practice serving nonprofit and Christian radio organizations in a full-time capacity. His last day at Pillar will be August 31.

The VP of News for the two NBCU Local Telemundo Station Group properties serving Hispanics across Arizona has been appointed News Director for both the Telemundo and NBC owned-and-operated properties serving the Cradle of Liberty and the entire Delaware Valley.

The Library of American Broadcasting Foundation has unveiled the four recipients of its inaugural LABF Preservation Grants. Each of the selected applicants will receive a grant of $2,500 to be used to preserve specific elements of broadcast history.

His resume features stations once owned by Doubleday prior to their sale to Emmis Broadcasting. Now, many industry veterans are pausing to remember Pat McNally, who died on May 7.

She's been associated with the nation's largest single owner of broadcast television stations since May 2009 and before that was VP of Legal Affairs for First Broadcasting. Now, she will serve as Executive VP/General Counsel and Secretary to the Board of Directors of the company founded 30 years ago by Perry Sook.

He's been nestled in the Tri-State region that includes Cape Girardeau, Mo.; Paducah, Ky.; and communities in Illinois since December 2017, when he joined Max Media's River Radio properties as Director of Sales and General Sales Manager. Now, you can call him the General Manager.

As the owner of the New Orleans Saints and New Orleans Pelicans, giving back to the Crescent City has become what the NAB Leadership Foundation calls a hallmark of her leadership. This is why the NABLF 2026 Celebration of Service to America Leadership Award is being presented to Gayle Benson.

There's a new general manager at the CBS affiliate in Bryan-College Station, Tex., owned by Gray Media. It's a woman who most recently led sales for a Graham Media Group property in Central Florida.

There's a new News Director coming to Hearst Television's ABC affiliate serving Central Mississippi, and he'll be starting his new role on June 1. It involves a move from a former longtime ABC affiliate that went independent in August 2025. 

MLC Media Senior Advisor Jeffery Liberman will be making his first Hispanic Radio Conference appearance in his new role by sitting down for a conversation with Zach Sang, who built one of the most-followed interview platforms in digital media. They'll offer lessons all in Spanish-language radio can immediately apply.

He has 40 years of experience in public media, and for PBS Wisconsin, his leadership, statewide community focus, programmatic vision, and development acumen advanced its national prominence in education, innovation and fundraising around mission-focused Wisconsin programs. Now, Jon Miskowski is retiring.

The organization that oversees the operations of NPR Member WNYC Radio, Classical WQXR and the Gothamist general interest news and entertainment news website has added three women to executive-level roles, each of whom will report to Christy Tanner.

Its properties include seven distinct television brands serving the Delmarva region and a collection of FM radio stations stretching from Wilmington, Del., and Havre de Grace, Md., to its home market of Salisbury-Ocean City, Md. As of today, these properties are under the leadership of a new President.