Sarah Ashworth has been named Executive General Manager of PBS Wisconsin and Wisconsin Public Radio.
The appointment was announced Oct. 23 by Jordan L. Siegler, Executive Director of the University of Wisconsin-Madison Division of Public Media, and Marta Bechtol, Executive Director of the Educational Communications Board, following a nationwide search for this new leadership position directing the two public media services that serve statewide audiences in Wisconsin. Ashworth will officially begin in this role Nov. 29.
Ashworth has served as WPR’s Director of Radio for more than three years. Ashworth’s 25 years of public media experience also includes work as Vermont Public’s head of content as well as newsroom roles at Minnesota Public Radio, New Hampshire Public Radio, WAMU and KBIA in Missouri. Ashworth also served as an Assistant Professor of Journalism at the University of Missouri-Columbia. Under her leadership, Vermont Public and NHPR won national Edward R. Murrow awards for overall excellence…