Daniel Holloway Executive Editor, TVPBS’ 50th year is also its 14th with Paula Kerger at its helm. She is now the longest-serving top executive in PBS’ history — and has guided it through a period of accelerated change.“I don’t think I have words to express how much I feel that Paula’s been the perfect leader for the perfect time for PBS,” says the documentarian Ken Burns. “I have in my long tenure there dating back to the early ’80s been through many, many presidents, and she is far and away the best chief executive that we’ve ever had.”Kerger entered public broadcasting through the nonprofit sector, joining New York’s WNET in 1993 as head of development — not a programming role, but a fundraising one.
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