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Don
Rojas Black Digital Publisher & Pioneer named General Manager of Pacifica
Radio Station.
Veteran
journalist, activist, and new media innovator Don Rojas has been named
as the new general manager of Pacifica Radio station WBAI 99.5 FM in New
York City, Pacifica officials announced today.
The appointment of Rojas concludes an exhaustive six-month search process
that reviewed some 50 applicants and involved a broad array of WBAI staff,
listeners, community groups, as well as local and national board members.
”We
are delighted to have chosen someone with the depth of media experience
and the international stature of Don Rojas,” said Dan Coughlin, the
executive director of the five-station Pacifica Radio network. “Don
brings to WBAI and Pacifica an expansive vision and a proven commitment
to the cause of peace, democracy and justice for all.”
With
a distinguished career in journalism and communications spanning more
than 30 years, Rojas’ background covers stints as the former editor
of the New York Amsterdam News, director of communications of the NAACP,
and
founder/CEO of the award-winning Internet portal, The Black World Today
(http://www.tbwt.com),
and its Internet radio network, BlackWorldRadio.com.
”I’m honored and excited to have been selected to lead WBAI
into a new era,” said Rojas. “The station’s historical
role as an independent and uncompromising voice for peace and justice
is even more critical today in the context of an imminent war in the Middle
East, rampant corporate crime and corruption, rising poverty, assaults
on our civil liberties and major media's capitulation to the right-wing's
agenda.
In the
early 1980s, Rojas worked in Grenada as press secretary to the late Prime
Minister Maurice Bishop and in the mid 1980s as an executive at the International
Organization of Journalists in Prague, Czechoslovakia. He has reported
from numerous countries in Europe, Asia, Africa, Latin America and the
Caribbean, has edited four books and has lectured on the history of journalism
and on Third World affairs at several universities.
Rojas, 53, succeeds outgoing WBAI General Manager Valerie Van Isler, who
is joining Pacifica's national operations staff. Under her 11-year leadership,
WBAI became the largest and most successful station in Pacifica, posting
the first one million dollar drive in the network’s 53-year history
and winning more than 50 major national programming awards. Van Isler
also led a capital campaign to build WBAI’s first home in more than
25 years.
Following
a recent period of turmoil at WBAI and other Pacifica stations, a new
national board has succeeded in stabilizing the network, improving its
finances, and restoring its progressive perspective. In 2000 and 2001
listeners and rank-and-file staff fought against the network's board of
directors in an effort to prevent the sale of the stations and restore
the network to its historic peace and social justice mission.
”The
entire Pacifica Radio network is back on track and moving forward with
increased momentum,” says Dan Coughlin. “We’re raising
more money thanks to the tremendous support from our listeners and we’re
setting up structures of internal democracy and full transparency. I’m
confident that under Don Rojas' leadership WBAI will grow from strength
to strength.”
For his part, Rojas recognizes the challenges and the opportunities
that lie ahead for WBAI. As a progressive institution in one of the world's
most cosmopolitan cities, the station has the potential to become a microcosm
of New York's rich diversity, both in the quality of its programming and
in the composition of its listeners, staff and volunteers -- a harmonious
multi-cultural radio community that can, indeed, become a model for the
entire country. To realize this potential
will require tolerance, maturity, mutual respect and solidarity in action
from all the members of the WBAI family,” he said.
Founded in 1949, Pacifica Radio is the nation’s first
listener-supported, community-based radio network. Today it is the largest
progressive media outlet in the United States. Along with WBAI in New
York, it includes KPFA 94.1 FM in Berkeley, KPFK 90.7 FM in Los Angeles,
KPFT 90.1 FM in Houston and WPFW 89.3 FM in Washington DC and some 50
affiliates in 27 states. The network features Democracy Now!, a daily
news magazine hosted by Pacifica's award-winning journalist Amy Goodman |
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