{"id":99962,"date":"2023-08-04T16:20:04","date_gmt":"2023-08-04T20:20:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/capitol-beat.org\/?p=10512"},"modified":"2023-10-10T16:40:20","modified_gmt":"2023-10-10T20:40:20","slug":"meet-the-new-ceo-of-georgia-public-broadcasting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/?p=99962","title":{"rendered":"Meet the New CEO of Georgia Public Broadcasting"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>A veteran administrator at Georgia Public Broadcasting (GPB) is stepping up to become the state network\u2019s CEO, Gov. Brian Kemp announced Friday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Bert Huffman began working at GPB in 2014 as its first vice president for development and marketing. He later became senior vice president of external affairs before being named president in 2021.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cI want to congratulate Bert as he steps into this role and continues his service at GPB,\u201d Kemp said. \u201cI know he will help ensure the agency remains a valued part of the lives of Georgians through informative content.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cHis record of dedicated service helped to set him apart throughout the process of finding the agency\u2019s next leader,\u201d added Brian Dill, chairman of the Georgia Public Telecommunications Commission, which oversees GPB. \u201cWe know he will help guide GPB in fulfilling its missions across its television, radio, and educational services throughout the state.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>GPB is currently crunching its financial numbers to make ends meet. This year\u2019s state budget cut the agency\u2019s funding by more than 8%.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Before joining GPB, Huffman held top management roles at The <a class=\"wpil_keyword_link\" href=\"\/city\/Atlanta\"   title=\"Atlanta\" data-wpil-keyword-link=\"linked\">Atlanta<\/a> Opera and Emory University. He earned a bachelor\u2019s degree from Tennessee Wesleyan University and a master\u2019s degree from Kennesaw State University.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Huffman succeeds Teya Ryan, who retired from GPB last spring.<\/p>\n\n\n\n[mailerlite_form form_id=9]\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bert Huffman ATLANTA \u2013 A veteran administrator at Georgia Public Broadcasting (GPB) is stepping up to become the state network\u2019s CEO, Gov. Brian Kemp announced Friday. Bert Huffman began working at GPB in 2014 as its first vice president for development and marketing. He later became senior vice president of external affairs before being named [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":100111,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"newspack_featured_image_position":"","newspack_post_subtitle":"","newspack_article_summary_title":"Overview:","newspack_article_summary":"","newspack_hide_updated_date":false,"newspack_show_updated_date":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[94],"tags":[13454,12168],"class_list":["post-99962","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-georgia-people","tag-peach","tag-state","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99962","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=99962"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99962\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100111"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=99962"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=99962"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=99962"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}