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ERIKA PULLEY-HAYES LEAVING 90.7 WMFE
• ERIKA PULLEY-HAYES LEAVING 90.7 WMFE DURING HER TENURE AS PRESIDENT AND CEO, PULLEY-HAYES INCREASED REACH OF LOCAL NEWS COVERAGE AND FORMED STRATEGIC PARTNERSHIPS TO STRENGTHEN WMFE’S SERVICE TO THE COMMUNITY. Erika Pulley-Hayes announced Tuesday that she will be leaving Community Communications Inc., which operates 90.7 WMFE and 89.5 WMFV, after serving since the beginning of 2020. “Central Florida has been an incredible experience,” Pulley-Hayes said. “I learned so much and met some amazing people who helped prepare me for this undeniable opportunity. I am returning home, but Central Florida will always hold special significance for me.” Pulley-Hayes will continue in her position in Orlando for the next several weeks and work alongside the staff to ensure a smooth transition, before …
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COMMUNITY COMMUNICATIONS INTRODUCES NEW MANAGING EDITOR
• Community Communications, Inc. taps public media rising star, LaToya Dennis to fill the role of news director and managing editor for the award-winning 90.7 WMFE newsroom in metro Orlando and 89.5 WMFV in The Villages, Leesburg and the Golden Triangle.
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WMFE WINS TOP HONORS FROM THE FLORIDA ASSOCIATION OF BROADCAST JOURNALISTS
• WMFE’s environmental reporter Amy Green spent months investigating the massive, complex plan to save the Everglades. In her four-part podcast, Green waded into the science and the politics behind one of the most ambitious- and costly- environmental restoration projects ever undertaken.
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WMFE to air ‘Black Churches in Orlando’ in connection with PBS’ ‘The Black Church’
• WMFE 90.7 and 89.5 is airing Black Churches of Orlando in connection with The Black Church: This Is Our Story, This Is Our Song, the PBS documentary series by Dr. Henry Louis Gates. The program airs on February 26 at 3 pm and February 28 at 1 pm and is funded by a grant from the Corporation of Public Broadcasting.
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DRAINED: New podcast looks at massive plan to save the Everglades, 20 years & $17 billion later
• In DRAINED, a new four-part podcast out Dec. 8 from WMFE and the Florida Center for Investigative Reporting, Amy Green wades into the controversy around one of the most ambitious environmental restoration efforts ever undertaken.
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WMFE President Elected to NPR Board of Directors
• Erika Pulley-Hayes, president and CEO of WMFE/WMFV in Orlando, has been elected to the NPR Board of Directors.
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This National Radio Day, ‘local radio more important than ever,’ WMFE host says
• “In the midst of a once-in-a-century pandemic, economic turbulence, civil unrest, a historic election, and so much more, local radio is more important than ever,” WMFE’s Nicole Darden Creston says in Thursday’s Orlando Sentinel.
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