NFCB President, CEO Retiring

Carol Pierson, president and CEO of the National Federation of Community Broadcasters writes:

I am retiring as president and CEO of NFCB in January 2010. I will be 65 at that time and want to have more time to travel and spend time with my far-flung family.

These last 13 years at NFCB have been extremely rewarding for me. The membership has grown from under 100 to nearly 150 participant members – the budget from around $250,000 to about $1.5 million. I’m most proud of bringing a sense of unity to Community Radio and expanding our reach through collaborations with many organizations in public broadcasting and the media democracy movement.

Before joining NFCB Pierson served as program director and director of radio productions at KQED/San Francisco and assistant station manager and director of operations and national programming director at WGBH/Boston. She started in radio at WYSO/Yellow Springs, OH.

Ginny Berson is heading the transition committee, which hopes to have Pierson's replacement hired in November and taking over in January.