Western Illinois’ TSPR Director Named to National Diversity Cohort

The general manager of the region’s Tri States Public Radio stations has been accepted into a leadership cohort designed to add diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives to all aspects of public media. TSPR General Manager Heather L. Norman was named to the fifth cohort of the Public Media Diversity Leaders Initiative, through The Riley Institute at Furman University in South Carolina. The first of five meetings will be held Feb. 1, and the cohort, of about 30 leaders from across the United States, will meet remotely through early June. Norman heard about the opportunity through an online... Read More