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KALW Seeks a New General Manager

The application deadline is Wednesday, January 3rd, 2018.

KALW-FM is a grassroots, community-rooted public radio station in the NPR network, serving the greater Bay Area. Anyone with experience and vision for horizontal media organizations should apply. Click here for more information.

KALW is the community broadcast service of the San Francisco Unified School District, a pioneer in public broadcasting since it went on the air in 1941 as the first FM station in the West. The station was an early NPR affiliate and served as the West Coast station of record for the BBC World Service.

Beyond the incredible grassroots opportunity KALW represents, the station has given rise to some of the top podcast and audio programming in the United States, and has a great opportunity to leap up to the next level as cross-platform, public-media incubator.

Jodi Rave Spotted Bear

Jodi Rave Spotted Bear is the founder and director of the Indigenous Media Freedom Alliance, a 501-C-3 nonprofit organization with offices in Bismarck, N.D. and the Fort Berthold Reservation. Jodi spent 15 years reporting for the mainstream press. She's been awarded prestigious Nieman and John S. Knight journalism fellowships at Harvard and Stanford, respectively. She also an MIT Knight Science Journalism Project fellow. Her writing is featured in "The Authentic Voice: The Best Reporting on Race and Ethnicity," published by Columbia University Press. Jodi currently serves as a Society of Professional Journalists at-large board member, an SPJ Foundation board member, and she chairs the SPJ Freedom of Information Committee. Jodi has won top journalism awards from mainstream and Native press organizations. She earned her journalism degree from the University of Colorado at Boulder.