President WAMC Northeast Public Radio | Albany, New York We are pleased to announce that the Board of Trustees of WAMC/Northeast Public Radio has named Sarah Gilbert as the organization's new President and Chief Executive Officer, effective August 19, 2024.Most recently, Ms. Gilbert was President and Chief Content Officer at the Chicago Council on Global Affairs where she built a team of diverse young journalists to deliver news and insights on digital platforms designed to inform and engage nextgen audiences where they are.Ms. Gilbert spent the first decade of her career in public media at the BBC in London and Brussels, where she worked on the international desk leading teams in the field throughout Europe and the Middle East. In 2006 she relocated to Washington, D.C., where she oversaw the BBC's 2008 election coverage and served as Executive Producer for Americana, a weekly politics and culture show. After a stint in Los Angeles as Managing Editor at APM's Marketplace, she returned to Washington and joined NPR as, successively, Supervising Senior Editor of Weekend Edition, Executive Producer of Morning Edition, and Vice President of News Programming. Recognizing the need to diversify how news is delivered, Ms. Gilbert pushed NPR to move into the digital age, creating and producing Up First, one of the earliest and still strongest daily news podcasts of its kind. She is passionate about the role and responsibility of public media to inform, educate, and engage its audiences.Read the full press release here.Karen Avery led this search with Mia Carpiniello, supported by Caroline Corry.