National Public Radio has tapped Cindy Kennard, a former USC assistant professor and correspondent with CBS and public station KCET-TV, to oversee programming at its West Coast headquarters in Culver City, starting Oct. 1.
Kennard most recently was executive director of Reliable Resources, a project at the University of Southern California's Annenberg School for Communication to improve political coverage on radio and television. Before that, from 1992 to 1996, she was a CBS News correspondent based in Los Angeles, London and Moscow, and won a 1990-91 DuPont-Columbia University Award for coverage of the Persian Gulf War. She also covered the 2002 California governor's race for KCET.
