CPB Names Ombudsman

J-Lab founder Jan Schaffer, a Pulitzer Prize winner with the Philadelphia Inquirer, has been named to a three-year term as ombudsman for the Corporation for Public Broadcasting.

She will be responsible for "independently reviewing and reporting on issues concerning public media programming."

She succeeds Washington Post senior Editor Milton Coleman, whose term has expired.

CPB oversees the government funding for noncommercial radio, TV and digital media.

John Eggerton

Contributing editor John Eggerton has been an editor and/or writer on media regulation, legislation and policy for over four decades, including covering the FCC, FTC, Congress, the major media trade associations, and the federal courts. In addition to Multichannel News and Broadcasting + Cable, his work has appeared in Radio World, TV Technology, TV Fax, This Week in Consumer Electronics, Variety and the Encyclopedia Britannica.