After a nationwide search Tina Pamintuan has been hired as the CEO of St. Louis Public Radio. Pamintuan takes the CEO position in St. Louis after three years as the general manager at KALW-FM in San Francisco, where she directed the station’s operations, fundraising, programming and editorial teams and served as the liaison for the station’s FCC license holder, the San Francisco Unified School District.
During her time at KALW-FM, Pamintuan oversaw the creation of a 501c3 nonprofit and led the development and implementation of a five-year strategic business plan. She also helped reinvent the station’s local public affairs and music programming to attract a more inclusive and diverse audience, restructured its membership program and oversaw the station’s first development and fundraising plan.
“My work in journalism and public media has always centered people and their stories. As a leader, I want to create possibility and belonging in our industry so that staff are supported to do their best work and continue growing at every stage of their careers,” Pamintuan said.
“I’d like to see St. Louis Public Radio take bold steps to meaningfully connect with new and existing audiences across both perceived and real differences. I know from experience that this kind of work takes deep listening, self-awareness, and genuine collaboration. There’s no question that I’m going to look to the St. Louis community to be a full partner in this endeavor.”
Before moving into leadership at KALW, Pamintuan founded and directed the audio journalism program at the Craig Newmark Graduate School of Journalism at the City University of New York. There, she taught courses in radio news writing and reporting, news magazine production, podcasting, audio documentary and oral history and also managed and produced campus radio and podcast productions during her almost 12 years there.
In 2011, Pamintuan earned an International Center for Journalists’ fellowship to report on climate change and biofuel use in rural areas in the Philippines. A year later, she produced an audio documentary on Occupy Wall Street with host Alex Chadwick.
In 2014, she was a visiting fellow at the Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard University and the next year organized a seminar on Native American media and community radio for the Radcliffe Institute of Advanced Study.
In 2019, the Philippine American Press Club awarded her its Ocampo-Henry Memorial Award in Radio. She is currently a Sulzberger Fellow at Columbia University and was recently elected to the NPR board of directors.
Pamintuan began her career at NPR after graduating from Georgetown University with a degree in philosophy. She also holds a master’s degree in social sciences from the University of Chicago where she focused her studies on media studies and Asian American history.
