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Philly radio station taps Glover as VP for news and civic engagement

Sarah J. Glover

Sarah J. Glover has been named vice president for news and civic engagement at WHYY-FM 90.9, a public radio station in Philadelphia. She begins July 25.

In her new role, Glover will oversee all digital radio and TV newsgathering.

Currently, she is the managing editor of MPR News in Minnesota. Before that, she was at NBC-owned Television Stations, where she was manager of social media strategy. Additionally, she spent more than a decade at the Philadelphia Inquirer and the Philadelphia Daily News.

At the latter, she led her video team to a Pulitzer Prize win.

She served two terms as president of the National Association of Black Journalists, hers being the first two-term presidency in NABJ’s history. She was a 2021 Nieman Visiting Fellow at Harvard University.

Glover has a B.A. from Syracuse University and a M.A. from Edinboro University of Pennsylvania. She holds an MBA from Temple University Fox School of Business.

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