Nashville Public Television’s Megan Grisolano is among 35 honorees in Current magazine’s annual cohort of early- and mid-career public media Rising Stars. As NPT’s executive producer and senior director of content, Megan provides editorial oversight for all productions. She is skilled in building an audience on digital platforms, storytelling, data analysis, and strategic leadership. Read more about Megan here.
Current, the trade publication for public media, launched Rising Stars in 2023 to celebrate younger employees who are making a difference in public media — on air and behind the scenes — by producing content, raising funds, engaging audiences and maintaining technical operations.
The Rising Stars work in a variety of roles at public media stations and national organizations and are 36 and younger. Each was nominated by colleagues or supervisors for their exceptional contributions to their workplaces, communities and public media at large.
This spring Current received more than 170 nominations for consideration as Rising Stars. Finalists and winners were chosen by Current staff and five judges who work in and around public media: Aishah Rashied-Hyman of Public Media Women in Leadership; Eric Marsh of WHYY; news and journalism strategist Vinnee Tong; journalist April Simpson, formerly with Center for Public Integrity; and Deema Zein of PBS News Hour, herself a 2023 Rising Star.
Read about the 2024 Rising Stars of Public Media at current.org/risingstars2024.
Current is a nonprofit news organization covering public media in the U.S for professionals in the industry. For over 40 years, leaders and staff at NPR, PBS, CPB, public radio and TV stations, and independent producers have relied on Current for information, inspiration and insights to help them fulfill public media’s mission.
Current, a journalism center of the American University School of Communication, is funded in part by the Wyncote Foundation of Philadelphia.