Terence Shepherd
News DirectorTerence Shepherd serves as news director for KPBS, managing an award-winning newsroom of reporters, hosts, editors, producers and videographers.
Before joining KPBS, Shepherd worked at WLRN, the public radio news outlet in South Florida serving Broward, Miami-Dade, Palm Beach and Monroe counties, where he had been news director since 2013. The station earned the National Edward R. Murrow Award for Overall Excellence in 2021. Before public media, Shepherd was a business editor at the Miami Herald and held various editing positions at the Boca Raton News.
He is a member of the "Public Radio Network Standards & Practices Handbook” working group, which is developing guidelines concerning ethics, licensee relations and other issues facing local stations. Shepherd is a past chairman of the Radio Television Digital News Association, the association’s former ethics chair, and is currently a trustee of the organization’s Foundation. Terence also is a two-time past president of the South Florida Black Journalists Association.
A native of Louisville, Ky., Terence graduated from St. Andrew’s School in Sewanee, Tennessee, and has degrees from the University of Virginia and Florida Atlantic University. He has been married for 29 years.
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Prospects of a raid in Chicago come just a few weeks after Trump's border czar Tom Homan visited the city and threatened to prosecute the mayor if he did not cooperate. -
President-elect Donald Trump spoke on the possibility of delaying a ban less than 24 hours from when the social media app is expected to shut down. -
NPR transcribed more than 2,000 hours of radio communications from the LA fires. It shows hydrants going dry and first responders fighting the fires despite scarce resources. -
South Korea's impeached president, Yoon Suk Yeol, faces possible imprisonment over his declaration of martial law last month. The formal arrest comes days after he was apprehended. -
Barring a last minute sale by its Chinese parent company, TikTok could soon go dark in the U.S. Now, creators on the Chinese-owned platform pay tribute to it — and talk about what's next. -
A court found a police volunteer guilty of the rape and murder of a 31-year-old trainee doctor, a crime that sparked protests and hospital strikes amid concerns over lack of safety for women.
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