CBC taps PR lady as head of English language services

The CBC has tapped an executive from outside the media world to steer its English-language services through a tumultuous broadcasting environment, the Globe and Mail reports.
Heather Conway, a former head of the public relations firm Edelman Canada, who two years ago was appointed to the newly created position of chief business officer at the Art Gallery of Ontario, replaces Kirstine Stewart, who left CBC in the spring to become the first head of Twitter Canada.
The choice of Ms. Conway as the public broadcaster’s chief English-language programmer is an unlikely one. She spent six years at the TV production and broadcasting company Alliance Atlantis in marketing and communications, but did not directly oversee any programming.
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