U of I College of Media removes Illinois Public Media executive director, promotes from within to fill

Updated on Wed. Nov 12 at 12 p.m. CT

The College of Media at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign is installing new leadership at Illinois Public Media.

Staff at the Urbana-based station learned in an email Tuesday morning that the College of Media is removing current executive director Moss Bresnahan, moving him to an advisory role within the college.

“Illinois Public Media is part of the College of Media and so the dean there is entitled to have ideas on its future,” Bresnahan said in an interview Wednesday.

University of Illinois Maurice “Moss” Bresnahan has been the executive director of Illinois Public Media since 2014.

Bresnahan said he learned that the college was reassigning him two weeks in advance. The rationale was related to his strategic vision.

“The only reason