Jantzen Zink
On-Air Fundraising Associate Producer/EditorJantzen Zink produces television and radio pledge drives for the on-air fundraising department at KPBS. Before joining KPBS in 2011, Jantzen was the promotions assistant at KUSI in San Diego. She started her career in broadcasting in 2008 as a weather forecaster and reporter at WSIL and WSIU in Illinois. Jantzen graduated with a degree in radio and television from Southern Illinois University Carbondale.
RECENT STORIES ON KPBS
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The British composer was a generational success story before his death at 37 — yet keeping that legacy in view has always been a challenge, even during his lifetime.
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