Meet the Team

Jill Linder

Director of Video Programming & Operations

Jill Linder serves as the internal and external point person for TV programming working together with independent producers, national program distributors, vendors and public television colleagues to enact the KPBS TV programming schedule and ensure that the programs airing on KPBS meet the station's standards and mission to the community. In addition, she works collaboratively to develop and execute promotion strategies for key TV programs across all media platforms to reach the widest audience possible. Jill has been with KPBS since 2003. Prior to joining the station, Jill worked at local commercial TV stations including KUSI and KSWB (Now Fox5 San Diego). She earned her bachelor’s in interdisciplinary studies from National University.

RECENT STORIES ON KPBS

Atomic People: Trailer

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Corey Antonio Rose

Brittany dives into the economy behind Christian contemporary music
Arts & Culture

How San Diego's Little Fish Studio prepares young artists for Comic-Con

Beth Accomando

Through the Comic-Con Artist Intensive program, students ages 14 to 22 get a three-day crash course in comic-making — and a chance to pitch to professionals.
Border & Immigration

A man is halted climbing the US-Mexico border wall. Under new Trump rules, US troops sound the alarm

Morgan Lee

Inside an armored vehicle, an Army scout uses a joystick to direct a long-range optical scope toward a man perched atop the U.S.-Mexico border wall cutting across the hills of this Arizona frontier community.
International

Arizona woman to serve 8 years for identity theft scheme benefiting North Korea

Alana Wise

Christina Chapman was sentenced to prison this week for her role in a scheme that the DOJ said used stolen American identities in order to help illegally employ North Koreans in U.S. companies.
National

Lawmakers seek to ban federal agents from wearing masks

Martin Kaste

ICE says its employees have good reasons to hide their faces from protesters who want to dox them online, but Democrats say masked federal agents evokes "secret police," and the practice should be banned.