Tina Pamintuan

Tina Lacdao Pamintuan has spent over 20 years in public media as a journalist, educator and leader. She is the President and CEO of KUOW in Seattle, where she leads vision, strategy, and culture for the organization.

Before making the leap to Washington State, Pamintuan made her home in cities along the east and west coasts, as well as the midwest. Most recently, as the CEO of St. Louis Public Radio (STLPR), she partnered with her staff to transform the company's workplace culture. Together, they created a three year strategic plan, and, under her leadership, STLPR won the highest number of journalism awards in its history two years in a row.

In San Francisco, Pamintuan was the general manager of KALW, where she founded the nonprofit KALW Public Media and negotiated a long-anticipated legal agreement with the station's license holder to operate the station independently from the city. She brought the station into labor and FCC compliance, and led the station's first professional rebranding and marketing efforts. She also programmed the station to attract a more diverse and younger listening audience, bringing more BIPOC voices to air both nationally and locally. As part of the station's new music initiative, KALW also saw the opening of its first studio in the east bay under her leadership.

In New York, Pamintuan created and directed the audio journalism program at The Craig Newmark Graduate School of Journalism where she taught radio writing and reporting, news magazine production, audio documentary and oral history. She now enjoys hearing former students on-air reporting from stations across the country, launching their own investigative series and podcasts and producing and hosting for nationally syndicated programs.

Pamintuan was a 2014 Nieman Visiting Fellow at Harvard and a 2015 Scholar-in-Residence at the Tow Knight Center for Entrepreneurial Journalism. In 2019, she was honored to receive the Philippine American Press Club's Ocampo-Henry Memorial Award in Radio, but even more delighted when her mother, who always wanted to become a journalist, accepted the award on her behalf.

She began her career as an intern at National Public Radio and now serves on its board of directors. Pamintuan is a graduate of Georgetown University where she studied philosophy and physics.