News Director, KPBS

Terence Shepherd

Terence Shepherd joined KPBS Public Media in 2022 as news director, leading the award-winning and authentically multiplatform newsroom of anchors, editors, hosts, producers, reporters, and videographers. We offer our audiences multiple daily newscasts on radio, a daily evening TV newscast, robust web presence and constantly evolving social media, on-demand and newsletter offerings.

Before joining KPBS, Shepherd worked at WLRN, the public media news outlet in South Florida serving Broward, Miami-Dade, Palm Beach and Monroe counties, where he had been news director since 2013. The station earned the National Edward R. Murrow Award for Overall Excellence in 2021. Before public media, Shepherd was a business editor at the Miami Herald and held various editing and clerk positions at the Boca Raton News.

He was a member of the "Public Radio Network Standards & Practices Handbook” working group, which was tasked with developing guidelines concerning ethics, licensee relations and other issues facing local stations. Shepherd is a past chairman of the Radio Television Digital News Association and also is a two-time past president of the South Florida Black Journalists Association.

He was a fellow in the 2016 Next Generation Leadership professional development cohort.

A native of Louisville, Ky., Terence graduated from St. Andrew’s School in Sewanee, Tennessee, has a B.A. in economics from the University of Virginia and an M.B.A. at Florida Atlantic University. He has been married for 30 years.