Richard Heffner, the founding g.m. of New York’s WNET/Thirteen and ... arts and public affairs programming that molded WNET’s identity. “Now you’d say it’s in our DNA, but he was in charge of ...

Richard D. Heffner has been called many things — television host, professor, writer, editor, commentator — but there is one title he recalls with particular relish. As chairman of the Ratings Board ...

In 1994, Richard D. Heffner, the chairman of the Motion Picture Ratings Association of America and the creator of PBS staple The Open Mind, wrote a column for The New York Times excoriating the ...

An “In Memoriam” to Richard D. Heffner, author, teacher and long-time producer/host of Richard Heffner’s Open Mind who died in December 2013, is introduced by grandson Alexander Heffner.

Juan González, the former minister of education of the Young Lords, is the Richard D. Heffner Professor in Communications and Public Policy at Rutgers University and co-host of Democracy Now!