Keith Thibault

Keith Thibault is Director of Television Services and Fall River Community Media at Bristol Community College in Fall River, Massachusetts, where his work has supported local programming, educational access, government coverage, regional collaboration, and community media service across southeastern Massachusetts. He received the ACM's Sue Miller Buske Leadership Award in 2022, recognition for a long access career rooted in the connection between higher education, local television, and civic information.

The college-based model of community media that Keith has developed at Fall River reflects one approach to the sustainability question that community media centers across the country face: embedding PEG operations within an educational institution that has its own mission, constituency, and funding base.

His career reflects how community media leadership can grow through sustained service to a specific community and region, building the relationships and institutional knowledge that make a station genuinely useful over time.