Essentially, the success of the company falls in your hands. "We are delighted to welcome John, whose deep experience as a media industry executive and practicing journalist make him ideally suited to lead NPR into its next chapter," said Paul Haaga, Chair of the NPR board. Were working with them to create regional newsrooms in Texas and California and the Midwest and in the Gulf. Current: You came to NPR after serving as CEO of the U.S. Agency for Global Media. (Former long time member). NPR stands stronger than it did at the outset of Mohn's five-year term in 2014. So sad to lose an American institution to propaganda. Current: How else might NPR assist stations in the coming year? Here's what to do in a worst case scenario. The network's fight for listeners' time has become more feverish. Age: 62, Born on July 31, 1957, in Minneapolis NPR takes only a few million dollars a year from federal sources for its programs. What makes you so open and vocal about the need for diversity? So we were pleased to see SAG-AFTRA join our efforts. For July, NPRs 60 active shows among them Planet Money, Fresh Air and Wait Wait Dont Tell Me! were downloaded 141 million times and had nearly 21 million listeners in the United States, according to Podtrac. CEO John Lansing cited the erosion. It began to improve a little bit as we moved into August and September, as corporate sponsorships began to recover a little bit.
LANSING, John, Jr. | US House of Representatives: History, Art & Archives We've made some good forward progress around hiring, with requiring that our hiring panels be diverse, requiring that our finalists have diverse representation at a minimum, but of course there's no maximum, in terms of a list of finalists. Current: Why are NPR and its partners looking to sell the Pocket Casts podcast app? John Lansing, CEO, photographed for NPR, 22 January 2020, in Washington DC. We couldnt be more proud of the quality and the depth of the journalism thats coming from the member stations, and it really has strengthened the entire system enormously. You have shows like All Things Considered and Morning Edition, which will continue to be broadcasting tent poles, Mr. Lansing said. Were working with them to do joint investigative reporting. How cool is it to be at NPR? You'll find out about what they do and what they're inspired by on the daily. So that would be mine. John Lansing, NPR's President and CEO, defended Kelly last weekend during an interview on NPR's All Things Considered program, saying that Kelley "is one of the most respected, truthful . So I brought in Michael Smith as our new chief marketing officer almost a year ago. I thought, wow. Lansing says even that proved overly optimistic. We need help now. So we began an intensive set of Zoom meetings that I attended, each one with a member station and a qualified potential donor.
US Media Propaganda. Drawing "Liberals" and "Leftists" into the CIA's NPR headquarters in Washington, D.C. Lansing previously held positions overseeing the Scripps Co.'s local television stations and then its national cable channels, which include the Food Network and HGTV, among others. I dont know if youve been on the highway recently, but theres a lot more traffic on the highway today than there would have been last May and June. In May 2020, four NPR female hosts of color Garcia-Navarro, King, All Things Considered host Ailsa Chang and Weekend All Things Considered host Michel Martin sent a letter to Lansing . There's always going to be things here and there that have to be worked out, because that's just the way a company is, but I've never been in a company before where it was so understood that we're here to serve the American people. Apple is reportedly building a podcast subscription service. You go to college and all the sudden you're like 'wait a minute, I've got to do something when this is over.' And its where our focus needs to be right now. Scripps Company, Held senior management positions at Scripps-owned affiliates, including WEWS TV in Cleveland, Ohio and WXYZ TV in Detroit, Michigan, Early in his career Award-winning Photojournalist and Field Producer, Assignment Manager, Managing Editor, and News Director at several television stations. Courtesy of Allison Shelley for NPR. At the same time, we have to think creatively. hide caption. Now with the magazine shows on weekdays were about 20% behind last year, which is a significant improvement over where we were about eight months ago. And I had a lot of interest in how my former team was being treated, but more importantly, just as an American citizen, how the work of USAGM through VOA [Voice of America] and RFE/RL [Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty] was threatening to undermine the interests of the United States government by politicizing journalism that was meant by law to be free of political interference.
John F. Lansing : NPR Board Memberships & Affiliations. "Jarl would be the first to say that it is the area where he feels that his work was not complete," Sheikholeslami said.
Pompeo Interview Dispute With NPR Sends Conflicting Message on - VOA In an interview on Friday, Mr. Lansing, 62, praised NPR as a home of high-quality journalism and audio production, and said that in addition to supporting traditional radio broadcasting he wanted to help NPR further its expansion into areas like podcasts, where the radio network has already been a leader. Lansing has won plaudits from journalists for his rousing defense of a free press even while serving in the Trump administration, which has been notably hostile to traditional notions of the role of journalism in civic life. Lansing is a veteran executive and journalist who has spent decades leading complex media companies in growing their relevance and reach, while strengthening their business operations. But now we're seeing authoritarian regimes expanding around the globe, with media repression in places like Turkey and Venezuela, Cambodia and Vietnam.". Lansing said he took pride in maintaining conventional broadcasts while appealing to new audiences, reaching about 25% more people each week. The newsroom currently stands at just shy of 490 people, while programming has shot up to 230. Pack then took a number of actions that raised fears about the independence of the agency, which includes Voice of America. And the work goes on.
David Folkenflik on Twitter: "News: NPR to lay off about 10 percent of The network had run deficits in six of the seven previous years; under Mohn, it has achieved a slight surplus for each year during his tenure, even as the annual budget grew by more than 40%. John Lansing testifying before a House Appropriations subcommittee in July. John Lansing, the chief executive officer and director of the U.S. Agency for Global Media, will become NPR's CEO in mid-October. Today, we feature John Lansing, CEO of NPR. The agency has an annual budget of $808 million. Lansing has earned an advanced degree in political agility. And I would do a board-level review for the donor or donors as to where the business was, the value of the work we were doing, the things we were adding in terms of covering the pandemic. Leading the organization through it all is CEO John Lansing, a longtime media executive who has been on the job since October 2019. When will that freeze be lifted? Weve seen a gradual comeback. John Lansing will begin his term as President and CEO of NPR in October, 2019.
NPR announces layoffs, cutting jobs by 10% as ad revenue drops : NPR Experts say the behavior could have constituted insider trading. What advice would you give to young journalists of color when navigating these white spaces, but attempting to make a change? NPR's chief executive announced the network would lay off roughly 10% of its . The last time NPR faced such stark choices, it was 2008. And how's that being measured and accounted for? She really has helped us, and she's brought discipline to a process that in the past might have been people talking past each other a little bit and waiting for things to blow over. John Lansing will begin his term as President and CEO of NPR in October, 2019. Last year brought a host of challenges to NPR: a multimillion-dollar deficit, calls for changes in its workplace culture and a hit to broadcast listening. Or persons of color who are in our organization that are hearing [about] a lot of activity but arent experiencing what they believe they should be experiencing in terms of a workplace where they feel like they can grow and improve their work and improve their careers. Ever since I've started, I've noticed that you've been very vocal about the need for diversity. Mr. Mohn led the push into podcasting and helped stabilize the organization after years of management turnover and budget deficits. Lansing also spent almost 20 years working at Scripps, including eight years as President of Scripps Networks. The union represents 570 people at NPR. Vox Media cut jobs by 7%; Gannett and Spotify by 6%. I'm kind of a politics junkie. Last year, President Trump appointed Michael Pack as USAGMs CEO. NPR has also been the nation's leading producer of podcasts since Podtrac started measuring audiences. Not exactly. Lansing says he does not yet know who within NPR will be affected, but said the job cuts would not fall evenly across the organization. I just started in May. John Lansing, a veteran government broadcast and cable television executive, has been selected by NPR's corporate board to succeed its current chief, Jarl Mohn. NPR faces financial pressures from two fronts. It is our work. NPR CEO Jarl Mohn To Step Down After 5-Year Term Ends In June, Tensions Build In NPR Newsroom Over Handling Of Sexual Harassment Allegations, NPR Announces Newsroom Job Cuts Amid Restructuring.
An open letter to NPR President John Lansing: Racial justice - Current Mr. Lansing rejected that accusation, saying that the agency was independent by law. And be a good listener. I had no idea what was out there. Its a real business with real market dynamics.. NPR draws more than 28 million listeners each week and 40 million unique monthly visitors to its website both represent a rise of several million over those five years. So hes doubling down on lack of diversity, does that mean he wants his audience to reflect the other half of the country, the conservatives in flyover country? This is just dishonest, especially since NPR became what amounted to a voice of the opposition in its coverage of this dysfunctional federal agency. That content executive position has not yet been filled; its creation led to the departure of then-NPR chief news executive Nancy Barnes. Lansing said in an interview with Current Thursday that one of his first observations upon joining NPR was that we needed to double down our efforts in diversity, equity and inclusion. Well, what we're doing right now, I think communication. NPR will cut 10% of its workforce, CEO John Lansing said Wednesday. Vegas PBS General Manager, Tom Axtell, announces his retirement. hide caption. I subscribe to the notion of leadership as a servant leader, that the role of leaders is to support the team to do their best work. And as the year unfolded, we began to develop our three-year strategic plan.
CEO John Lansing discusses NPR's diversity efforts, budget - Current So it's kind of inseparable, that coming in as CEO of NPR, and then six months in having the coronavirus, followed by a major economic downturn in the country and for NPR, and then the reckoning that summer. With a nationwide network of award-winning journalists and 17 international bureaus, NPR and its Member stations are never far from where a story is unfolding. NPR's total workforce has grown by about 50 percent since before that crisis. Were consulting with digital media, were consulting with the division heads, and were doing it as an all-hands project so that we get it right.