hide caption. National Public Radio will reduce its workforce by 10 percent as it grapples with what CEO John Lansing says is a "sharp . For two years, he served as the president and CEO of a cable trade group called the Cable and Telecommunications Association for Marketing. How does the economy react to all of that? He held off a push by House Republicans to spin off Voice of America into a nongovernmental broadcaster. Selected by the NPR board of directors, Lansing will start in October, succeeding outgoing head Jarl Mohn, It has become enshrined in our three-year strategic plan as the centerpiece of all of our work. Applicants to this years fellowship see its cancellation as a setback for journalists of color who want to work in public radio. Scripps Networks I can't speak for other people, CEOs. Current: With broadcast listening declining during the pandemic, what is NPR doing to address and adjust to those trends? And theyre all expected to articulate a DEI goal thats measurable, actionable, and that they can be held accountable for and will be. Just be tuned into our folks. Four years ago, Lansing was named by President Obama to be the first chief executive of the broadcasting outfit that was renamed the U.S. Agency for Global Media. Lansing describes himself as a citizen watching from the outside A private citizen? Were finishing up in the next two to three weeks the specific lists of actions and activities under these pillars. Why? He served for four years as the SVP, Television for the E.W. And our number one goal is to improve our audience diversity. So Im pleased to see that that short era is over. But now were seeing authoritarian regimes expanding around the globe, with media repression in places like Turkey and Venezuela, Cambodia and Vietnam.. NPR's chief executive announced the network would lay off roughly 10% of its current workforce - at least 100 people - and eliminate most vacant positions. 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CEO John Lansing cited the erosion. NPR Start Date: Mid October, 2020 And what a breath of fresh air Whitney brings into the organization. And weve seen some significant success with that. Mohn fired head of news Michael Oreskes on Halloween 2017. Will there be another stimulus? NPR has also been the nations leading producer of podcasts, since Podtrac started measuring the audiences. John Lansing, CEO, photographed for NPR, 22 January 2020, in Washington DC. I have read and agree to the terms & conditions, Senior Vice President for Television in the broadcasting division of the E.W. NPR Facebook Post with Comments. Mr. Mohn led the push into podcasting and helped stabilize the organization after years of management turnover and budget deficits. Lansing: They were for general. U.S. Agency for Global Media I had been gone for the better part of a year or so. promoting Keith Woods to chief diversity officer, regional newsrooms in Texas and California and the Midwest and in the Gulf, I brought in Michael Smith as our new chief marketing officer, looking to sell the Pocket Casts podcast app, Suspension of NPRs Kroc fellowships disrupts talent development, career plans of student journalists. September 6, 2019. It was about a $3 million cost to NPR for the fiscal year. After Lansing hopped over to NPR from USAGM in 2019, NPR had to be prompted by outside critics to include disclaimers on its USAGM/VOA stories to note Lansings past USAGM role. 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. All of that is to say that coming out of the reckoning of Memorial Day 2020 was for us and for me, in particular, a call to action internally at NPR to hear and reckon with our own issues internally. Current: Is there a timeline for that process? I think there's an awareness, like in the way you asked the question about 'our North Star.' Our goal of developing our audience as a younger and more diverse audience requires that we invest in marketing, we invest in content, and we partner with platforms where those audiences can be found rather than expecting younger and more diverse audiences to come to our platforms, necessarily. "The challenges he will face at NPR are not dissimilar to challenges across the media landscape as a whole," said Sheikholeslami, who will soon take up the CEO job at New York Public Radio. Mohn led NPR through five consecutive years of audience growth and budget surplus. Talk about a force of nature. So were now into the new fiscal year. He was responsible for strategic and operational oversight and P&L of the $2.5 billion division of Scripps Networks Interactive, including the company's portfolio of six cable networks Food Network, HGTV, Travel Channel, DIY, Cooking Channel and Great American Country and the $100 million Scripps Networks Digital division. I want to hear the ideas that are bubbling underneath right now and what people are excited about what theyre looking forward to developing, Lansing said Thursday. Its pretty clear to me that the ratings decline in radio is driven by commuting patterns. And were happy to see SAG-AFTRA agree with us and to join up. And I want to look for areas that I can provide leadership to bring resources together as needed strategically to find the right priorities that make the most sense for growing NPR this year and then into the future.. NPR stands stronger than it did at the outset of Mohns five-year term in 2014. John F. Lansing (he/him) oversees one of the country's most iconic news organizations, whose rigorous reporting and unsurpassed storytelling connects with millions of Americans every day on the air, online, and in person. And so I had a very visceral reaction to that happening in my hometown, and that it was so egregious the murder of an innocent person captured on video, on a phone. So I think thats being offset by some listening through smart speakers and even online, and thats helping to offset some of the reduction in listening within vehicles. A member of the Republican Party, Gibbs was a software engineer and missionary before entering politics. Trump has notably praised authoritarian figures, including the leaders of North Korea, the Philippines, Russia and Turkey, and has waged his own fight against journalists. He made his mark in his current job with stirring defenses of journalism, free from government interference. Lansing also spent almost 20 years working at Scripps, including eight years as President of Scripps Networks. ", "I am thrilled to work with NPR's exceptional management team, staff and journalists," said Lansing. And I was very proud of the progress we were making. He will now lead the nations top audio producer and broadcaster. Were certainly not over, were not at a finish line. And so that was the way I looked at the future for me. Its something that we certainly support. NPR joins a number of top media companies, including The Washington Post as well as CNN, that have been slashing their workforces amid economic woes and financial uncertainty. But mostly its targeted at marketing investments on social media platforms that are specifically reaching out to younger and more diverse audiences to see if we can drive sampling. Lansing: Lets go back in time. NPRs president of operations, Loren Mayor, was the leading internal candidate for the chief executive position. Colorado Postcards are snapshots of our colorful state in sound. Apple is reportedly building a podcast subscription service. I'm from Minneapolis, and my parents are buried about six blocks from where George Floyd was killed. Job cuts throughout. The streaming platform Spotify paid nearly a quarter-billion dollars to buy the podcast producer Gimlet, founded by former staffers of NPR and other public radio outlets. Last summer, we definitely had a racial reckoning. Bellarmine alumnus and former trustee John Lansing, a veteran cable television and government broadcast executive, is the new CEO of NPR. NPR's chief news executive, Nancy Barnes, said Friday she would be leaving the network, prompted by NPR CEO John Lansing's decision to create a new executive role above her. It's interesting. Did you plan for this or did it kind of just happen? He made his mark in his current job with stirring defenses of journalism, free from government interference. If you had to create a podcast, what would it be about? In these comments, John Lansing slides by with a public swipe at the Trump Notify me of follow-up comments by email. I established DEI as our top priority on Jan. 5 of 2020. Lansing, who is 62, is currently . Sometimes you have to hear other people's truth and accept it for what it is, not translate it into your truth, therefore it's no longer what it is. I, and the management team, all of us, we determined that was going to be a priority for the year 2021. But an example of that one that weve already created is the Consider This podcast, which is just a terrific example of taking the national-local partnership into the on-demand future. What would you go back and tell your younger self? Current: NPR has helped stations during the pandemic by delaying planned changes to the dues they pay. "And I want to look for areas that I can provide leadership to bring resources together as needed strategically to find the right priorities that make the most sense for growing NPR this year and then into the future.". Lansing: We hope to have that completed within about eight to 10 weeks. He will be the 11th permanent president or chief executive in the radio networks nearly 50-year history. "When I think of NPR and I think of the member stations collectively, I think really of journalism as a public service, not tied to a profit motive," Lansing told NPR News. document.getElementById( "ak_js_1" ).setAttribute( "value", ( new Date() ).getTime() ); Public Media Now was created to be a centralized source of information and resources to help professional within Public Media be more successful. Learn more at npr.org/about or by following NPR Extra on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. 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. Ever since you started, you've been very vocal about it. And as the year unfolded, we began to develop our three-year strategic plan. Lansing says the agency referred Haroon Ullah's expenditures to auditors and investigators after travel assistants flagged them; according to the Justice Department statement, Ullah admitted submitting fraudulent receipts for hotel room reimbursements and fake medical claims to get government payments of upgrades in airline seat assignments, among other offenses. Lansing: I dont know how long that may or may not take, but our emphasis right now is on our own internal digital strategy, digital production, digital storytelling. Disclosure: This story was reported by NPR media correspondent David Folkenflik under guidance from NPR chief business editor Pallavi Gogoi. Podcasting in particular allows NPR to reach audiences that are not necessarily tied to a radio., Paul Haaga, the chairman of NPRs board, said in a statement that Mr. Lansing was a listener and a collaborative leader with a passion for our public service journalistic mission who will help us continue to expand the audience for our storytelling.. NPR was seen to align itself with federal workers at VOA who essentially conducted an internal uprising on government time, while NPR made quite clear in its coverage where it stood. 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 . The various challenges everybody's having from working at home, for example, you realize that everybody's situation is different when you're working. Dear NPR President John Lansing, I want to express my heartfelt appreciation for the powerful letter you wrote to NPR staff and the public about the horrific extrajudicial killing of George Floyd by Minneapolis police. Lansing: I guess my head turns first to the journalism of our member stations. We had begun a lot of work under [Chief Diversity Officer] Keith Woods' leadership to really move us forward. Leading the organization through it all is CEO John Lansing, a longtime media executive who has been on the job since October 2019. That said, Mohn set higher annual expectations for the network in fund-raising and agreed to be co-chairman of its 50th anniversary capital campaign. NPR Names Veteran Media Executive John Lansing As Its New CEO, News That Matters, Delivered To Your Inbox. He has previously announced he would be staying on as president emeritus to help the network raise major gifts, and along with his wife, Pamela Mohn, he personally committed $10 million to the network. John F Lansing, National Public Radio Inc: Profile and Biography - Bloomberg Markets Live Now Bloomberg TV+ Bloomberg Daybreak Middle East Bloomberg Daybreak Middle East. NPR has a new CEO. 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. While member stations on average receive about 10 percent of their funding from the federal government, fees from the stations make up a significant part of the NPR budget. Current: What are some of the highlights of that strategic plan? Their editorial independence is enshrined in federal law, though it sometimes came under attack. The network's fight for listeners' time has become more feverish. Mohn had promised to attract major contributions to NPR before the end of his tenure; to date he has not landed the major eight- and nine-figure donations his stated aspirations suggested. I'm sure that's true even today. I think we're moving forward. 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. Our newsletters bring you a closer look at the stories that affect you and the music that inspires you. NPR maintains 17 national bureaus and 17 bureaus abroad. If it's not being solved from the top down, it shouldn't be a burden for people just trying to build their career. 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. I remember we had several all-staff discussions about a variety of issues that branched off of that, including the Code of Conduct, for example, as it relates to NPR employees at public demonstrations. At the U.S. Agency for Global Media known until last year as the Broadcasting Board of Governors he presided over 53 percent growth in the weekly audience for the agencys networks over the last three years, to 345 million. For two years, he served as the president and CEO of a cable trade group called the Cable and Telecommunications Association for Marketing. NPR faces financial pressures from two fronts. I hear that all the time. He has previously announced he would be staying on as president emeritus to help the network raise major gifts, and along with his wife, Pamela Mohn, he personally committed $10 million to the network. Faces Of NPR showcases the people behind NPR--from the voices you hear every day on the radio to the ones who work outside of the recording studio. Lansings tenure at the agency has not been without controversy. So mentally, how do you manage that? While they do not broadcast within the U.S., the Voice of America and the other media outfits Lansing has overseen typically adhere to traditional concepts of factual, non-ideological journalism, with the frequent exception of Radio Marti historically an anti-Castro and anti-Cuban communist outlet. And so in late 2019 we began working on a set of priorities for the calendar year 2020 that included promoting Keith Woods to chief diversity officer; putting more energy behind our effort to have 100% sourcing and notating the diversity of our sources; and hiring, leadership, unconscious bias training, et cetera. Were still looking at a deficit, but were hopeful that by the time we get into March, well have a pretty clear-eyed view of how the year is going to end up. He is passionate about NPR's public service mission and the role of a free and independent media in a strong democracy. 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