A later report commissioned by the NPR board found that questions had been raised about Oreskes' behavior even before his hiring and that concerns were raised throughout his tenure; the repeated and formal warnings by top executives (including Mohn) to Oreskes to stop the unwanted attention he paid to female colleagues proved ineffective. Faces of NPR: John Lansing : NPR Extra : NPR - NPR.org 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. We collected a lot of data and we have a lot of good follow-up opportunities, and Ill continue to offer myself up as a direct resource in that pilot project. He is a member of the Quinnipiac University School of Communications Advisory Board and the National Board of Advisors of George Washington University's School of Media & Public Affairs. 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. Mr. Mohn was pressed about his leadership in a tense NPR interview and later apologized to employees for not taking action sooner. 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. And be a good listener. This is simply disingenuous. In a large part, the digital teams and the divisions will work together to reach a final model. John Ten Eyck Lansing Jr. (January 30, 1754 - vanished December 12, 1829), a Founding Father of the United States, was an attorney, jurist, and politician. 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. It all goes back to our mission: serving the American public, recognizing the American public is a diverse mosaic that makes America great and strong, and making sure that we're building systems and content that resonates with all Americans. A number of executives will report directly to Lansing, including Nancy Barnes, senior vice president for news and editorial director, who joined NPR last November and oversees the network's newsroom. We established management commitments to the women of color so that we address specifically their concerns. And The New York Times has won praise and new fans through its weekday podcast The Daily, with in-depth interviews of reporters and newsmakers. And it really opened the funnel. 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. Weve seen a gradual comeback. NPR stands stronger than it did at the outset of Mohn's five-year term in 2014. Mohn fired head of news Michael Oreskes on Halloween 2017. Why did you undertake this? Your email address will not be published. The other is the fight for donors. NPR's John Lansing Discusses the Importance of Integrity in Journalism By Nicole Jones - October 30, 2020 0 463 NPR National President and CEO John Lansing joined the Belmont community for a conversation about integrity in journalism, highlighting its importance especially during an election year. 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. Yet Mr. Mohns tenure was also marked by a sexual harassment scandal involving a senior news executive whom he had hired and a labor clash with hundreds of union workers. Mohn will continue on as President Emeritus & Co-Chair of the 50th Anniversary Campaign. John Lansing, CEO, photographed for NPR, 22 January 2020, in Washington DC. Government support for the public radio system isn't in any immediate jeopardy. Its a real business with real market dynamics.. Mr. Lansing, who began his career as a teenage cameraman at a television station in Kentucky, spent two decades at Scripps Networks. NPR Names Juana Summers as Co-Host of 'All Things Considered' ", "It's always difficult in these situations, and I don't want to minimize the impact that it will have on our colleagues and in some cases, you know, our ability to do what we do," Lee says. Again, I think it's about getting it intertwined into everything we do. 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. So I think that it has caused me to be more tuned in to hearing and understanding our employees. As President, he held strategic and operational oversight of Scripps Networks Digital division and Scripps Networks Interactive, which includes six cable networks: Food Network, HGTV, Travel Channel, DIY, Cooking Channel and Great American Country. Current: What are some of the highlights of that strategic plan? Being a changemaker is awesome, but can have its own challenges as you're just trying to improve your career. He defined NPR's mission as "serving the public with information and an excellence and quality about it that makes it 'must see' on a variety of platforms.". We are different from other federal agencies, said Grant K. Turner, the agencys chief financial officer. 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. And its where our focus needs to be right now. And Im holding myself accountable with my board and Ive been and am holding my direct reports accountable to me. Its not something weve baked and were just going to hand it down. NPR takes only a few million dollars a year from federal sources for its programs. Its pretty clear to me that the ratings decline in radio is driven by commuting patterns. NPR Names John Lansing President And CEO : NPR - NPR.org Mohn placed an emphasis on fostering a more collaborative dynamic with the public radio stations that NPR serves and was given credit for making progress on that score. Others have waded into the podcast fray with a vengeance. Current: Is there a timeline for that process? Every time I hear it, I think that's a success by itself because we all have that as our guiding light. I think there are interesting trends to follow and try to understand. At a young age, my biggest goal at the time was to someday be a news director for a local TV station. "When we say we are eliminating filled positions, we are talking about our colleagues - people whose skills, spirit and talents help make NPR what it is today," Lansing wrote in a memo to staff today. advanced degree - political agility. Were working with them to do joint investigative reporting. Lansing: Its on social media platforms or YouTube or through media partnerships. I think that's where we all wind up. National Public Radio will reduce its workforce by 10 percent as it grapples with what CEO John Lansing says is a "sharp . So Im pleased to see that that short era is over. At the center of a graphic is our commitment to DEI, and all of our work in that circle is surrounded by four pillars. National Public Radio (NPR) CEO John Lansing announced in a Wednesday memo that the network will lay off 10 percent of its staff and freeze vacant positions. Lansing: When I came in in 2019, my earliest observation was that our biggest issue was the lack of diversity in our audience, and I felt that we needed to double down our efforts in DEI throughout our organization in order to fulfill the promise to reflect the entire American public in terms of what America looks like. It did not drive a lot of immediate donations, but there were some. "What we've shown with podcasting is that we can take some of our core journalistic assets and we can create new formats and new programs around them and actually reach new audiences. Mike Morgan/Mike Morgan ", He continued: "Citizens in countries from Russia to China, from Iran to North Korea, have been victimized for decades. I'm sure that's true even today. NPR Names Veteran Media Executive John Lansing As Its New CEO You'll find out about what they do and what they're inspired by on the daily. John F. Lansing : NPR The only route to a successful engagement on this issue is to deal with it, to talk about it, and to take action. "North Star"] for NPR on my arrival as supporting the diversity, equity, and inclusion of our staff so that we could become more relevant to our audiences and grow the diversity of our audiences. Media Exec John Lansing to Become New CEO of NPR - Variety Learn more at npr.org/about or by following NPR Extra on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. We'd like to revisit a story that first broke yesterday and . CEO John Lansing discusses NPRs diversity efforts, budget deficit and growing podcast competition. The network's fight for listeners' time has become more feverish. I'm from Minneapolis, and my parents are buried about six blocks from where George Floyd was killed. Mayor is said to be staying on at the network as a top executive and deputy to Lansing, retaining the enhanced portfolio she took on after Mohn's health crises. Leading the organization through it all is CEO John Lansing, a longtime media executive who has been on the job since October 2019. NPR faces financial pressures from two fronts. But after the pandemic hit in mid-March, we got together with our cohort and said, Why wait 18 months? And my top goal is to support, in particular, the women of color at NPR so that they feel like they have more upward mobility. NPR has also been the nation's leading producer of podcasts since Podtrac started measuring audiences. John Lansing will begin his term as President and CEO of NPR in October, 2019. Lansing: When we look at our strategic plan and our commitment to growing our audience of the future, its clear to us that every corner of NPR has a digital on-demand initiative thats critical to our success and that it makes more sense to have the digital assets closer to the work thats influencing our audiences and growing our audiences. Lansing: I guess I would comment just as a citizen watching from outside. NPR Facebook Post with Comments. Well, what we're doing right now, I think communication. 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. Since then,. Last year, however, the U.S. Agency for Global Media came under fire when it emerged that it had bought Facebook ads targeting American citizens, in violation of laws meant to protect Americans from domestic propaganda. Reliable Sources: NPR names new chief executive | CNN Business This is essentially the DEI work writ large, but also our culture of respect, safety, upward mobility, training and making NPR a world-class organization for which to work. So mentally, how do you manage that? 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Lansing: Back in May and June, it was an alarming decline in radio ratings. September 5, 2019; Washington, D.C. The NPR Board of Directors announced today that it selected John Lansing to become its next President and Chief Executive Officer. "We're not seeing signs of a recovery in the advertising market," Lansing says in an interview. In 2017, Michael Oreskes, NPRs senior vice president for news, left after two women accused him of unwanted physical advances in the 1990s, when he was the Washington bureau chief of The New York Times. What would you go back and tell your younger self? In these comments, John Lansing slides by with a public swipe at the Trump And its tied to the same variables you would know yourselves, which is, how fast can the vaccines be deployed? Family Status: Married with 4 Children (Jean Rausch Lansing) Lansing: That was conducted back in September. Harvard Kennedy School. The layoffs are in keeping with an increasingly grim landscape for media companies over recent months. NPR maintains 17 national bureaus and 17 bureaus abroad. This time, Lansing says he is not confident the money will return anytime soon, so the network and its board have to plan more strategically. John Lansing, CEO, photographed for NPR, 22 January 2020, in Washington DC. 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. NPR will cut 10% of its workforce, CEO John Lansing said Wednesday. I, and the management team, all of us, we determined that was going to be a priority for the year 2021. And were pleased to work with them. 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. After becoming part of Warner Bros. Current: NPRs budget also took a hit because of the pandemic. Courtesy of Allison Shelley for NPR. In an interview, Lansing said he wants to build on NPR's successes in broadcast news and entertainment to become even more dominant in podcasting and more prevalent in streaming. 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. In a memo to. Coming into public media, which I love, I noticed something that would be unusual in commercial media, in that there really wasnt a great investment in marketing podcasting to outside audiences off of our platforms. Lansing 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. You can't escape that. "The result, I believe, is a war on truth. Last year, the network booked $134 million in such corporate underwriting, a record built on strong growth in podcasting revenue in recent years. NPR hosts' departures fuel questions over race. The full story is We can share resources and story ideas, and we can help organize and support those efforts. The Washington Post, owned by Amazon founder Jeff Bezos, eliminated its Sunday magazine and a handful of other jobs. David Folkenflik on Twitter: "News: NPR to lay off about 10 percent of The work of those pillars will be done through the lens of improving our efforts on DEI. Lansing, who is 62, is. I had no idea what was out there. 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. In recent remarks online, Johnson, who is Black, focused on a more competitive landscape for NPR journalists, including people of color. Leading the organization through it all is CEO John Lansing, a longtime media executive who has been on the job since October 2019. "Governments around the world are increasingly cracking down on the free flow of information; silencing dialogue and dissent; and distorting reality," Lansing said in a speech he delivered in May to the Media for Democracy Forum. U.S. Agency for Global Media Lansing clearly had an ongoing interest in the USAGM story and the notion that that at some point along the line he did not provide his take, at minimum, to NPR reporting staff, on the story beggars belief. 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, nonideological journalism, with the frequent exception of Radio Mart historically an anti-Castro and anti-Cuban communist outlet. "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. So those are the four pillars that rotate around the centerpiece, we call it the North Star, of our commitment to DEI. I'd say if there's anything that I focused on, and still am focused on during the pandemic, it is to make sure that whatever the situation is, we are supporting staff to do their best work, supporting them when they're having other challenges and making sure that we're attentive and tuned in to employees that need help, that need a break, that need to be heard, whatever that may be. David Westin speaks with top names in finance about the week's biggest issues on Wall Street. Current: What challenges have you faced in implementing your DEI plans? "Your mobility becomes extremely important to be involved and connected to audiences that are mobile and that tend to be, frankly, younger and, as we think of it at USAGM, future leaders, who can influence the rise of free and open societies.". Share Your Design Ideas, New JerseysMurphy Defends $10 Billion Rainy Day Fund as States Economy Slows, What Led to Europes Deadliest Train Crash in a Decade, This Week in Crypto: Ukraine War, Marathon Digital, FTX.