Lansing: Its on social media platforms or YouTube or through media partnerships. Michael was a senior marketing executive at Scripps for Food Network and HGTV and really brings a lot of media marketing expertise. Yet Lansing also takes over an institution riven by a scandal that hit its top reaches, with a chief news executive toppled over #MeToo complaints of inappropriate conduct toward female subordinates and colleagues. "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. According to Nielsen data supplied by NPR, its programs and newscasts had an overall audience of 27.4 million in spring 2019. It began to improve a little bit as we moved into August and September, as corporate sponsorships began to recover a little bit. We saw a lot of companies react to the [murder of] George Floyd and we did too. He will now lead the nation's top audio producer and broadcaster. He also vowed to make sure job cuts do not fall disproportionately on employees of color. I have read and agree to the terms & conditions, Senior Vice President for Television in the broadcasting division of the E.W. 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.. hide caption. NPR will cut 10% of its workforce, CEO John Lansing said Wednesday. So we were pleased to see SAG-AFTRA join our efforts. Applicants to this years fellowship see its cancellation as a setback for journalists of color who want to work in public radio. Lansing also spent almost 20 years working at Scripps, including eight years as President of Scripps Networks. 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. It goes on to say that Mr. Lansing, 62, is currently the chief executive of the government agency, The U.S. Agency for Global Media, that oversees Voice of America, Radio and Television Marti, and Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty, among others. Were certainly not over, were not at a finish line. I had been gone for the better part of a year or so. How are you working to shore up NPRs place in the podcasting landscape and compete with deep-pocketed tech companies? Age: 62, Born on July 31, 1957, in Minneapolis It has become enshrined in our three-year strategic plan as the centerpiece of all of our work. Lansing blamed a slowdown in advertising dollars. John Lansing will begin his term as President and CEO of NPR in October, 2019. Current: Can you be more specific about what that looks like in terms of how you reach people who may not already know about NPRs podcasts? You go to college and all the sudden you're like 'wait a minute, I've got to do something when this is over.' Lansing has earned an advanced degree in political agility. Mr. Mohn was pressed about his leadership in a tense NPR interview and later apologized to employees for not taking action sooner. NPR Selects Voice of America Boss as Its New Leader, https://www.nytimes.com/2019/09/06/business/media/npr-john-lansing.html. John Lansing, CEO, photographed for NPR, 22 January 2020, in Washington DC. It shouldn't be on any journalists of color, or anybody of color, to have to go and 'solve this problem' in somebody's company. This is an edited transcript of the conversation among Lansing, Current Reporter Tyler Falk and Digital Editor Mike Janssen. 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 . 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. John Lansing, president and CEO Chair of the NPR Foundation John McGinn Public members of the board Carlos Alvarez, CEO, The Gambrinus Company Fred Dust, designer, speaker, and consultant Paul G. Haaga Jr., retired, Capital Research and Management Company - Chairman of the NPR Board of Directors Mr. Lansing, who began his career as a teenage cameraman at a television station in Kentucky, spent two decades at Scripps Networks. 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. I think that's where we all wind up. 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. Lansing will start in his new position in mid-October. A member of the Republican Party, Gibbs was a software engineer and missionary before entering politics. Apple is reportedly building a podcast subscription service. John Lansing, a media executive with government broadcast and cable television experience, has been named by NPRs board to succeed its current chief, Jarl Mohn who announced the plan to step down after his 5-Year term ended. Networks like Voice of America and Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty are meant to counter disinformation from foreign governments by broadcasting objective reports, although they have always been dogged by an accusation that they are a form of American propaganda. 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. There were three of them, each for $1 million. 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. 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. I think leaders are accountable for walking the walk, for doing what they say they're going to do. Leading the organization through it all is CEO John Lansing, a longtime media executive who has been on the job since October 2019. At Colorado Public Radio, I think there was a $300,000 donation that came out of that. NPR is funded by the CPB/PBS which are funded in part by the U.S. government. Just be tuned into our folks. Lansing: Were still working on it right now. Current: How much were those anonymous gifts? That's something that perceptive journalists should be able to pick up pretty quickly. NPR headquarters in Washington, D.C. Michael A. McCoy for NPR A federal inspector general's investigation has exonerated six government executives who were suspended last year after raising red flags about actions taken by. NPR has tapped longtime media executive John Lansing to become its next president and CEO. Last summer, we definitely had a racial reckoning. 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. Notify me of follow-up comments by email. He is. No. How does the economy react to all of that? But we made a firm commitment, as you know, to freeze station dues and fees. 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. As a subscriber, you have 10 gift articles to give each month. We established the top priority [a.k.a. Current: You came to NPR after serving as CEO of the U.S. Agency for Global Media. Oh wait. "The combination of his health issues plus the situation with Mike Oreskes did derail his plans.". "A really important strategic vector that we'll be talking about more within the company going forward is maximizing the value of the content wherever it can live and wherever the audience demands it," NPR Chief Operating Officer Will Lee says in an interview. Weve seen a gradual comeback. 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. Its an inclusive process. Experts say the behavior could have constituted insider trading. The various challenges everybody's having from working at home, for example, you realize that everybody's situation is different when you're working. In what ways do you think NPR has forced you to grow, and in what areas are you growing that you weren't before NPR? But were going to continue to follow up on that going into this year. "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. My top goal is to support the women of color at NPR so that they feel like they have more upward mobility.. When asked about his priorities, Lansing invoked what he has called the network's "North Star'' since his arrival in the fall of 2019: a push to ensure the network has a bigger and broader audience base, rooted in younger and more diverse listeners, readers and consumers. 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. Its not something weve baked and were just going to hand it down. 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. 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. How do you think that the North Star, the strategic initiative, is going? 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. Now Lansing says he wants to draw on the intellectual and creative impulses of his new staffers as he leads a domestic journalistic powerhouse with an international reputation and reach. The budget for the new fiscal year is set below last years actual based on our forecasts on continued downward pressure on corporate sponsorship. 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. What is the outlook for the rest of the fiscal year? Considering the demise of local newspapers around the country and the growth of our member stations newsrooms around the country, were really working hard to support their local journalism, because its so important to us. Its something that we certainly support. Its new president and chief executive is John Lansing, a former cable executive who for the last five years has run the U.S. Agency for Global Media, the federally funded organization behind. Their editorial independence is enshrined in federal law, though it sometimes came under attack. So that would be mine. Lansing: That was conducted back in September. NPR's chief executive announced the network would lay off roughly 10% of its . It was hard for everyone. . And the pandemic hit six months later in March of '20. John Lansing is a former Obama appointee who was named president and CEO of NPR on Thursday. Arcbazar.com. 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. Current: Why are NPR and its partners looking to sell the Pocket Casts podcast app? 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%. I think there are interesting trends to follow and try to understand. In a private meeting on Thursday President Biden informed Senate Democrats that he will not use his veto power to block a GOP-led effort to repeal D.C.'s new crime law.