System/Policy
Union sees headway on DEI goals at NPR but highlights ‘a lot more work to do’
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NPR’s SAG-AFTRA union issued a mixed progress report this month on its demands for addressing diversity issues within the network.
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NPR’s SAG-AFTRA union issued a mixed progress report this month on its demands for addressing diversity issues within the network.
Rascoe succeeds Lulu Garcia-Navarro, who left NPR last fall for the New York Times.
NPR began rotating hosts and other staffers from its newsmagazines and international desk through Ukraine in January.
The network argued that former employee Kevin Langley had released discrimination claims when he signed a separation agreement.
“Writing a biography of a person or place, much less four people and a place as storied as NPR, is not for the faint of heart.”
The new handbook will go beyond NPR’s existing ethics guide to focus on station-specific issues, such as editorial independence from university and school district licensees.
The complaint echoes another discrimination suit against the network.
Cornish will be an anchor and correspondent for CNN’s forthcoming streaming subscription service.
Cornish’s last day hosting “All Things Considered” will be Friday.
Public radio listeners will continue to hear King on stations when “Today, Explained” is distributed next year.
Paul Maassen of WWNO said during a network board meeting that NPR and stations are working on podcasts in a “siloed environment.”
In an excerpt from his new book, “Cokie: A Life Well Lived,” Steve Roberts recounts how Cokie Roberts overcame obstacles in her path to working at NPR with some help from “the old girls’ network.”
The former basketball star turned ESPN commentator Williams will ask his guests “how they continue to build their own businesses and hustle to the point of their own personal brand … because that’s exactly where I am in my life.”
Nobody’s realization that Facebook is out of control came just this year. So why did NPR ever accept its sponsorship dollars?
“The big challenge is going to be thinking about where Morning Edition goes as a show, in five years and 10 years.”
A narrow challenge to a law banning broadcasts of criminal proceedings may help expand journalists’ ability to cover trials.
Unit members overwhelmingly approved the three-year deal.
The Ozy Media CEO stepped down as the governance committee prepared to reconsider his role on the board.
“Enterprising local reports from newsrooms across the country are simply not reflected enough in the NPR’s signature news magazines,” writes former CPB Board member Howard Husock.
NPR has exceeded financial expectations in the current fiscal year thanks in part to a “great resurgence” in sponsorship.