So were now into the new fiscal year. Mohn led NPR through five consecutive years of audience growth and budget surplus. The result, I believe, is a war on truth., He continued: Citizens in countries from Russia to China, from Iran to North Korea, have been victimized for decades. In Mr. Mohns first full year on the job, NPR operated in the black after having run a deficit for five of the six preceding years. Government support for the public radio system isnt in any immediate jeopardy. Lansing: Lets go back in time. 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. But also, what are the larger things that are happening? Our third pillar is to optimize content and meet audiences where they are. Well, what we're doing right now, I think communication. administration regarding the now former managers of his former place of employment (USAGM) but claims the mantle of private citizen to do so. Way back when, I was a news cameraman. And our number one goal is to improve our audience diversity. I think you have to be in front of your teams. Lansing: Were still working on it right now. Age: 62, Born on July 31, 1957, in Minneapolis Under standard procedures for reporting on NPR matters, NPR's corporate and news executives were not allowed to review the report until it was posted. 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. That survey happened in the fall of 2020. I was very pleased to see Code Switch named as Apples top podcast of the year. Chief Executive Officer and Director of the, Cable & Telecommunications Association for Marketing, Florangela Davila to Become KNKX News Director, NPR Hires Noelle LaCharite As VP Digital Technology. As we moved through the summer, that deficit remained at about $25 million. But second, we're mission-driven, and I think everybody in the organization lives and breathes that mission. 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. 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. Lansing, 62, who is currently chief executive officer of the government agency that oversees Voice of America, Radio and Television Mart and Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty, among others . 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. 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. The second pillar is to transform our workplace culture. As we got to April of last spring, we saw a massive deficit develop for NPR on the order of about $25 million. John Lansing, CEO, photographed for NPR, 22 January 2020, in Washington DC. He will be the 11th permanent president or chief executive in the radio networks nearly 50-year history. Its not a sidebar. He served on the Bellarmine University Board of Trustees from 2010-2016 and was vice-chair 2014-2016. John Lansing, CEO, photographed for NPR, 22 January 2020, in Washington DC. U.S. Agency for Global Media Current: How else might NPR assist stations in the coming year? John Lansing, the chief executive officer and director of the U.S. Agency for Global Media, will become NPR's CEO in mid-October. He will now lead the nation's top audio producer and broadcaster. And weve seen some significant success with that. I'm from Minneapolis, and my parents are buried about six blocks from where George Floyd was killed. And theyre all expected to articulate a DEI goal thats measurable, actionable, and that they can be held accountable for and will be. Today is a good day to remember the vital role public radio plays in providing the information we all need to fully exercise our rights in our democracy. So Im pleased to see that that short era is over. Family Status: Married with 4 Children (Jean Rausch Lansing) 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. The only route to a successful engagement on this issue is to deal with it, to talk about it, and to take action. I have a negative reaction to what is fundamentally unfair in life, whether it be pay equity, promotions and advancement, training and hiring, or making sure leadership represents people of color and our staff. Required fields are marked *. "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. 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. This is just dishonest, especially since NPR became what amounted to a voice of the opposition in its coverage of this dysfunctional federal agency. Today, those individual situations are happening in the background when everybody's working, whether it's kids that are school age, or kids that are toddlers, or elder care, or spouses working in the same room or in the same apartment. Instead, Whitney really helped us to buckle down with discipline, understand what's going on, and meet with women of color [in the organization], as we're doing tonight in our executive committee meeting, which we do regularly now. The networks fight for listeners time has become more feverish. [1] [2] Born and raised in Albany, New York, Lansing was trained as a lawyer, and was long involved in politics and government. And for those stations that were scheduled to have a reduction, we allowed those reductions to go forward with a floor of 3% so that nobodys dues went up. And so that was the way I looked at the future for me. Lansing: You have to imagine a picture, if you will. Podtrac, which measures the audiences of podcast publishers, has consistently placed NPR at the top of its monthly rankings. We went from about 900 people a day at headquarters down to about 80 and were virtually broadcasting from peoples homes and offices, in terms of the hosts, almost exclusively beginning in April. We're funded by your subscriptions, your donations, advertising, and a generous grant from the Wyncote Foundation. 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. Lansing blamed a slowdown in advertising dollars. 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. 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. A member of the Republican Party, Gibbs was a software engineer and missionary before entering politics. Live from. But it was not from a standing start. 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. He soon made DEI the top priority at NPR. Well, I'm fortunate that we have a terrific executive committee and leadership team, so we all share the daily ins and outs of managing a big organization. We are different from other federal agencies, said Grant K. Turner, the agencys chief financial officer. The ratings for our weekend magazine shows are actually slightly greater than they were a year ago pre-pandemic, so thats a bright spot.. While serving as chief operating officer, she took on a greater role during two of Mohns medical leaves and in the aftermath of the sexual harassment scandal. Our newsletters bring you a closer look at the stories that affect you and the music that inspires you. Current: NPR and a group of stations started a pilot project around collaborative fundraising in 2019. 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 my goals also go to all of my direct reports. 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%. From 2015 to 2019, Lansing served as the CEO of the U.S. Agency for Global Media (USAGM), the independent federal agency whose programming reaches an average weekly audience of 345 million people in 62 languages. "I want to hear the ideas that are bubbling underneath right now and what people are excited about, what they're looking forward to developing," Lansing said Thursday. The network has won acclaim for its coverage of wars and disasters, yet suffered its own crisis and tragedy in 2016 when its David Gilkey and Zabihullah Tamanna were killed while on assignment in southern Afghanistan. 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NPR only takes a few million dollars a year from federal sources for its programs. They lost their objectivity and are now just pushing leftist ideology. Lansing was most recently the CEO of USAGM, a $800 million dollar independent federal agency that operates on multiple platforms reaching an average weekly audience of 345 million in 61 languages. He is. Vegas PBS General Manager, Tom Axtell, announces his retirement. While member stations on average receive about 10% of their funding from the federal government, fees from the stations make up a significant part of the NPR budget. Mr. Lansings colleagues attribute the growth to his embrace of digital formats and the understanding of audiences that he gleaned from the private sector. Follow Bloomberg reporters as they uncover some of the biggest financial crimes of the modern era. John Lansing, the chief executive officer and director of the U.S. Agency for Global Media, will become NPR's CEO in mid-October. NPR Selects Voice of America Boss as Its New Leader, https://www.nytimes.com/2019/09/06/business/media/npr-john-lansing.html. He made his mark in his current job with stirring defenses of journalism, free from government interference. 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. A graduate of Bellarmine University, he was named to the Bellarmine University Gallery of Distinguished Graduates in 2010. 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. It was about a $3 million cost to NPR for the fiscal year. hide caption. I hear that all the time. The ratings have tanked because all they talk about is race. If we don't get this right, then our audience of the next 50 years will lack the diversity that would give it the ability to grow and thrive and prosper and even survive. Lansing: Back in May and June, it was an alarming decline in radio ratings. Were finishing up in the next two to three weeks the specific lists of actions and activities under these pillars. What is the outlook for the rest of the fiscal year? 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 Mohns health crises. Were working with them to do joint investigative reporting. Mike Morgan/Mike Morgan The work of those pillars will be done through the lens of improving our efforts on DEI. Lansing, who is 62, is. Lansing says the agency referred Haroon Ullahs 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. It is our work our North Star and our work are the same thing. Copyright 2019 NPR. Saul Loeb/AFP via Getty Images NPR's chief executive announced the. It began to improve a little bit as we moved into August and September, as corporate sponsorships began to recover a little bit. The ratings for our weekend magazine shows are actually slightly greater than they were a year ago pre-pandemic, so thats a bright spot. 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. It might come from my journalistic roots, and I think other journalists would say the same thing, I deal [with] and honor the truth. Current: Last year, the SAG-AFTRA union called out NPRs previous failures on issues of diversity, equity and inclusion and asked management to commit to accountability measures. First of all, as a white man, my first reaction is that it's important for white people in general to understand the inherent biases that we have, even when we think we don't, unconsciously. And some stations who had a schedule to go down actually were allowed to go down. Current: What challenges have you faced in implementing your DEI plans? 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. NPR maintains 17 national bureaus and 17 bureaus abroad. And it really opened the funnel. The combination of his health issues plus the situation with Mike Oreskes did derail his plans.. Lansing started his news industry career at age 17 as a studio technician and cameraman at WPSD TV, Paducah, KY, where he was promoted to news photographer after two years. And I still think we have a long way to go. NPR, the public radio and podcasting giant, has a new leader after years of growth and internal turmoil. But thats our commitment. 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.. And the work goes on. Being selective, having mentors both white and people of color mentors that you can have confidential conversations with and gain some thoughts to help you develop your strategy, standing up for yourself which essentially is what happened at NPR through the climate survey and holding leaders accountable for everything. Let's say, I was walking out of high school into college, I had no idea what I was going to do. Lansing's previous experience includes nine years as President of Scripps Networks, where he is credited with guiding the company to become a leading developer of unique content across various media platforms including television, digital, mobile and publishing. "He is 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. I'm kind of a politics junkie. The post NPR Names Juana Summers as Co-Host of 'All Things Considered' appeared first on New York Times. 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. We saw a lot of companies react to the [murder of] George Floyd and we did too. But now were seeing authoritarian regimes expanding around the globe, with media repression in places like Turkey and Venezuela, Cambodia and Vietnam.. We discovered in our most recent climate survey that that was an area that we needed to put more effort into. 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'm sure that's true even today. 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. Lansing, who is 62, is currently CEO of the government agency that oversees Voice of America, Radio and Television Marti, Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty, among others. In an email to the staff on Friday, John Lansing, who joined the nonprofit as chief executive in September, projected that NPR would fall $12 million to $15 million short of the amount it had . Scripps Networks September 5, 2019; Washington, D.C. - The NPR Board of Directors announced today that it. Current: How have your priorities for NPR changed since you became CEO? Lansing: Everybodys at a different place with DEI depending on where they stand, whether thats a person who is white and doesnt understand how white privilege has improved their standing in their career in a way that persons of color may have not experienced. 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. 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. He defined NPRs mission as serving the public with information and an excellence and quality about it that makes it must see on a variety of platforms.. 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. Notify me of follow-up comments by email. NPR has also been the nations leading producer of podcasts, since Podtrac started measuring the audiences. Will there be another stimulus? But here, Lansing basically jumps over those disclaimers using the lame attribution of private citizen.. For two years, he served as the president and CEO of a cable trade group called the Cable and Telecommunications Association for Marketing. It's not an extracurricular activity; it's fundamental to our business. At a young age, my biggest goal at the time was to someday be a news director for a local TV station. NPR has tapped longtime media executive John Lansing to become its next president and CEO. Ever since I've started, I've noticed that you've been very vocal about the need for diversity. The title of your piece, "Now Is A Time For Truth Telling, For Listening, And For Action," takes a bold stand in defending the urgent work of journalists during this . Both Lansing and Sheikholeslami say he is adamant about pressing forward with reforms to the workplace culture at NPR that Mayor has already started to put in place. John Lansing, NPR's President and CEO, said the unique arrangement comes at an important time for NPR and for journalism. Every time I hear it, I think that's a success by itself because we all have that as our guiding light. Leading the organization through it all is CEO John Lansing, a longtime media executive who has been on the job since October 2019. NPR's rigorous reporting and unsurpassed storytelling connect with millions of Americans everydayon the air, online, and in person. How does the economy react to all of that? Well, I like NPR Politics a lot. 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. I'm just passionate about how good leadership can lead to good outcomes, and that led me here. The first pillar is to expand the power of the national-local partnership into the on-demand future. hide caption. 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. Lansing also spent almost 20 years working at Scripps, including eight years as President of Scripps Networks. Current (https://current.org/2021/02/ceo-john-lansing-discusses-nprs-diversity-efforts-budget-deficit-and-growing-podcast-competition/). 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. It takes a good days drive to cover Colorado, but well help you do it in a few minutes. So at the end of the day, its a commitment, but this also has to be accountability. 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.". Certainly in the aftermath of the George Floyd murder on Memorial Day weekend, our efforts accelerated and we doubled down on communication, training and listening. That with a combination of expense cuts, including our employees and our management all taking voluntary pay cuts and benefit cuts, helped close that deficit gap. Bloomberg Markets European Close. Bloomberg Markets live from New York, focused on bringing you the most important global business and breaking markets news and information as it happens. Selected by the NPR board of directors, Lansing will start in October, succeeding outgoing head Jarl Mohn, "The combination of his health issues plus the situation with Mike Oreskes did derail his plans.". So sad to lose an American institution to propaganda. 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