Essentially, the success of the company falls in your hands. Mr. Lansing rejected that accusation, saying that the agency was independent by law. 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. 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. 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. I would enjoy being on a podcast talking about politics. NPR only takes a few million dollars a year from federal sources for its programs. 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. Lansing: Thats a great question. 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. 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. Weve seen significant growth in Code Switch, in Louder Than a Riot, in Sam Sanders podcast [Its Been a Minute], in part because for the first time in a while, were really investing in marketing support for those podcasts. Video Snippet Lansing will begin his term at NPR in October and will succeed Jarl Mohn, who has been Chief Executive Officer and President since 2014. That's something that perceptive journalists should be able to pick up pretty quickly. 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. But we felt like it was an important investment to make in our member stations to support them during the pandemic. Lansing's tenure at the agency has not been without controversy. Colorados largest compost processor will no longer accept packaging and paper products, Small liquor stores pivot to more food and delivery as Colorado grocers roll out wine sales, Peloton for horses: Colorado sisters launch equestrian coaching app, The Local 303: Colorado artists were featuring for March 2023. Weve also seen very positive upticks in development. He was promoted to news photographer after two years, then moved on to managing editor, news director, and leadership of commercial television affiliates around the country. When will that freeze be lifted? 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. We established management commitments to the women of color so that we address specifically their concerns. 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. 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 . The roots of the VOA involved providing truthful reports to people under Nazi and Axis power rule during World War Two. If it's not being solved from the top down, it shouldn't be a burden for people just trying to build their career. I just think we have a special and unique thing as a company. 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? If you had to create a podcast, what would it be about? The work of those pillars will be done through the lens of improving our efforts on DEI. That's the way I think about leadership here. "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. And weve seen that really help them grow. 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. Others have waded into the podcast fray with a vengeance. I'm sure that's true even today. And weve seen some significant success with that. Lansing: About 11 months ago, in February, a pilot group of 15 stations got together and put together an 18-month plan to begin the process. Were working with them to create regional newsrooms in Texas and California and the Midwest and in the Gulf. 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. 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. NPR has a new CEO. The ratings for our weekend magazine shows are actually slightly greater than they were a year ago pre-pandemic, so thats a bright spot.. And I had a lot of interest in how my former team was being treated, but more importantly, just as an American citizen, how the work of USAGM through VOA [Voice of America] and RFE/RL [Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty] was threatening to undermine the interests of the United States government by politicizing journalism that was meant by law to be free of political interference. John Lansing will begin his term as President and CEO of NPR in October, 2019. Podtrac, which measures the audiences of podcast publishers, has consistently placed NPR at the top of its monthly rankings. 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. "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. Current. Lansing: That was conducted back in September. Saul Loeb/AFP via Getty Images NPR's chief executive announced the. Lansing said he took pride in maintaining conventional broadcasts while appealing to new audiences, reaching about 25% more people each week. It was a reckoning for all of us together collectively at NPR. NPR headquarters in Washington, D.C. Lansing has earned an advanced degree in political agility. Current: Is there a timeline for that process? John Lansing will begin his term as President and CEO of NPR in October, 2019. I had no idea what was out there. NPR's search for a new CEO is finally over! Lansing describes himself as a citizen watching from the outside A private citizen? 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. I think you have to be transparent and be able to explain what you're doing, even if it's unpopular. A graduate of Bellarmine University, he was named to the Bellarmine University Gallery of Distinguished Graduates in 2010. "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. I had been gone for the better part of a year or so. 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. 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. Our newsletters bring you a closer look at the stories that affect you and the music that inspires you. I established DEI as our top priority on Jan. 5 of 2020. Put that pizza box in the trash. Oh wait. Again, I think it's about getting it intertwined into everything we do. How has that effort been progressing? Current: With broadcast listening declining during the pandemic, what is NPR doing to address and adjust to those trends? So mentally, how do you manage that? 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. He took over a troubled organization beset by infighting and bureaucratic inefficiency. Current: Do you have any examples of how digital operations would be integrated into divisions throughout the organization? You hear me say fairly often it's not a thing that's going to end; it's really a new way of operating with an awareness of this weakness that we need to address and build upon and ensure that it lives on and continues to improve. 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 So sad to lose an American institution to propaganda. But my goals also go to all of my direct reports. A member of the Republican Party, Gibbs was a software engineer and missionary before entering politics. 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. 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. Lansing: We arent in a position to answer that until we know for sure when the pandemic is going to subside. So its an ongoing effort. Vegas PBS General Manager, Tom Axtell, announces his retirement. What you really want to do is be connected to people that are consuming content on something theyre holding in their hand, and arent necessarily tied to a TV set on a wall or a radio in a living room, Lansing said. John Gibbs is an American far-right political commentator and politician. To be a part of creating the future of such an important institution is humbling, exciting, and a distinct honor.". She also has led initiatives to reform hiring practices and to sweep far more temporary positions into permanent slots, often working closely with the networks chief unions to do so. Mr. Mohn led the push into podcasting and helped stabilize the organization after years of management turnover and budget deficits. Twitter: https://twitter.com/johnlansing. During the Donald Trump administration, he held roles in the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, and was acting Assistant Secretary of Housing and Urban Development for Community Planning and Development. Let's say, I was walking out of high school into college, I had no idea what I was going to do. According to Nielsen data supplied by NPR, its programs and newscasts had an overall audience of 27.4 million in spring 2019. It didnt begin in the summer it accelerated in the summer. Lansing: They were for general. "We are delighted to welcome John, whose deep experience as a media industry executive and practicing journalist make him ideally suited to lead NPR into its next chapter," said Paul Haaga, Chair of the NPR board. 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. John Lansing, the chief executive officer and director of the U.S. Agency for Global Media, will become NPR's CEO in mid-October. 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. John Lansing is taking over for outgoing CEO. But after the pandemic hit in mid-March, we got together with our cohort and said, Why wait 18 months? I hear that all the time. 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. 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. 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. Or 'How are we doing on the North Star?' 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. NPR takes only a few million dollars a year from federal sources for its programs. 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 broadcasters like Voice of America and Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty. 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. Current: Did anything else stand out to you in that survey that you believe needed attention and needs attention? 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. Lansing: SAG-AFTRA came out with their letter around our September board meeting in 2020. 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. 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. So I brought in Michael Smith as our new chief marketing officer almost a year ago. Pack then took a number of actions that raised fears about the independence of the agency, which includes Voice of America. From John Lansing: Now Is A Time For Truth Telling, For Listening, And For Action. No. Lansing is a veteran executive and journalist who has spent decades leading complex media companies in growing their relevance and reach, while strengthening their business operations. 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. 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. It might come from my journalistic roots, and I think other journalists would say the same thing, I deal [with] and honor the truth. NPR stands stronger than it did at the outset of Mohns five-year term in 2014. Everybody at NPR knows exactly what you mean when you say, 'What's our North Star?' She also has led initiatives to reform hiring practices and to sweep far more temporary positions into permanent slots, often working closely with the network's chief unions to do so. I thought, wow. NPR What is the outlook for the rest of the fiscal year? One thing I would say is, research the places you're looking at to either begin your career or advance your career and understand where they are on these issues. At the same time, we have to think creatively. 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? Government support for the public radio system isnt in any immediate jeopardy. Family Status: Married with 4 Children (Jean Rausch Lansing) What would you go back and tell your younger self? He will be the 11th permanent president or chief executive in the radio network's nearly 50-year history. Lansing: I guess my head turns first to the journalism of our member stations. She really has helped us, and she's brought discipline to a process that in the past might have been people talking past each other a little bit and waiting for things to blow over. NPR, the public radio and podcasting giant, has a new leader after years of growth and internal turmoil. The network's fight for listeners' time has become more feverish. What we now call the North Star of our strategic plan is our DEI efforts as it filters through everything that we do with all of our work. 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. Because when you're all at work, you're all at work, and you go home to your individual situations. Our third pillar is to optimize content and meet audiences where they are. 2023 Colorado Public Radio. 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. Lansing: Generally, the numbers that we would like to see in terms of the diversity of our audience were still lagging. Then I moved on to manage TV stations and cable networks. 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. How cool is it to be at NPR? Age: 62, Born on July 31, 1957, in Minneapolis NPR's rigorous reporting and unsurpassed storytelling connect with millions of Americans everydayon the air, online, and in person. Way back when, I was a news cameraman. I think there's an awareness, like in the way you asked the question about 'our North Star.' Today, we feature John Lansing, CEO of NPR. 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. And what a breath of fresh air Whitney brings into the organization. You have stated that DEI is your top priority at NPR. 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. I joined in October of '19. Well, what we're doing right now, I think communication. Their editorial independence is enshrined in federal law, though it sometimes came under attack. hide caption. NPR has also been the nation's leading producer of podcasts since Podtrac started measuring audiences. Were consulting with digital media, were consulting with the division heads, and were doing it as an all-hands project so that we get it right. John F Lansing, National Public Radio Inc: Profile and Biography - Bloomberg Markets Live Now Bloomberg TV+ Bloomberg Daybreak Middle East Bloomberg Daybreak Middle East. And were pleased to work with them. So that would be mine. He took over a troubled organization beset by infighting and bureaucratic inefficiency. 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. 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. NPR faces financial pressures from two fronts. We have many miles to go. John Lansing, a media executive with government broadcast and cable television experience, has been named by NPR's board to succeed its current chief, Jarl Mohn who announced the plan to step down after his 5-Year term ended. MICHEL MARTIN, HOST: We'd like to revisit a story. He made his mark in his current job with stirring defenses of journalism, free from government interference. It is our work. Were certainly not over, were not at a finish line. At Colorado Public Radio, I think there was a $300,000 donation that came out of that. The roots of the VOA involved providing truthful reports to people under Nazi and Axis power rule during World War II. So if you have leaders talking about DEI as a priority, well, then, show me. I am still morning the loss of an objective NPR. That was due largely to reductions in corporate sponsorship and also additional expenses we were incurring in supporting our employees with paid time off, as we adjusted to the new working arrangements and the stresses that we were all under and also the additional expense of cleaning the headquarters multiple times a day on certain occasions. First, we're a nonprofit. Why? There was one the year before I was here, then this was the follow-up. Talk about a force of nature. He is credited with restoring morale, in part by naming a noted journalist as head of the Voice of America: Amanda Bennett is a former top news executive at the Philadelphia Inquirer who previously held senior newsroom jobs at Bloomberg News and The Wall Street Journal. But second, we're mission-driven, and I think everybody in the organization lives and breathes that mission. 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. But we made a firm commitment, as you know, to freeze station dues and fees. 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. 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. Hes credited with restoring morale, in part by naming a noted journalist as head of the Voice of America: Amanda Bennett is a former top news executive at the Philadelphia Inquirer, who previously held senior newsroom jobs at Bloomberg News and The Wall Street Journal. The only route to a successful engagement on this issue is to deal with it, to talk about it, and to take action. September 6, 2019. That said, Mohn set higher annual expectations for the network in fundraising and agreed to be co-chairman of its 50th-anniversary capital campaign. 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. Others have waded into the podcast fray with a vengeance. 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 still remain one of the top, if not the top, podcasters in America. We can share resources and story ideas, and we can help organize and support those efforts. And so that was the way I looked at the future for me. 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 . It really stretched me to understand that flexibility is a good thing. They lost their objectivity and are now just pushing leftist ideology. 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. "What you really want to do is be connected to people that are consuming content on something they're holding in their hand, and aren't necessarily tied to a TV set on a wall or a radio in a living room," Lansing said. I dont know if youve been on the highway recently, but theres a lot more traffic on the highway today than there would have been last May and June. And its something that I think will strengthen the ability for news programming, marketing and member services to be more responsive and to offer greater service to audiences in a more agile way. NPR is funded by the CPB/PBS which are funded in part by the U.S. government. He soon made DEI the top priority at NPR. He held off a push by House Republicans to spin off Voice of America into a nongovernmental broadcaster. ", He continued: "Citizens in countries from Russia to China, from Iran to North Korea, have been victimized for decades. A vengeance via Getty Images NPR & # x27 ; s chief executive the. 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