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. Applicants to this years fellowship see its cancellation as a setback for journalists of color who want to work in public radio. People, given the opportunity, will do the right thing in a way that hopefully makes them want to be here for a long time. A graduate of Bellarmine University, he was named to the Bellarmine University Gallery of Distinguished Graduates in 2010. 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. Lansing: Back in May and June, it was an alarming decline in radio ratings. 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. It did not drive a lot of immediate donations, but there were some. The ratings have tanked because all they talk about is race. According to Nielsen data supplied by NPR, its programs and newscasts had an overall audience of 27.4 million in spring 2019. It's not just what happened this week on the Hill, although that's important. It might come from my journalistic roots, and I think other journalists would say the same thing, I deal [with] and honor the truth. I think as a white man, I know and have experienced that feeling of trepidation on discussions on issues of race, because there's an inherent fear that somebody is going to have a negative point of view about you. Just be tuned into our folks. "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. 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. 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. Put that pizza box in the trash. 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. Or persons of color who are in our organization that are hearing [about] a lot of activity but arent experiencing what they believe they should be experiencing in terms of a workplace where they feel like they can grow and improve their work and improve their careers. 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. They lost their objectivity and are now just pushing leftist ideology. What do you think are some characteristics of good leadership? NPR will cut 10% of its workforce, CEO John Lansing said Wednesday. John Lansing, CEO, photographed for NPR, 22 January 2020, in Washington DC. Lansing describes himself as a citizen watching from the outside A private citizen? Our DEI efforts at the beginning of 2020 were not a project or an extracurricular activity; it really became our work. We had begun a lot of work under [Chief Diversity Officer] Keith Woods' leadership to really move us forward. A member of the Republican Party, Gibbs was a software engineer and missionary before entering politics. 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. 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. Mr. Mohn led the push into podcasting and helped stabilize the organization after years of management turnover and budget deficits. He guided the organization in becoming a leading developer of unique content across television, digital, mobile and radio platforms. Today, we feature John Lansing, CEO of NPR. 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. Government support for the public radio system isnt in any immediate jeopardy. 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. This is simply disingenuous. Apple is reportedly building a podcast subscription service. Lansing served for ten years as a visiting faculty member at the Poynter Institute for Media Studies. 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. He held off a push by House Republicans to spin off Voice of America into a non-governmental broadcaster. 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. Lansings tenure at the agency has not been without controversy. I will say in the last three or four weeks weve seen a little bit of an uptick in a positive way on corporate sponsorship. And what a breath of fresh air Whitney brings into the organization. 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. Since then, sponsorship revenue has returned, Mr. Lansing said, and NPR was able to navigate the pandemic without cutting staff. And its tied to the same variables you would know yourselves, which is, how fast can the vaccines be deployed? 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. The message below was sent by NPR's President and CEO John Lansing to all staff: As a . I'm kind of a politics junkie. NPR Names Veteran Media Executive John Lansing As Its New CEO, News That Matters, Delivered To Your Inbox. 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. 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. 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. I joined in October of '19. In May 2020, four NPR female hosts of color Garcia-Navarro, King, All Things Considered host Ailsa Chang and Weekend All Things Considered host Michel Martin sent a letter to Lansing . "We managed to get through that year, tough as it was, and to end the year break even," Mr. Lansing said. 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 Foundation. Way back when, I was a news cameraman. Lansing will start in his new position in mid-October. For two years, he served as the president and CEO of a cable trade group called the Cable and Telecommunications Association for Marketing. But here, Lansing basically jumps over those disclaimers using the lame attribution of private citizen.. Notify me of follow-up comments by email. As I said, its hiring, its emphasis on diversity in leadership, diversity in sources, diversity in voices, diversity in the stories we tell, training around our organization. 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. 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%. And our work began then. And as the year unfolded, we began to develop our three-year strategic plan. NPR maintains 17 national bureaus and 17 bureaus abroad. NPR Start Date: Mid October, 2020 This is an edited transcript of the conversation among Lansing, Current Reporter Tyler Falk and Digital Editor Mike Janssen. Every time I hear it, I think that's a success by itself because we all have that as our guiding light. Anyone can read what you share. Mike Morgan/Mike Morgan So we were pleased to see SAG-AFTRA join our efforts. 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. "I have been an avid fan of NPR for many years. September 6, 2019. It really stretched me to understand that flexibility is a good thing. 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. We saw a lot of companies react to the [murder of] George Floyd and we did too. And some stations who had a schedule to go down actually were allowed to go down. To see more, visit https://www.npr.org. That said, Mohn set higher annual expectations for the network in fundraising and agreed to be co-chairman of its 50th-anniversary capital campaign. 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. I am still morning the loss of an objective NPR. administration regarding the now former managers of his former place of employment (USAGM) but claims the mantle of private citizen to do so. So it's kind of inseparable, that coming in as CEO of NPR, and then six months in having the coronavirus, followed by a major economic downturn in the country and for NPR, and then the reckoning that summer. Twitter: https://twitter.com/johnlansing. 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. Mohn will continue on as President Emeritus & Co-Chair of the 50th Anniversary Campaign. The varied broadcasters also offered jazz and other music to appeal to people under communist regimes using a soft form of diplomacy. "Jarl would be the first to say that it is the area where he feels that his work was not complete," Sheikholeslami said. NPR only takes a few million dollars a year from federal sources for its programs. We discovered in our most recent climate survey that that was an area that we needed to put more effort into. I think there are interesting trends to follow and try to understand. 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 would tell my younger self to be confident, calm down, it's all gonna work out. 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. 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. NPR's Michel Martin asks NPR's CEO, John Lansing, to respond to an All Things Considered interview with Secretary of State Mike Pompeo. John Lansing will begin his term as President and CEO of NPR in October, 2019. Lansing also spent almost 20 years working at Scripps, including eight years as President of Scripps Networks. So Im pleased to see that that short era is over. 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. 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. 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. The agency has an annual budget of $808 million. John Lansing becomes CEO of NPR NPR, the public radio giant that employs hundreds of journalists, is about to get a new chief executive. All rights reserved. He made his mark in his current job with stirring defenses of journalism, free from government interference. But also, what are the larger things that are happening? 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. Bellarmine alumnus and former trustee John Lansing, a veteran cable television and government broadcast executive, is the new CEO of NPR. First, we're a nonprofit. Follow Bloomberg reporters as they uncover some of the biggest financial crimes of the modern era. Their editorial independence is enshrined in federal law, though it sometimes came under attack. 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. That was revised as a result. 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.". It's interesting. So hes doubling down on lack of diversity, does that mean he wants his audience to reflect the other half of the country, the conservatives in flyover country? 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. And it really opened the funnel. He will now lead the nation's top audio producer and broadcaster. My top goal is to support the women of color at NPR so that they feel like they have more upward mobility.. 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. I think the work Keith has been doing long before I got here on diversity in tracking sources and the storytelling that we're doing around the company has really been effective in the area of DEI on radio, podcasting, and digital. ", He continued: "Citizens in countries from Russia to China, from Iran to North Korea, have been victimized for decades. 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 . Lansing also elevated to chief strategy officer a former U.S. State Department staffer who recently pleaded guilty to having defrauded the U.S. Agency for Global Media out of more than $40,000 in government money in 2018, according to federal prosecutors. The ratings for our weekend magazine shows are actually slightly greater than they were a year ago pre-pandemic, so thats a bright spot.. In these comments, John Lansing slides by with a public swipe at the Trump Mr. Lansing, who began his career as a teenage cameraman at a television station in Kentucky, spent two decades at Scripps Networks. During 2021, we worked on that with Keith and with Diversity and Inclusion Manager Whitney Maddox. 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. I, and the management team, all of us, we determined that was going to be a priority for the year 2021. John Lansing, the chief executive officer and director of the U.S. Agency for Global Media, will become NPR's CEO in mid-October. Current: Is there a timeline for that process? Lansing: Thats a great question. And weve seen some significant success with that. A review by the House Foreign Affairs Committee faulted the agency for insufficient oversight but noted that an internal task force was already having an impact. In an interview, Mr. Lansing called the ads a rogue incident and said it had been corrected. Weve had a couple of significant anonymous gifts that have helped shore up our forecast for the coming fiscal year. We have many miles to go. 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. And as a CEO, and also as a white man, I want to know, how did you handle it when all eyes were on you? Mr. Mohn was pressed about his leadership in a tense NPR interview and later apologized to employees for not taking action sooner. Current: Do you have any examples of how digital operations would be integrated into divisions throughout the organization? 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. Learn more at npr.org/about or by following NPR Extra on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. The network's fight for listeners' time has become more feverish. NPR's president of operations, Loren Mayor, was the leading internal candidate for the chief executive position. Scripps Company, where he managed the company's portfolio of ten broadcast television stations across the country. 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 cut short the unwanted attention he paid to female colleagues proved ineffective. 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. 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. 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. That's a big thing too: having a common understanding of what management's committed to, what the Board supports, the work that's in front of us to live up to it, and ultimately diversifying our audience which leads to the business purpose. Fear drives their path. In 2019, Joshua Johnson left 1A, a nationally syndicated public affairs show produced by WAMU in Washington, D.C., and distributed by NPR, for MSNBC. So those are the four pillars that rotate around the centerpiece, we call it the North Star, of our commitment to DEI. 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. 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. The varied broadcasters also offered jazz and other music to appeal to people under Communist regimes using a soft form of diplomacy. Lansing: We hope to have that completed within about eight to 10 weeks. Built with the Largo WordPress Theme from the Institute for Nonprofit News. Its an inclusive process. Lansing said he took pride in maintaining conventional broadcasts while appealing to new audiences, reaching about 25% more people each week. Current: NPRs budget also took a hit because of the pandemic. Others have waded into the podcast fray with a vengeance. I'm sure that's true even today. There were about 20, 25 different meetings in the course of about 45 days. 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. There was one the year before I was here, then this was the follow-up. 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.. 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 is a media executive with a deep understanding of journalism, having spent two decades as an award-winning journalist, successful newsroom leader and major market local media executive before becoming a global chief executive officer. So its an ongoing effort. Mohn fired head of news Michael Oreskes on Halloween 2017. Current: Companies like Spotify and Amazon have been pouring big money into podcasting. 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. The first pillar is to expand the power of the national-local partnership into the on-demand future. Your email address will not be published. So I think that it has caused me to be more tuned in to hearing and understanding our employees. August 20, 2022 August 20th is National Radio Day. The combination of his health issues plus the situation with Mike Oreskes did derail his plans.. MICHEL MARTIN, HOST: We'd like to revisit a story. He began his career in media at age 17 when he was hired as a studio technician and cameraman for WPSD TV in Kentucky. 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. Copyright 2023. In an interview, Lansing said he wants to build on NPRs successes in broadcast news and entertainment to become even more dominant in podcasting and more prevalent in streaming. 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. Did you know that one day you would become a CEO? NPR, the public radio and podcasting giant, has a new leader after years of growth and internal turmoil. He will be the 11th permanent president or chief executive in the radio network's nearly 50-year history. How cool is it to be at NPR? Well, I like NPR Politics a lot. I think you have to be in front of your teams. What steps does NPR still need to take in this area? It didnt begin in the summer it accelerated in the summer. That's the way I think about leadership here. I had been gone for the better part of a year or so. Jarl would be the first to say that it is the area where he feels that his work was not complete, Sheikholeslami said. 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. He will be the 11th permanent president or chief executive in the radio networks nearly 50-year history. Talk about a force of nature. I have read and agree to the terms & conditions, Senior Vice President for Television in the broadcasting division of the E.W. And now in our budgeting were shifting some revenue for Michael to use that to promote and support our podcasts as they compete, as you note, with other large commercial businesses. But were going to continue to follow up on that going into this year. CEO John Lansing discusses NPRs diversity efforts, budget deficit and growing podcast competition. This documentary-style series follows investigative journalists as they uncover the truth. I thought, wow. Live from New York and London, analyzing the major market moving stories across the day in Europe, hear from the biggest newsmakers and showcase the unrivaled expertise of Bloomberg News. NPR CEO Jarl Mohn To Step Down After 5-Year Term Ends In June, Tensions Build In NPR Newsroom Over Handling Of Sexual Harassment Allegations, NPR Announces Newsroom Job Cuts Amid Restructuring. But we made a firm commitment, as you know, to freeze station dues and fees. When you first got to NPR, what did you think? America needs public radio more than ever. I think you have to be willing to take hard questions. Drive a lot of work under [ chief Diversity Officer ] Keith Woods ' leadership to really us. A News cameraman 20, 2022 august 20th is national radio Day mr. Lansing said and! 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