Lansing: Were still working on it right now. 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. Lansing: SAG-AFTRA came out with their letter around our September board meeting in 2020. At a young age, my biggest goal at the time was to someday be a news director for a local TV station. I am still morning the loss of an objective NPR. "Jarl would be the first to say that it is the area where he feels that his work was not complete," Sheikholeslami said. But we felt like it was an important investment to make in our member stations to support them during the pandemic. John Lansing, NPR's President and CEO, said the unique arrangement comes at an important time for NPR and for journalism. The first pillar is to expand the power of the national-local partnership into the on-demand future. NPR's Michel Martin asks NPR's CEO, John Lansing, to respond to an All Things Considered interview with Secretary of State Mike Pompeo. All Rights Reserved. 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. He was previously head of cable TV company Scripps Networks, where he sold $10 million in stock after the company became the target of an SEC probe that was not known to the public. 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: Lets go back in time. A graduate of Bellarmine University, he was named to the Bellarmine University Gallery of Distinguished Graduates in 2010. 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. What is the outlook for the rest of the fiscal year? Saul Loeb/AFP via Getty Images NPR's chief executive announced the. Current: When was the climate survey conducted? It has become enshrined in our three-year strategic plan as the centerpiece of all of our work. We are not just putting out regulations or policies and paperwork. That's the way I think about leadership here. NPR's John Lansing Discusses the Importance of Integrity in Journalism By Nicole Jones - October 30, 2020 0 463 NPR National President and CEO John Lansing joined the Belmont community for a conversation about integrity in journalism, highlighting its importance especially during an election year. 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. He will now lead the nations top audio producer and broadcaster. Current: NPR has helped stations during the pandemic by delaying planned changes to the dues they pay. And what a breath of fresh air Whitney brings into the organization. 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. 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. John Lansing, the chief executive officer and director of the U.S. Agency for Global Media, will become NPR's CEO in mid-October. The other is the fight for donors. So I think that it has caused me to be more tuned in to hearing and understanding our employees. 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. NPR maintains 17 national bureaus and 17 bureaus abroad. John Lansing will begin his term as President and CEO of NPR in October, 2019. The other is the fight for donors. NPR stands stronger than it did at the outset of Mohns five-year term in 2014. 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%. The ratings for our weekend magazine shows are actually slightly greater than they were a year ago pre-pandemic, so thats a bright spot. August 20, 2022 August 20th is National Radio Day. From John Lansing: Now Is A Time For Truth Telling, For Listening, And For Action. 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. 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. 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. And Im holding myself accountable with my board and Ive been and am holding my direct reports accountable to me. Did you plan for this or did it kind of just happen? 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.. John F Lansing, National Public Radio Inc: Profile and Biography - Bloomberg Markets Live Now Bloomberg TV+ Bloomberg Daybreak Middle East Bloomberg Daybreak Middle East. 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. He took over a troubled organization beset by infighting and bureaucratic inefficiency. 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. You have stated that DEI is your top priority at NPR. 2016 John Lansing leading a moderated a discussion with the members of the International Media Coordinating Council (ICC) about a unified strategy for the future. There were three of them, each for $1 million. Our newsletters bring you a closer look at the stories that affect you and the music that inspires you. Current: Why are NPR and its partners looking to sell the Pocket Casts podcast app? Current: You came to NPR after serving as CEO of the U.S. Agency for Global Media. He spent two decades at Scripps Networks, starting as a station manager in the Detroit, MI affiliate; eventually becoming President of Scripps cable networks company from 2005 to 2013. John Lansing testifying before a House Appropriations subcommittee in July. Your mobility becomes extremely important to be involved and connected to audiences that are mobile and that tend to be, frankly, younger and, as we think of it at USAGM, future leaders, who can influence the rise of free and open societies.. 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. 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. Family Status: Married with 4 Children (Jean Rausch Lansing) Leading the organization through it all is CEO John Lansing, a longtime media executive who has been on the job since October 2019. Current: How have your priorities for NPR changed since you became CEO? It puts a filter on that helps us explain even unpopular decisions, how they link to our mission. 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. 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'm just passionate about how good leadership can lead to good outcomes, and that led me here. hide caption. Just be tuned into our folks. Current: Companies like Spotify and Amazon have been pouring big money into podcasting. We still remain one of the top, if not the top, podcasters in America. 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. He will be the 11th permanent president or chief executive in the radio network's nearly 50-year history. 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. 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. Lansing will start in his new position in mid-October. Its not something weve baked and were just going to hand it down. While they do not broadcast within the U.S., the Voice of America and the other media outfits Lansing has overseen typically adhere to traditional concepts of factual, nonideological journalism, with the frequent exception of Radio Mart historically an anti-Castro and anti-Cuban communist outlet. 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. Current: What are some of the highlights of that strategic plan? 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. Way back when, I was a news cameraman. 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. Current: You recently made some changes to NPRs digital strategy by moving to integrate digital operations into divisions throughout the organization.This also includes eliminating the role of chief digital officer held by Thomas Hjelm at the end of February. 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. 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. 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. 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. You go to college and all the sudden you're like 'wait a minute, I've got to do something when this is over.' NPR takes only a few million dollars a year from federal sources for its programs. 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 various challenges everybody's having from working at home, for example, you realize that everybody's situation is different when you're working. Bloomberg Markets European Close. But after the pandemic hit in mid-March, we got together with our cohort and said, Why wait 18 months? There were about 20, 25 different meetings in the course of about 45 days. Why? 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. Selected by the NPR board of directors, Lansing will start in October, succeeding outgoing head Jarl Mohn, I just think we have a special and unique thing as a company. 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. 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. 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 established DEI as our top priority on Jan. 5 of 2020. promoting Keith Woods to chief diversity officer, regional newsrooms in Texas and California and the Midwest and in the Gulf, I brought in Michael Smith as our new chief marketing officer, looking to sell the Pocket Casts podcast app, Suspension of NPRs Kroc fellowships disrupts talent development, career plans of student journalists. The roots of the VOA involved providing truthful reports to people under Nazi and Axis power rule during World War Two. But we made a firm commitment, as you know, to freeze station dues and fees. (Former long time member). 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. And my top goal is to support, in particular, the women of color at NPR so that they feel like they have more upward mobility. He was responsible for strategic and operational oversight and P&L of the $2.5 billion division of Scripps Networks Interactive, including the company's portfolio of six cable networks Food Network, HGTV, Travel Channel, DIY, Cooking Channel and Great American Country and the $100 million Scripps Networks Digital division. Learn more at npr.org/about or by following NPR Extra on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. NPR will cut 10% of its workforce, CEO John Lansing said Wednesday. So those are the four pillars that rotate around the centerpiece, we call it the North Star, of our commitment to DEI. I just think that somebody's truth is the truth. Since then, sponsorship revenue has returned, Mr. Lansing said, and NPR was able to navigate the pandemic without cutting staff. 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. Its pretty clear to me that the ratings decline in radio is driven by commuting patterns. 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. And the pandemic hit six months later in March of '20. 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. Mohn will continue on as President Emeritus & Co-Chair of the 50th Anniversary Campaign. Courtesy of Allison Shelley for NPR. Not exactly. 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. September 6, 2019. 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. Disclosure: This story was reported by NPR media correspondent David Folkenflik under guidance from NPR chief business editor Pallavi Gogoi. 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. 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. NPR has a new CEO. John Lansing is taking over for outgoing CEO. U.S. Agency for Global Media 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. Mohn fired head of news Michael Oreskes on Halloween 2017. And I was very proud of the progress we were making. 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. In recent remarks online, Johnson, who is Black, focused on a more competitive landscape for NPR journalists, including people of color. I have read and agree to the terms & conditions, Senior Vice President for Television in the broadcasting division of the E.W. 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. It takes a good days drive to cover Colorado, but well help you do it in a few minutes. He took over a troubled organization beset by infighting and bureaucratic inefficiency. "I have been an avid fan of NPR for many years. He guided the organization in becoming a leading developer of unique content across television, digital, mobile and radio platforms. How has that effort been progressing? 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. Were working with them to do joint investigative reporting. Weve seen a gradual comeback. The roots of the VOA involved providing truthful reports to people under Nazi and Axis power rule during World War II. NPR Selects Voice of America Boss as Its New Leader, https://www.nytimes.com/2019/09/06/business/media/npr-john-lansing.html. How are you working to shore up NPRs place in the podcasting landscape and compete with deep-pocketed tech companies? Lansing: That was conducted back in September. All of those underlying effects generally lead to whatever effects were going to have in corporate sponsorship. Lansing said he took pride in maintaining conventional broadcasts while appealing to new audiences, reaching about 25% more people each week. 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 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. Lansing, who is 62, is. Well, what we're doing right now, I think communication. It was hard for everyone. 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. I would enjoy being on a podcast talking about politics. While they do not broadcast within the U.S., the Voice of America and the other media outfits Lansing has overseen typically adhere to traditional concepts of factual, non-ideological journalism, with the frequent exception of Radio Marti historically an anti-Castro and anti-Cuban communist outlet. For two years, he served as the president and CEO of a cable trade group called the Cable and Telecommunications Association for Marketing. NPR Names Veteran Media Executive John Lansing As Its New CEO, News That Matters, Delivered To Your Inbox. I was very pleased to see Code Switch named as Apples top podcast of the year. Current: NPR and a group of stations started a pilot project around collaborative fundraising in 2019. How is it a priority? 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. "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. I thought, wow. 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. 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. NPR has tapped longtime media executive John Lansing to become its next president and CEO. 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. 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. Their editorial independence is enshrined in federal law, though it sometimes came under attack. We saw a lot of companies react to the [murder of] George Floyd and we did too. NPR's chief executive announced the network would lay off roughly 10% of its current workforce - at least 100 people - and eliminate most vacant positions. When you first got to NPR, what did you think? I'm kind of a politics junkie. "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 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%. But here, Lansing basically jumps over those disclaimers using the lame attribution of private citizen.. NPR has a new CEO. Mohn fired head of news Michael Oreskes on Halloween 2017. 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. Today, we feature John Lansing, CEO of NPR. How do you think that the North Star, the strategic initiative, is going? 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. Its something that we certainly support. And I still think we have a long way to go. So sad to me. I'm sure that's true even today. 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. NPR faces financial pressures from two fronts. And be a good listener. Or 'How are we doing on the North Star?' 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. department of treasury austin texas 73301 phone number; wii sports club unable to acquire data; randolph high school track and field; huntley ritter parents 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 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. 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. Others have waded into the podcast fray with a vengeance. How does the economy react to all of that? Prior to that, Lansing was VP and GM of Scripps ABC affiliates. Mr. Lansing will start in October, replacing Jarl Mohn, who has run NPR since 2014. But thats our commitment. NPR Start Date: Mid October, 2020 NPR's search for a new CEO is finally over! The combination of his health issues plus the situation with Mike Oreskes did derail his plans.. They lost their objectivity and are now just pushing leftist ideology. I think there are interesting trends to follow and try to understand. 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 . 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