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. I'm sure that's true even today. Four years ago, Lansing was named by President Barack Obama to be the first chief executive of the broadcasting outfit that was renamed the U.S. Agency for Global Media. NPR Selects Voice of America Boss as Its New Leader John Gibbs is an American far-right political commentator and politician. I had been gone for the better part of a year or so. Current (https://current.org/2021/02/ceo-john-lansing-discusses-nprs-diversity-efforts-budget-deficit-and-growing-podcast-competition/). Talk about a force of nature. NPR's programming division, which produces its industry-leading podcasts, has more than doubled since 2019. How do you think that the North Star, the strategic initiative, is going? Pozen Fellow At the Shorenstein Center. 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. "The combination of his health issues plus the situation with Mike Oreskes did derail his plans.". So Im pleased to see that that short era is over. And weve seen that really help them grow. Today, we feature John Lansing, CEO of NPR. I have read and agree to the terms & conditions, Senior Vice President for Television in the broadcasting division of the E.W. 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. "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. And I think we have to extend that lead. The second pillar is to transform our workplace culture. How is it a priority? 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. Current: NPRs budget also took a hit because of the pandemic. hide caption. "Nothing is nailed down yet except the principles and what we know we have to reach.". Lansing: Its on social media platforms or YouTube or through media partnerships. 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? I can't speak for other people, CEOs. Mohn fired head of news Michael Oreskes on Halloween 2017. And its tied to the same variables you would know yourselves, which is, how fast can the vaccines be deployed? NPR's New CEO Is Veteran Media Executive John Lansing : NPR - NPR.org Weve had a couple of significant anonymous gifts that have helped shore up our forecast for the coming fiscal year. Fearing a tepid economy, Lansing and his corporate team projected that revenue would stay flat for the fiscal year that began October 1. 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. NPR's president of operations, Loren Mayor, was the leading internal candidate for the chief executive position. 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. I thought, wow. For two years, he served as the president and CEO of a cable trade group called the Cable and Telecommunications Association for Marketing. Current: Is there a timeline for that process? Reliable Sources: NPR names new chief executive | CNN Business They lost their objectivity and are now just pushing leftist ideology. 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. administration regarding the now former managers of his former place of employment (USAGM) but claims the mantle of private citizen to do so. 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? So I wouldn't create a politics podcast because there are too many, and we have the best one of many already. NPR announces layoffs, cutting jobs by 10% as ad revenue drops : NPR Lansing said he took pride in maintaining conventional broadcasts while appealing to new audiences, reaching about 25% more people each week. 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. 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. If you had to create a podcast, what would it be about? At the same time, we have to think creatively. And so that was the way I looked at the future for me. 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. NPR stands stronger than it did at the outset of Mohn's five-year term in 2014. Selected by the NPR board of directors, Lansing will start in October, succeeding outgoing head Jarl Mohn, In setting NPR's earlier rounds of budget cuts a couple months ago, Lansing consulted ahead of time with leaders of the unions representing workers at NPR with an eye to avoiding any layoffs. "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.". Mike Morgan/Mike Morgan When you first got to NPR, what did you think? 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. 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. Pack then took a number of actions that raised fears about the independence of the agency, which includes Voice of America. The budget for the new fiscal year is set below last years actual based on our forecasts on continued downward pressure on corporate sponsorship. It is our work our North Star and our work are the same thing. Being a changemaker is awesome, but can have its own challenges as you're just trying to improve your career. 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. 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. John Lansing will begin his term as President and CEO of NPR in October, 2019. NPR Names John Lansing President And CEO : NPR - NPR.org NPR hosts' departures fuel questions over race. The full story is 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. In these comments, John Lansing slides by with a public swipe at the Trump Current: How have your priorities for NPR changed since you became CEO? When that happened, it energized us to really double down on understanding where our weak spots were, what we needed to work on. Scripps Networks September 5, 2019; Washington, D.C. - The NPR Board of Directors announced today that it. What makes you so open and vocal about the need for diversity? 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. National Public Radio will reduce its workforce by 10 percent as it grapples with what CEO John Lansing says is a "sharp . 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. Copyright 2023. 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 II. Every time I hear it, I think that's a success by itself because we all have that as our guiding light. And it really opened the funnel. Bellarmine alumnus and former trustee John Lansing, a veteran cable television and government broadcast executive, is the new CEO of NPR. Lansing blamed a slowdown in advertising dollars. 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. Faces of NPR: John Lansing : NPR Extra : NPR - NPR.org Well, I like NPR Politics a lot. And some stations who had a schedule to go down actually were allowed to go down. Its an inclusive process. Disclosure: This story was reported by NPR media correspondent David Folkenflik under guidance from NPR chief business editor Pallavi Gogoi. This is an edited transcript of the conversation among Lansing, Current Reporter Tyler Falk and Digital Editor Mike Janssen. And as the year unfolded, we began to develop our three-year strategic plan. We are different from other federal agencies, said Grant K. Turner, the agencys chief financial officer. So sad to me. He won praise for doing so and says he informed leaders of SAG-AFTRA on Tuesday about the impending job cuts. 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. 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. And be a good listener. It's not just what happened this week on the Hill, although that's important. 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. NPR Names Veteran Media Executive John Lansing As Its New CEO 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. NPR Names Veteran Media Executive John Lansing As Its New CEO Lansing says he does not yet know who within NPR will be affected, but said the job cuts would not fall evenly across the organization. But my goals also go to all of my direct reports. And what a breath of fresh air Whitney brings into the organization. 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. "We were doing everything we could against the tide and couldn't keep clipping our costs as the revenue kept slipping," Lansing says. I'm from Minneapolis, and my parents are buried about six blocks from where George Floyd was killed. Government support for the public radio system isn't in any immediate jeopardy. In a private meeting on Thursday President Biden informed Senate Democrats that he will not use his veto power to block a GOP-led effort to repeal D.C.'s new crime law. NPR Start Date: Mid October, 2020 NPR, the public radio and podcasting giant, has a new leader after years of growth and internal turmoil. 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. "This will be a major loss.". 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. 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. We'd like to revisit a story that first broke yesterday and . 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. I, and the management team, all of us, we determined that was going to be a priority for the year 2021. But we made a firm commitment, as you know, to freeze station dues and fees. Scripps Networks 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. CEO John Lansing cited the erosion of advertising dollars, particularly for NPR podcasts, and the tough financial outlook for the media industry more generally. 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. "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. Because when you're all at work, you're all at work, and you go home to your individual situations. So its an ongoing effort. 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. My top goal is to support the women of color at NPR so that they feel like they have more upward mobility.. Lansing describes himself as a citizen watching from the outside A private citizen? So its a constant commitment to communication, to training, to accountability. Last year, however, the U.S. Agency for Global Media came under fire when it emerged that it had bought Facebook ads targeting American citizens, in violation of laws meant to protect Americans from domestic propaganda. 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 result, I believe, is a war on truth. What was it like for you to watch that happen? "We're not seeing signs of a recovery in the advertising market," Lansing says in an interview. Pat O'Donnell, the executive director of the union's Mid-Atlantic unit, could not be reached for comment for this story. Others have waded into the podcast fray with a vengeance. Leading the organization through it all is CEO John Lansing, a longtime media executive who has been on the job since October 2019. NPR, the public radio giant that employs hundreds of journalists, is about to get a new chief executive. He is passionate about NPR's public service mission and the role of a free and independent media in a strong democracy. 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. 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. NPRs search for a new CEO is finally over! Current: Do you have any examples of how digital operations would be integrated into divisions throughout the organization? "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. CEO John Lansing says ad revenue for podcasting shriveled even as general economy seems on mend. John Lansing, CEO, photographed for NPR, 22 January 2020, in Washington DC. There were about 20, 25 different meetings in the course of about 45 days. That was revised as a result. It was hard for everyone. All rights reserved. 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. Current: What challenges have you faced in implementing your DEI plans? So mentally, how do you manage that? Lansing blamed a slowdown in advertising dollars. Unlike some predecessors, Lansing doesn't face a particularly fraught political landscape. What is the outlook for the rest of the fiscal year? Lansing: We arent in a position to answer that until we know for sure when the pandemic is going to subside. John Lansing - Quick Profile. 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. So those are the four pillars that rotate around the centerpiece, we call it the North Star, of our commitment to DEI. He took over a troubled organization beset by infighting and bureaucratic inefficiency. Fear drives their path. The ratings for our weekend magazine shows are actually slightly greater than they were a year ago pre-pandemic, so thats a bright spot.. NPR - Wikipedia For the year that ended last September, NPR reported $241 million in expenses. Current: When was the climate survey conducted? 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. Current. Current: How else might NPR assist stations in the coming year? At the U.S. Agency for Global Media, Lansing championed a free press even as leaders of many nations move against it. 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. Scripps Company, where he managed the company's portfolio of ten broadcast television stations across the country. It really stretched me to understand that flexibility is a good thing. You have stated that DEI is your top priority at NPR. I think leaders are accountable for walking the walk, for doing what they say they're going to do. David Westin speaks with top names in finance about the week's biggest issues on Wall Street. 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. 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. I think you have to be in front of your teams. 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. 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. Last summer, we definitely had a racial reckoning. Current: What are some of the highlights of that strategic plan? 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 . So we were pleased to see SAG-AFTRA join our efforts. First, we're a nonprofit. NPR undertook a strategic reorganization last fall, reinstating the position of a chief content officer overseeing both the newsroom and the programming division. And I still think we have a long way to go. 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. Mr. Mohn was pressed about his leadership in a tense NPR interview and later apologized to employees for not taking action sooner. NPR To Layoff About 10% Of Current Staff - Deadline Such distinctions between news and programming are tricky, however, as programming oversees podcasts, including those that perform journalistic functions, such as Code Switch, It's Been A Minute, Planet Money, and Throughline. 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. Share Your Design Ideas, New JerseysMurphy Defends $10 Billion Rainy Day Fund as States Economy Slows, What Led to Europes Deadliest Train Crash in a Decade, This Week in Crypto: Ukraine War, Marathon Digital, FTX. 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. 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%. Will there be another stimulus? He will now lead the nation's top audio producer and broadcaster. John Lansing will begin his term as President and CEO of NPR in October, 2019. So I think that it has caused me to be more tuned in to hearing and understanding our employees. Arcbazar.com. Lansing will begin his term at NPR in October and will succeed Jarl Mohn, who has been Chief Executive Officer and President since 2014. Since then,. 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. A new chief content officer will oversee NPR's news and programming divisions, which have frequently collaborated and almost as frequently clashed over resources and . When you first got to NPR, what did you think? John F. Lansing : NPR Last year, President Trump appointed Michael Pack as USAGMs CEO. 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 Ten Eyck Lansing Jr. (January 30, 1754 - vanished December 12, 1829), a Founding Father of the United States, was an attorney, jurist, and politician. Current: With broadcast listening declining during the pandemic, what is NPR doing to address and adjust to those trends? 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. The work of those pillars will be done through the lens of improving our efforts on DEI. 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. John Lansing , CEO of NPR NPR President John Lansing '09 is Bellarmine's 2021 commencement speaker, Honorary Degree recipient April 22, 2021 NPR P. 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. Live from. 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. 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. So if you have leaders talking about DEI as a priority, well, then, show me. 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. (Former long time member). Current: NPR has helped stations during the pandemic by delaying planned changes to the dues they pay.
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