NPR's chief executive announced the network would lay off roughly 10% of its . The first pillar is to expand the power of the national-local partnership into the on-demand future. NPR Press Release. John Lansing, a media executive with government broadcast and cable television experience, has been named by NPRs board to succeed its current chief, Jarl Mohn who announced the plan to step down after his 5-Year term ended. That's the way I think about leadership here. LANSING, John, Jr., (Uncle of Gerrit Yates Lansing), a Delegate from New York; born in Albany, N.Y., January 30, 1754; studied law in Albany and in New York City; was admitted to the bar in 1775; secretary to General Schuyler 1776 and 1777; engaged in the practice of law in Albany in 1778; member of the State assembly 1781-1784, 1786, and 1789, and served as speaker in 1786 and 1789; Member of . 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. We need help now. So we began an intensive set of Zoom meetings that I attended, each one with a member station and a qualified potential donor. 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 also seen very positive upticks in development. 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. NPR's total workforce has grown by about 50 percent since before that crisis. Were working with them to create regional newsrooms in Texas and California and the Midwest and in the Gulf. I think that's where we all wind up. Selected by the NPR board of directors, Lansing will start in October, succeeding outgoing head Jarl Mohn, 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. I had no idea what was out there. It is our work. How cool is it to be at NPR? The second pillar is to transform our workplace culture. We established management commitments to the women of color so that we address specifically their concerns. 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. Mohn fired head of news Michael Oreskes on Halloween 2017. When will that freeze be lifted? 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. He is. Lansing also spent almost 20 years working at Scripps, including eight years as President of Scripps Networks. "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. Family Status: Married with 4 Children (Jean Rausch Lansing) (Former long time member). Podtrac, which measures the audiences of podcast publishers, has consistently placed NPR at the top of its monthly rankings. "A really important strategic vector that we'll be talking about more within the company going forward is maximizing the value of the content wherever it can live and wherever the audience demands it," NPR Chief Operating Officer Will Lee says in an interview. NPR headquarters in Washington, D.C. Fear drives their path. "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.". NPR chief news executive Nancy Barnes to depart as network reshapes top After becoming part of Warner Bros. As a subscriber, you have 10 gift articles to give each month. Talk about a force of nature. 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. There are over 1000 NPR Member Station signals broadcasting across the United States Scripps Networks September 5, 2019; Washington, D.C. - The NPR Board of Directors announced today that it. 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. 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. CEO John Lansing discusses NPRs diversity efforts, budget deficit and growing podcast competition. All of those underlying effects generally lead to whatever effects were going to have in corporate sponsorship. 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. NPR hosts' departures fuel questions over race. The full story is 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. There were about 20, 25 different meetings in the course of about 45 days. He served for four years as the SVP, Television for the E.W. For several years, it eliminated salary increases and suspended retirement contributions. 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. US Media Propaganda. Drawing "Liberals" and "Leftists" into the CIA's NPR's programming division, which produces its industry-leading podcasts, has more than doubled since 2019. It's not an extracurricular activity; it's fundamental to our business. NPR Names Veteran Media Executive John Lansing As Its New CEO 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. How does the economy react to all of that? John Lansing, the chief executive officer and director of the U.S. Agency for Global Media, will become NPR's CEO in mid-October. National Public Radio (NPR) CEO John Lansing announced in a Wednesday memo that the network will lay off 10 percent of its staff and freeze vacant positions. Current: Why are NPR and its partners looking to sell the Pocket Casts podcast app? 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. At the U.S. Agency for Global Media known until last year as the Broadcasting Board of Governors he presided over 53 percent growth in the weekly audience for the agencys networks over the last three years, to 345 million. At the U.S. Agency for Global Media, Lansing championed a free press even as leaders of many nations move against it. Current: NPR and a group of stations started a pilot project around collaborative fundraising in 2019. 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. 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. Way back when, I was a news cameraman. Applicants to this years fellowship see its cancellation as a setback for journalists of color who want to work in public radio. I had been gone for the better part of a year or so. John F Lansing, National Public Radio Inc: Profile and Biography hide caption. He soon made DEI the top priority at NPR. That survey happened in the fall of 2020. Mr. Lansing, who began his career as a teenage cameraman at a television station in Kentucky, spent two decades at Scripps Networks. Will there be another stimulus? Current: How much were those anonymous gifts? NPR Names Veteran Media Executive John Lansing As Its New CEO NPR Facebook Post with Comments. ", Lansing, formerly a top television executive for the E.W. Scripps Co., says whenever an economic slowdown appears imminent, marketing budgets get slashed. 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. John Lansing will begin his term as President and CEO of NPR in October, 2019. Connecting decision makers to a dynamic network of information, people and ideas, Bloomberg quickly and accurately delivers business and financial information, news and insight around the world. Leading the organization through it all is CEO John Lansing, a longtime media executive who has been on the job since October 2019. "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. But my goals also go to all of my direct reports. Prior to that, Lansing was VP and GM of Scripps ABC affiliates. 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. Were working with member stations on topic teams for, say, political reporting or criminal justice reporting across the system. 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. Fearing a tepid economy, Lansing and his corporate team projected that revenue would stay flat for the fiscal year that began October 1. 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. Lansing, who is 62, is currently the chief executive of the government agency that oversees Voice of America, Radio and Television Mart and Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty, among others. "In terms of mission, understanding of media, the depth of experience, his strategic leadership, his commitment to people and culture, I would say those were really the key things that we were looking for," said Goli Sheikholeslami, vice chairwoman of the NPR board of directors and CEO of Chicago Public Media. Lansing says even that proved overly optimistic. In an email to the staff on Friday, John Lansing, who joined the nonprofit as chief executive in September, projected that NPR would fall $12 million to $15 million short of the amount it had . U.S. Agency for Global Media And some stations who had a schedule to go down actually were allowed to go down. Its my expectation that that will expand throughout the organization, so that everybody understands its everybodys job, and the accountability is going to be something that we measure and transparently report back out. This is essentially the DEI work writ large, but also our culture of respect, safety, upward mobility, training and making NPR a world-class organization for which to work. The newsroom currently stands at just shy of 490 people, while programming has shot up to 230. Mohn led NPR through five consecutive years of audience growth and budget surplus. In a large part, the digital teams and the divisions will work together to reach a final model. It was a reckoning for all of us together collectively at NPR. 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: Thats a great question. During the depths of the Covid-19 pandemic, NPR was at risk of laying off staff when sponsors canceled their spots on the network, said John Lansing, NPR's chief executive. 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 only route to a successful engagement on this issue is to deal with it, to talk about it, and to take action. "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. 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. 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. 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 Names John Lansing President And CEO : NPR - NPR.org Being a changemaker is awesome, but can have its own challenges as you're just trying to improve your career. NPR takes only a few million dollars a year from federal sources for its programs. "Management is about committing to strategy, making tough decisions.". 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. Government support for the public radio system isn't in any immediate jeopardy. The ratings for our weekend magazine shows are actually slightly greater than they were a year ago pre-pandemic, so thats a bright spot.. He took over a troubled organization beset by infighting and bureaucratic inefficiency. NPR Start Date: Mid October, 2020 We discovered in our most recent climate survey that that was an area that we needed to put more effort into. NPR's search for a new CEO is finally over! When asked about his priorities, Lansing invoked what he has called the network's "North Star'' since his arrival in the fall of 2019: a push to ensure the network has a bigger and broader audience base, rooted in younger and more diverse listeners, readers and consumers. I'm just passionate about how good leadership can lead to good outcomes, and that led me here. "We're not seeing signs of a recovery in the advertising market," Lansing says in an interview. Scripps Company, where he managed the company's portfolio of ten broadcast television stations across the country. 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 ratings for our weekend magazine shows are actually slightly greater than they were a year ago pre-pandemic, so thats a bright spot. . NPR CEO Defends Journalist After Pompeo Lashes Out Over Ukraine "And we finally got to the point where there was nothing really that we could cut big enough to fill a hole like that.". So at the end of the day, its a commitment, but this also has to be accountability. Arcbazar.com. If it's not being solved from the top down, it shouldn't be a burden for people just trying to build their career. Were working with them to do joint investigative reporting. We have many miles to go. He joined NPR after serving as CEO of the U.S. Agency for Global Media. In an interview, Lansing said he wants to build on NPR's successes in broadcast news and entertainment to become even more dominant in podcasting and more prevalent in streaming. 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. Let's say, I was walking out of high school into college, I had no idea what I was going to do. Not exactly. We're funded by your subscriptions, your donations, advertising, and a generous grant from the Wyncote Foundation. At Colorado Public Radio, I think there was a $300,000 donation that came out of that. John F. Lansing : NPR NPR Names Juana Summers as Co-Host of 'All Things Considered' He won praise for doing so and says he informed leaders of SAG-AFTRA on Tuesday about the impending job cuts. He served on the Bellarmine University Board of Trustees from 2010-2016 and was vice-chair 2014-2016. (On NPR's radio side, advertising takes the form of underwriting, as corporate sponsors are not permitted to call for listeners to purchase goods or services.). "The combination of his health issues plus the situation with Mike Oreskes did derail his plans.". Current: NPR has helped stations during the pandemic by delaying planned changes to the dues they pay. 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. What advice would you give to young journalists of color when navigating these white spaces, but attempting to make a change? NPR's rigorous reporting and unsurpassed storytelling connect with millions of Americans everydayon the air, online, and in person. Current. First, we're a nonprofit. "The result, I believe, is a war on truth. The staffing cut, which will cost at least 100 people their jobs, comes in response to the "erosion" of advertising revenue, particularly for the network's podcasts, NPR reported. If you had to create a podcast, what would it be about? So Im pleased to see that that short era is over. 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. In late November, the network announced $20 million in cuts, including a near-freeze on hiring, elimination of most travel, and suspension of internships. Current: How have your priorities for NPR changed since you became CEO? Lansing: Lets go back in time. 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. hide caption. So we were pleased to see SAG-AFTRA join our efforts. NPR maintains 17 national bureaus and 17 bureaus abroad. 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. And weve seen that really help them grow. I joined in October of '19. 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. 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. The roots of the VOA involved providing truthful reports to people under Nazi and Axis power rule during World War II. NPR Laying Off 10 Percent of Its Workforce - townhall.com But thats our commitment. document.getElementById( "ak_js_1" ).setAttribute( "value", ( new Date() ).getTime() ); Public Media Now was created to be a centralized source of information and resources to help professional within Public Media be more successful. Under his leadership NPR has been reaching new audiences as the country's top podcast publisher and through platforms like smart-speakers and connected cars. Last fall, when announcing the earlier cuts, Lansing said the network would have to make tough choices - and to "do less with less." And the pandemic hit six months later in March of '20. And theyre all expected to articulate a DEI goal thats measurable, actionable, and that they can be held accountable for and will be. Built with the Largo WordPress Theme from the Institute for Nonprofit News. At a young age, my biggest goal at the time was to someday be a news director for a local TV station. Current: When was the climate survey conducted? ", "It's always difficult in these situations, and I don't want to minimize the impact that it will have on our colleagues and in some cases, you know, our ability to do what we do," Lee says. 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? Did you plan for this or did it kind of just happen? So we took that very, very seriously. Lansing blamed a slowdown in advertising dollars. During 2021, we worked on that with Keith and with Diversity and Inclusion Manager Whitney Maddox. Scripps Company, Held senior management positions at Scripps-owned affiliates, including WEWS TV in Cleveland, Ohio and WXYZ TV in Detroit, Michigan, Early in his career Award-winning Photojournalist and Field Producer, Assignment Manager, Managing Editor, and News Director at several television stations. It is our work our North Star and our work are the same thing. For two years, he served as the president and CEO of a cable trade group called the Cable and Telecommunications Association for Marketing. John Lansing will begin his term as President and CEO of NPR in October, 2019. It is intended to align the strategy of its often fractious member stations with one another and NPR itself and to allow NPR, for the first time, to raise money digitally from its audience in concert with those stations. Your email address will not be published. Notify me of follow-up comments by email. Lansing has won plaudits from journalists for his rousing defense of a free press even while serving in the Trump administration, which has been notably hostile to traditional notions of the role of journalism in civic life. hide caption. Well, what we're doing right now, I think communication. And weve seen some significant success with that. So I think that it has caused me to be more tuned in to hearing and understanding our employees. "Nothing is nailed down yet except the principles and what we know we have to reach.". 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'm from Minneapolis, and my parents are buried about six blocks from where George Floyd was killed. I, and the management team, all of us, we determined that was going to be a priority for the year 2021.
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