NPR cuts 10 % of staff, names Haaga acting CEO

[silvershadow]

Source: USA Today

NPR on Friday said it plans to cut 10% of tits staff through voluntary buyouts and announced it has named board member Paul G. Haaga as acting CEO..

Haaga, 64, will replace Gary Knell, who announced last month his plans to step down to become CEO of the National Geographic Society. Haaga will assume the new role on Sept. 30.

Haaga has been on the board of the media organization since 2011, most recently as its vice chair and chair of the finance committee.

NPR said the buyout plan, which will be applied "broadly across the organization," was needed to eliminate a deficit and lower expenses. NPR has about 840 employees.

Read more: http://www.usatoday.com/story/money/business/2013/09/13/npr-acting-ceo/2810473/

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[Skittles]

1. surely they will correct "tits staff"

[valerief]

8. I guess only women will be cut. nt

[Jackpine Radical]

12. I was wondering why a RADIO network needed a tits staff.

Sounds more like Fox News.

[OrwellwasRight]

15. LMAO!

Good one.

[Agschmid]

17. Ummm oh my gosh....

[jsr]

23. Typo is still there.

[pauliedangerously]

25. They haven't changed it yet...ntib

[Botany]

2. What a bunch of boobs

"NPR on Friday said it plans to cut 10% of tits staff ..... "

[BumRushDaShow]

3. As illustrated here and across the media, copy editors/proof readers are always first to go. nt

[zeemike]

4. And the new CEO is a Wall Streeter.

That should insure NPR does not get out of line.

[Botany]

5. NPR is a shell of what it used to be.

Anybody who can't see the republican and corporate influence over it now is blind.

[PassingFair]

6. I listen to MUSIC now...

In the Detroit area, there is nothing left.
We have no progressive radio, and, as you point out,
NPR is UNlistenable.

[LovingA2andMI]

19. We have Alternative Media Political Radio

In the Michigan area but if you're looking for "we always agree with President Obama radio, even when he's wrong" you might not want to listen to our podcast.

[mopinko]

11. my local station is still great- wbez

the network, tho, is fingernails on a chalk board with all their tilted language.

[Kolesar]

21. The chair of NPR runs Cleveland's very excellent station--WCPN

I cannot read WBEZ without hearing the charming diction of Ira Glass.
"This week on This American Life...pause...Use Only as Directed...

[mopinko]

24. it's a great show.

too bad we haven't syndicated more show. just the amusing ones. not the news ones.
worldview, the noon news show is a most excellent world news show and has been for many, many years.

[valerief]

9. It'll get more Foxified than it already is. nt

[Wilms]

7. Pacifica Radio

http://pacificanetwork.org/

[OrwellwasRight]

16. Unfortunately,

Pacifica is also hitting hard times. They laid off a bunch of staff too recently.


http://blogs.villagevoice.com/runninscared/2013/08/wbai_pacifica_r.php

[adirondacker]

10. 840 employees? You'd think our government, the richest on the planet, could support that in it's

entirety without the "help" of corporate donors. National PUBLIC WTF?

[Hissyspit]

13. They can.

This is just continuation of the right-wing plan to destroy NPR.

[adirondacker]

14. Yes, I'm afraid you're correct. Public disinformation seems to be on a roll these days.

[Kablooie]

18. A little more on Haaga

Paul Haaga Jr., who is a member of NPR's board and former chairman of the Los Angeles based investment firm Capital Research and Management Co., will replace Gary Nell as interim CEO. Nell is leaving his role at NPR to be CEO of National Geographic, KPCC (89.3) reported.

Haaga led funding for a recent gallery project at Descanso Gardens, donating a $2.1 million gift with his wife Heather Sturt Haaga to help build the Sturt Haaga Gallery.

The registered Republican is active in philanthropy in Southern California, working as a Huntington Library trustee and president of the Los Angeles County Museum of National History's board of trustees.

http://www.lacanadaonline.com/news/tsn-vsl-national-public-radio-names-la-canada-resident-ceo-announces-staff-cuts-20130913,0,3472910.story

[Kolesar]

22. Good thing he is temporary...eom

[factsarenotfair]

26. When I see the words "philanthropy" and "Republican" in the same sentence,

it makes me want to scream and then weep.

[gopiscrap]

20. Wouldn't more public funding help

[Orsino]

28. Of course it would.

That's precisely why public funding has been cut.

[Pterodactyl]

27. Man, this economy sucks.