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NPR chief says network positioned for growth after struggles
2015-06-20 19:04:34| Telecom - Topix.net
After years of leadership changes and funding deficits, NPR's new president and CEO says the public radio network has turned a corner and is positioning itself to grow its already sizable audience, along with its journalistic content and funding from donors. Jarl Mohn, a longtime radio and television executive who created E! Entertainment Television, helped launch MTV and VH1 and formed his own venture capital firm, has led NPR for nearly a year.
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NPR chief says network positioned for growth after struggles
2015-06-11 12:37:16| Telecom - Topix.net
After years of leadership changes and funding deficits, NPR's new president and CEO says the public radio network has turned a corner and is positioning itself to grow its already sizable audience, along with its journalistic content and funding from donors. Jarl Mohn, a longtime radio and television executive who created E! Entertainment Television, helped launch MTV and VH1 and formed his own venture capital firm, has led NPR for nearly a year.
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NPR chief says network positioned for growth after struggles
2015-06-11 12:37:15| Telecom - Topix.net
After years of leadership changes and funding deficits, NPR's new president and CEO says the public radio network has turned a corner and is positioning itself to grow its already sizable audience and funding. Jarl Mohn, a longtime radio and television executive who created E! Entertainment Television, helped launch MTV and VH1 and formed his own venture capital firm, is now nearing the end of his first year leading NPR.
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NPR VP Nuzim Exiting To Join Audible
2015-05-17 11:11:55| IT Services - Topix.net
Eric Nuzum has been NPR's VP for programming since January 2011, and in an executive role with the company since August 2004. Nuzum tells Current.org that he is exiting NPR to join Amazon.com subsidiary Audible.com, which specializes in audio books and spoken-word content.
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NPR ombudsman equivocates equivalence story on climate-change fight
2015-03-17 20:31:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Washington Post: Last week, the Erik Wemple Blog criticized an NPR story that noted how attacks on climate-change deniers are allegedly starting to resemble previous attacks on scientists from the other side of the debate. Now NPR ombudsman Elizabeth Jensen has taken a look. Her verdict on this blogs contentions? Eh. To recap the issues: In this story, NPR reporter Geoff Brumfiel observed some degree of symmetry in the attacks of the climate-change ruckus after a Freedom of Information Act request turned...
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