There is a philosophical as well as bureaucratic tension at play: NPR at times alternates between considering itself one of the nation's leading news organizations that also offers music and humor, and a media company with news as one key part of its brand and mission. Mohn argued that NPR should stretch its ambitions on all platforms. Lansing's predecessor, Jarl Mohn, dispensed with the position in 2014, saying he felt the executive at the time was giving up too readily on NPR's promise in broadcasting amid changes in audience behavior. The move represents a back-to-the-future approach. Lansing announced a national search for the chief content officer, led by NPR Chief People Officer Selyn Hong with the search consulting firm Russell Reynolds Associates. NPR faces increased competition from commercial outletsĪccording to the most recent figures, dating back to spring, NPR has 24 million listeners of its broadcast shows, 8 million listeners of its podcasts and 16 million distinct visitors to its website every week. "We are also facing unprecedented competitive pressures from commercial media in all those spaces and the reality of our limited resources as a non-profit." "We are funneling our international, national and local journalism into all available platforms to reach younger and more diverse audiences where they are," Lansing wrote. It reflected the changing nature of the media business, and the need to fight for audiences. Lansing's remarks in an initial memo to staff about the new executive job released Friday morning ahead of Barnes' revelation suggested that the network's search for a new chief content officer was driven by strategic aims and financial pressures. (Some of them ultimately were placed under the guidance of both executives.)
(Grundmann did not respond to a note seeking comment.)Īccording to several colleagues, Barnes was surprised to learn how many podcasts stemming from clearly journalistic efforts were under Grundmann's control, such as Planet Money. Yet that has come under duress from competition from other public radio players and, more recently, for-profit outfits–leading to arms races for talent, audiences and revenue.īarnes and NPR's senior vice president for programming and audience development, Anya Grundmann, often disagreed on which podcasts or innovations to pursue. NPR's leadership in podcasting has made the popular audio form one of the network's growing sources of audiences and revenues in recent years. Both Lansing and Barnes declined to comment for this story. Material from The Associated Press was included in this report.Barnes wrote that she would stay until at least late November. The disruption caused alarm in the wake of last month's acts of sabotage that ruptured the two main natural gas pipelines running from Russia to Germany underneath the Baltic Sea, an incident that spurred NATO and the European Union to stress the need to better protect critical infrastructure. While the motive for the incident was unclear, it came a day before a state election in the German state of Lower Saxony where German chancellor Olaf Scholz's Social Democratic Party is on track to retain power and the Green party is seen as doubling its share of the vote.
"The investigation will have to yield that." "We can't say anything today either about the background to this act or the perpetrators," Wissing said. Transport Minister Volker Wissing said the affected cables are "essential for handling railway traffic safely." He said Germany's federal police were investigating the incident.įederal police said the crime scenes were in a Berlin suburb and in the western state of North Rhine-Westphalia, German news agency dpa reported. German Interior Minister Nancy Faeser said cables vital for the country's rail network were intentionally cut in two places, causing a sudden halt to all rail traffic, both passenger and cargo, in the northern part of the country. BERLIN - German authorities say a malicious and targeted act of sabotage caused a three-hour halt to all rail traffic in northern Germany on Saturday morning.
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