When that happened, it energized us to really double down on understanding where our weak spots were, what we needed to work on. 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. All Rights Reserved. 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. Why? But here, Lansing basically jumps over those disclaimers using the lame attribution of private citizen.. Lansing: You have to imagine a picture, if you will. administration regarding the now former managers of his former place of employment (USAGM) but claims the mantle of private citizen to do so. NPR stands stronger than it did at the outset of Mohns five-year term in 2014. And my top goal is to support, in particular, the women of color at NPR so that they feel like they have more upward mobility. It has won acclaim for its coverage of wars and disasters yet suffered its own crisis and tragedy in 2017 when NPRs David Gilkey and Zabihullah Tamanna were killed in southern Afghanistan on assignment. John Lansing, NPR's President and CEO, said the unique arrangement comes at an important time for NPR and for journalism. Unlike some predecessors, Lansing doesnt face a particularly fraught political landscape. Current: Did anything else stand out to you in that survey that you believe needed attention and needs attention? So its a constant commitment to communication, to training, to accountability. Sept. 6, 2019. Faces Of NPR showcases the people behind NPR--from the voices you hear every day on the radio to the ones who work outside of the recording studio. Lansing will start in his new position in mid-October. How do you think that the North Star, the strategic initiative, is going? 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. The only route to a successful engagement on this issue is to deal with it, to talk about it, and to take action. Prior to joining USAGM, he served for two years as the President and CEO of the Cable & Telecommunications Association for Marketing (CTAM), an organization that facilitates collaborative marketing initiatives for its members. Under standard procedures for reporting on NPR matters, NPRs corporate and news executives were not allowed to review what they reported until it was posted. NPR maintains 17 national bureaus and 17 bureaus abroad. 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. Last year brought a host of challenges to NPR: a multimillion-dollar deficit, calls for changes in its workplace culture and a hit to broadcast listening. 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. I think you have to be transparent and be able to explain what you're doing, even if it's unpopular. Current: How have your priorities for NPR changed since you became CEO? Podtrac, which measures the audiences of podcast publishers, has consistently placed NPR at the top of its monthly rankings. But now we're seeing authoritarian regimes expanding around the globe, with media repression in places like Turkey and Venezuela, Cambodia and Vietnam.". Our goal of developing our audience as a younger and more diverse audience requires that we invest in marketing, we invest in content, and we partner with platforms where those audiences can be found rather than expecting younger and more diverse audiences to come to our platforms, necessarily. John Lansing becomes CEO of NPR NPR, the public radio giant that employs hundreds of journalists, is about to get a new chief executive. Live from New York and London, analyzing the major market moving stories across the day in Europe, hear from the biggest newsmakers and showcase the unrivaled expertise of Bloomberg News. Weve had a couple of significant anonymous gifts that have helped shore up our forecast for the coming fiscal year. Its new president and chief executive is John Lansing, a former cable . We established management commitments to the women of color so that we address specifically their concerns. For two years, he served as the president and CEO of a cable trade group called the Cable and Telecommunications Association for Marketing. Lansing started his news industry career at age 17 as a studio technician and cameraman at WPSD TV, Paducah, KY, where he was promoted to news photographer after two years. While serving as chief operating officer, she took on a greater role during two of Mohn's medical leaves and in the aftermath of the sexual harassment scandal. NPR's rigorous reporting and unsurpassed storytelling connect with millions of Americans everydayon the air, online, and in person. And its tied to the same variables you would know yourselves, which is, how fast can the vaccines be deployed? Vegas PBS General Manager, Tom Axtell, announces his retirement. What steps does NPR still need to take in this area? A later report commissioned by the NPR board found that questions had been raised about Oreskes' behavior even before his hiring and that concerns were raised throughout his tenure; the repeated and formal warnings by top executives (including Mohn) to Oreskes to stop the unwanted attention he paid to female colleagues proved ineffective. 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. And I still think we have a long way to go. But it was not from a standing start. And I would do a board-level review for the donor or donors as to where the business was, the value of the work we were doing, the things we were adding in terms of covering the pandemic. What advice would you give to young journalists of color when navigating these white spaces, but attempting to make a change? September 5, 2019; Washington, D.C. The NPR Board of Directors announced today that it selected John Lansing to become its next President and Chief Executive Officer. 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. Live from. John F. Lansing joined USAGM as CEO and Director in September 2015. Family Status: Married with 4 Children (Jean Rausch Lansing) 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. NPR takes only a few million dollars a year from federal sources for its programs. Lansing Last year brought a host of challenges to NPR: a multimillion-dollar deficit, calls for changes in its workplace culture and a hit to broadcast listening. It's interesting. 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. Lansing also elevated a former U.S. State Department staffer to be chief strategy officer who recently pleaded guilty to having defrauded the U.S. Agency for Global Media of more than $40,000 in government money in 2018, according to federal prosecutors. Then I moved on to manage TV stations and cable networks. Put that pizza box in the trash. I think there are interesting trends to follow and try to understand. So sad to lose an American institution to propaganda. 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. He joined NPR after serving as CEO of the U.S. Agency for Global Media. You go to college and all the sudden you're like 'wait a minute, I've got to do something when this is over.' I am still morning the loss of an objective NPR. 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. The varied broadcasters also offered jazz and other music to appeal to people under communist regimes using a soft form of diplomacy. There was one the year before I was here, then this was the follow-up. John Lansing, CEO, photographed for NPR, 22 January 2020, in Washington DC. I'm from Minneapolis, and my parents are buried about six blocks from where George Floyd was killed. So I would tell my younger self to be confident, calm down, it's all gonna work out. The work theyve done during the pandemic has been nothing short of miraculous in many cases, particularly given the summer of racial reckoning, the most unusual presidential election in memory and everything thats gone on since. I think you have to be in front of your teams. Saul Loeb/AFP via Getty Images NPR's chief executive announced the. NPR Facebook Post with Comments. 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. Lansing will start in his new position in mid-October. We did a climate survey of our employees, and we learned about a particular weak spot for us with women of color at NPR who didn't feel it was a place to grow their career, a place to be their whole selves, a place where they are seen and respected. At the U.S. Agency for Global Media, Lansing championed a free press even as leaders of many nations move against it. Current (https://current.org/2021/02/ceo-john-lansing-discusses-nprs-diversity-efforts-budget-deficit-and-growing-podcast-competition/). How does the economy react to all of that? Lansing, who is 62, is currently . Age: 62, Born on July 31, 1957, in Minneapolis MICHEL MARTIN, HOST: We'd like to revisit a story. 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. At the center of a graphic is our commitment to DEI, and all of our work in that circle is surrounded by four pillars. We can help you keep up. It was hard for everyone. A review by the House Foreign Affairs Committee faulted the agency for insufficient oversight but noted that an internal task force was already having an impact. In an interview, Mr. Lansing called the ads a rogue incident and said it had been corrected. Current: NPR and a group of stations started a pilot project around collaborative fundraising in 2019. From 2015 to 2019, Lansing served as the CEO of the U.S. Agency for Global Media (USAGM), the independent federal agency whose programming reaches an average weekly audience of 345 million people in 62 languages. 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.. America needs public radio more than ever. NPRs president of operations, Loren Mayor, was the leading internal candidate for the chief executive position. CEO John Lansing cited the erosion. They lost their objectivity and are now just pushing leftist ideology. NPR draws more than 28 million listeners each week and 40 million unique monthly visitors to its website both represent a rise of several million over those five years. At a young age, my biggest goal at the time was to someday be a news director for a local TV station. Its pretty clear to me that the ratings decline in radio is driven by commuting patterns. Were working with them to do joint investigative reporting. I think we're moving forward. The other is the fight for donors. 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. We collected a lot of data and we have a lot of good follow-up opportunities, and Ill continue to offer myself up as a direct resource in that pilot project. And our number one goal is to improve our audience diversity. John Lansing, CEO, photographed for NPR, 22 January 2020, in Washington DC. John F Lansing, National Public Radio Inc: Profile and Biography - Bloomberg Markets Live Now Bloomberg TV+ Bloomberg Daybreak Middle East Bloomberg Daybreak Middle East. And I was very proud of the progress we were making. Current. Current: Is there a timeline for that process? He defined NPRs mission as serving the public with information and an excellence and quality about it that makes it must see on a variety of platforms.. NPR stands stronger than it did at the outset of Mohn's five-year term in 2014. Did you know that one day you would become a CEO? "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. Current: NPRs budget also took a hit because of the pandemic. Current: You came to NPR after serving as CEO of the U.S. Agency for Global Media. Yet Lansing also takes over an institution riven by a scandal that hit its top reaches, with a chief news executive toppled over #MeToo complaints of inappropriate conduct toward female subordinates and colleagues. How has that effort been progressing? Weve seen a gradual comeback. 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. Obviously, this job that you have as a CEO of NPR is a really huge responsibility. Copyright 2019 NPR. 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. So I think thats being offset by some listening through smart speakers and even online, and thats helping to offset some of the reduction in listening within vehicles. 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. It really stretched me to understand that flexibility is a good thing. We established the top priority [a.k.a. "I have been an avid fan of NPR for many years. That said, Mohn set higher annual expectations for the network in fund-raising and agreed to be co-chairman of its 50th anniversary capital campaign. Lansing's tenure at the agency has not been without controversy. And as the year unfolded, we began to develop our three-year strategic plan. Unlike some predecessors, Lansing doesn't face a particularly fraught political landscape. Were still looking at a deficit, but were hopeful that by the time we get into March, well have a pretty clear-eyed view of how the year is going to end up. And now in our budgeting were shifting some revenue for Michael to use that to promote and support our podcasts as they compete, as you note, with other large commercial businesses. He held off a push by House Republicans to spin off Voice of America into a nongovernmental broadcaster. In May 2020, four NPR female hosts of color Garcia-Navarro, King, All Things Considered host Ailsa Chang and Weekend All Things Considered host Michel Martin sent a letter to Lansing . Mohn fired head of news Michael Oreskes on Halloween 2017. NPR strives to create a more informed publicone challenged and invigorated by a deeper understanding and appreciation of events, ideas, and cultures. So we were pleased to see SAG-AFTRA join our efforts. Lansings tenure at the agency has not been without controversy. hide caption. NPR draws more than 28 million listeners each week and 40 million unique monthly visitors to its website both represent a rise of several million over those five years. John Lansing - Quick Profile. 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. To see more, visit https://www.npr.org. Michael was a senior marketing executive at Scripps for Food Network and HGTV and really brings a lot of media marketing expertise. And theyre all expected to articulate a DEI goal thats measurable, actionable, and that they can be held accountable for and will be. You have shows like All Things Considered and Morning Edition, which will continue to be broadcasting tent poles, Mr. Lansing said. In recent remarks online, Johnson, who is Black, focused on a more competitive landscape for NPR journalists, including people of color. Lansing: About 11 months ago, in February, a pilot group of 15 stations got together and put together an 18-month plan to begin the process. John Lansing testifying before a House Appropriations subcommittee in July. Mike Morgan/Mike Morgan Scripps Company, where he managed the company's portfolio of ten broadcast television stations across the country. Mohn will continue on as President Emeritus & Co-Chair of the 50th Anniversary Campaign. So if you have leaders talking about DEI as a priority, well, then, show me. NPR is funded by the CPB/PBS which are funded in part by the U.S. government. Were consulting with digital media, were consulting with the division heads, and were doing it as an all-hands project so that we get it right. June 1, 20203:52 PM ET. I can't speak for other people, CEOs. Bellarmine alumnus and former trustee John Lansing, a veteran cable television and government broadcast executive, is the new CEO of NPR. Considering the demise of local newspapers around the country and the growth of our member stations newsrooms around the country, were really working hard to support their local journalism, because its so important to us. 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. John Lansing, a media executive with government broadcast and cable television experience, has been named by NPR's board to succeed its current chief, Jarl Mohn who announced the plan to step down after his 5-Year term ended. 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 broadcasters like Voice of America and Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty. Well, I like NPR Politics a lot. He soon made DEI the top priority at NPR. Its not a sidebar. 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. It puts a filter on that helps us explain even unpopular decisions, how they link to our mission. But now were seeing authoritarian regimes expanding around the globe, with media repression in places like Turkey and Venezuela, Cambodia and Vietnam.. (Former long time member). 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 . While serving as chief operating officer, she took on a greater role during two of Mohns medical leaves and in the aftermath of the sexual harassment scandal. So at the end of the day, its a commitment, but this also has to be accountability. How cool is it to be at NPR? Current: When was the climate survey conducted? 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. And weve seen some significant success with that. In 2017, Michael Oreskes, NPRs senior vice president for news, left after two women accused him of unwanted physical advances in the 1990s, when he was the Washington bureau chief of The New York Times. 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? That's something that perceptive journalists should be able to pick up pretty quickly. And the New York Times has won praise and new fans through its weekday podcast The Daily, with in-depth interviews of reporters and newsmakers. 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