Audie Cornish leaving NPR

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:With the rise of podcasting, there are also numerous other places to do good audio work, many of which can offer much bigger salaries than public radio. That hasn't always been the case.

This. As an NPR alum this trend has been going on since the rise of Slate podcasts. NPR was the final destination for many years, and now there is competition.

That combined with some management and culture problems means this is also an exodus of talented staff of color, also in even more demand from the lily white podcast companies.

I was a Morning Edition listener for years until I switched to morning news podcasts. I appreciate being able to listen to the entire thing, when convenient

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I would love it if NPR brought in some centrist or centrist-right talent to balance the programming.

I've been an NPR fan for 20+ years, but it has been way, way too leftist in recent years. I know this can just be me, right? It has become the radio version of MSNBC.

I realize this will never happen, but I may eventually just tune out entirely.

Disagree. It's exactly what it's been my whole life. As close to neutral as we have in this country.


In terms of inside scuttlebutt...I have none. But...someone I talk to a lot who works at NPR and who fits into some of the categories discussed has done some general eye rolling to me lately about office culture there. This is someone in management who's been there a long time. It does seem like morale is, shall we say, not high.

This show has 1 hour a day on WAMU 4 days a week, https://wamu.org/show/the-takeaway Can you read those show descriptions and say they sounds anything other than far left? Is there anything similarly far right that balances it? The morning and evening drives are more neutral, but NPR as a whole is not.

Have you actually listened to The Takeaway? It's hardly far left. More like-middle aged mom issues from a Black lady's perspective. I'm not Black, but I enjoy this show.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I would love it if NPR brought in some centrist or centrist-right talent to balance the programming.

I've been an NPR fan for 20+ years, but it has been way, way too leftist in recent years. I know this can just be me, right? It has become the radio version of MSNBC.

I realize this will never happen, but I may eventually just tune out entirely.

What?! Do you mean that Michael Barbaro (and his excessive use of dramatic pauses) isn’t conservative enough for you?!

/s

You're thinking of The Daily, which is an NY Times podcast and has zero to do with NPR?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I would love it if NPR brought in some centrist or centrist-right talent to balance the programming.

I've been an NPR fan for 20+ years, but it has been way, way too leftist in recent years. I know this can just be me, right? It has become the radio version of MSNBC.

I realize this will never happen, but I may eventually just tune out entirely.

As a European listener, it doesn't seem leftist as much as non-questioning. The US is very much a right-of-center country, and your Democrats aren't progressive or leftist whatsoever! They replace actual social policy-making with "woke" concepts, which is useless lip service to social ideals. So for me, coming from interviews on certain TV and radio channels of various European countries, and expecting interviewers to ask the hard questions, I tune into NPR, and it's just a gentle stream of centrist, or left-of-center warbling. Warbling being the operative word. There is no fight. NPR could broaden its listener base if it could actually make their interviewees squirm a little more, and come at them from all sides of the political spectrum.

This is OP - and I agree ^. Whenever I listen to the BBC it's so clear that those interviews are more - this isn't quite the right word - combative. The interviewers challenge the subjects a lot more than American interviewers do. It would be interesting to see if the BBC model could ever work here - I don't know. Seems like our hosts let sources speak, and listeners to make of it what they will, a lot more.

I firmly agree, too, that NPR is far from a "leftist" organization. Arguably the podcasts are more so, but the on-air shows? No way.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I would love it if NPR brought in some centrist or centrist-right talent to balance the programming.

I've been an NPR fan for 20+ years, but it has been way, way too leftist in recent years. I know this can just be me, right? It has become the radio version of MSNBC.

I realize this will never happen, but I may eventually just tune out entirely.

What?! Do you mean that Michael Barbaro (and his excessive use of dramatic pauses) isn’t conservative enough for you?!

/s

You're thinking of The Daily, which is an NY Times podcast and has zero to do with NPR?

NP, the NPR station I listen to has this on every day at 6:30.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I would love it if NPR brought in some centrist or centrist-right talent to balance the programming.

I've been an NPR fan for 20+ years, but it has been way, way too leftist in recent years. I know this can just be me, right? It has become the radio version of MSNBC.

I realize this will never happen, but I may eventually just tune out entirely.

What?! Do you mean that Michael Barbaro (and his excessive use of dramatic pauses) isn’t conservative enough for you?!

/s

You're thinking of The Daily, which is an NY Times podcast and has zero to do with NPR?

NP, the NPR station I listen to has this on every day at 6:30.

I see. Well, it's an NY Times podcast.

[Anonymous]

(I miss hearing her on the radio, too)

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I would love it if NPR brought in some centrist or centrist-right talent to balance the programming.

I've been an NPR fan for 20+ years, but it has been way, way too leftist in recent years. I know this can just be me, right? It has become the radio version of MSNBC.

I realize this will never happen, but I may eventually just tune out entirely.

Maybe they can find another Jenn White. She is mostly balanced compared to that nitwit, Joshua Johnson

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Not sure what's going on, but it sounds like she's been at NPR for over 20 years. Maybe she needs a new challenge? Or maybe it's NPR? Not sure I understand Ari Shapiro's "it's a crisis" comment when AC was there for so many years. Seems like she would want to explore something new, but I could be wrong.

I am OP - and I don't think it's normal for someone in her sort of position to make an abrupt announcement on Twitter that she's leaving in a week. That sounds like an "I don't want to deal with this sh*t anymore" sort of move. Someone who's been there as long as she has been would usually - I think - get, like, a month's worth of goodbyes, retrospectives, best ofs, all that. This sounds like a "see ya when I see ya" sort of move - which must have been prompted by something, I think.

She’s cis-gender, old, and has a nuclear family.

Time to make space for someone more progressive.

Those with gender dysphoria, young, and with dysfunctional families make up a small portion of the population. They are overly-represented at NPR.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I would love it if NPR brought in some centrist or centrist-right talent to balance the programming.

I've been an NPR fan for 20+ years, but it has been way, way too leftist in recent years. I know this can just be me, right? It has become the radio version of MSNBC.

I realize this will never happen, but I may eventually just tune out entirely.

What?! Do you mean that Michael Barbaro (and his excessive use of dramatic pauses) isn’t conservative enough for you?!

/s

You're thinking of The Daily, which is an NY Times podcast and has zero to do with NPR?

NP, the NPR station I listen to has this on every day at 6:30.

I see. Well, it's an NY Times podcast.

WAMU carries it, but it's produced by the NY Times. Each public radio station assembles its own programming lineup. 1A with Jen White is produced by WAMU and carried by other stations. The Takeaway is carried by WAMU, but produced by WNYC. Most listeners don't differentiate.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Super toxic workplace ripe with NDAs and dirty laundry. Just look at Executive and leadership turnover. Look at female minority talent turn over.

Hmmm, I wonder if minority women are grossly underpaid compared to their less experienced and bumbling white, male counterparts.

- signed fly on a wall

With regard to the salaries…NPR pays ‘top talent’ like her all $400k plus — check the 990s. I wouldn’t call that underpaid.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Super toxic workplace ripe with NDAs and dirty laundry. Just look at Executive and leadership turnover. Look at female minority talent turn over.

Hmmm, I wonder if minority women are grossly underpaid compared to their less experienced and bumbling white, male counterparts.

- signed fly on a wall

With regard to the salaries…NPR pays ‘top talent’ like her all $400k plus — check the 990s. I wouldn’t call that underpaid.

That is not actually what the 990s indicate.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Super toxic workplace ripe with NDAs and dirty laundry. Just look at Executive and leadership turnover. Look at female minority talent turn over.

Hmmm, I wonder if minority women are grossly underpaid compared to their less experienced and bumbling white, male counterparts.

- signed fly on a wall

With regard to the salaries…NPR pays ‘top talent’ like her all $400k plus — check the 990s. I wouldn’t call that underpaid.

That is not actually what the 990s indicate.

And if it does, they need to stop hitting me up for more money.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Super toxic workplace ripe with NDAs and dirty laundry. Just look at Executive and leadership turnover. Look at female minority talent turn over.

Hmmm, I wonder if minority women are grossly underpaid compared to their less experienced and bumbling white, male counterparts.

- signed fly on a wall

Listen to the minority women who are announcing for the New York NPR stations that are carried WAMU. Hilarious if you call those voices anything but bumbling.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I had a boss whose sister worked there and said it was a boys club. Also know a friend of a friend who married his intern there. Old enough to be her Dad. This was pre me too.

If the intern's initials are WJ, she broke up my neighbor's marriage. She is now stuck with an old man and my old neighborhood has a great life without the sleazy ex-DH.