{"id":3886,"date":"2011-03-09T10:25:36","date_gmt":"2011-03-09T15:25:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/?p=3886"},"modified":"2011-03-09T20:36:04","modified_gmt":"2011-03-10T01:36:04","slug":"npr-chief-vivian-schiller-steps-down","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/2011\/03\/09\/npr-chief-vivian-schiller-steps-down\/","title":{"rendered":"NPR chief Vivian Schiller steps down"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NPR&#8217;s increasingly embattled CEO, Vivian Schiller, has stepped down.\u00a0 This statement was distributed earlier today by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/blogs\/thetwo-way\/2011\/03\/09\/134388981\/npr-ceo-vivian-schiller-resigns\">NPR&#8217;s board of directors<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;I recognize the  magnitude of this news \u2013 and that it comes on top of  what has been a traumatic  period for NPR and the larger public radio  community. The Board is committed to  supporting NPR through this  interim period and has confidence in NPR&#8217;s  leadership team.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>In recent weeks, NPR&#8217;s top management team &#8212; including top news executive Ellen Weiss, fundraising chief Ron Schiller, and now executive director Vivian Schiller &#8212; have been battered by controversy.<\/p>\n<p>The latest firestorm began with the abrupt dismissal of commentator Juan Williams last year, and escalated as Republicans in Congress moved to defund public broadcasting.<\/p>\n<p>The tipping point came this week, when a conservative activist released a video of top NPR executives speaking disparagingly about conservatives and the GOP.<\/p>\n<p>In a blog post on the <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/allin\/\">All In page<\/a> here on NCPR.org, North Country Public Radio general manager Ellen Rocco, a forme NPR board member, responded to today&#8217;s news with this comment:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The buck does have to stop at the CEO&#8217;s desk. Yes, Vivian herself made  one or two of the mistakes covered in the news, but more importantly,  there is a perception that NPR is a bit in disarray.<\/p>\n<p>Who is taking care  of the details? Who is taking care of the big issues\u2013like basic  guidelines for all employees vis-a-vis public statements?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The latest missteps by NPR executives <a href=\"http:\/\/www.politico.com\/arena\/\">have already emboldened critics<\/a> of Federal funding for public broadcasting.<\/p>\n<p>As always, your thoughts and comments welcome.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NPR&#8217;s increasingly embattled CEO, Vivian Schiller, has stepped down.\u00a0 This statement was distributed earlier today [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[15],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3886"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3886"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3886\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3887,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3886\/revisions\/3887"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3886"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3886"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3886"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}