{"id":4896,"date":"2011-10-03T04:57:01","date_gmt":"2011-10-03T08:57:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/?p=4896"},"modified":"2011-10-03T08:57:06","modified_gmt":"2011-10-03T12:57:06","slug":"npr-hires-new-top-exec","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/2011\/10\/03\/npr-hires-new-top-exec\/","title":{"rendered":"NPR hires new top exec"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>North Country Public Radio&#8217;s main national network, NPR, <a href=\"http:\/\/online.wsj.com\/article\/SB10001424052970204524604576607383312187902.html\">has hired Gary Knell to serve as the organization&#8217;s new CEO<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Knell &#8212; who replaces Vivian Schiller who was ousted following the Juan Williams scandal &#8212; was the head of Sesame Workshop, the organization that produces the popular PBS program &#8220;Sesame Street.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>According to Knell, he hopes to &#8220;depoliticize&#8221; the conversation about NPR&#8217;s future.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s not about liberal or conservative &#8212; it&#8217;s about fairness,&#8221; Knell  said, in an interview with NPR. &#8220;We&#8217;ve got to make the case we&#8217;re delivering a fair service, not  only in the way we do our jobs, but in the way we disseminate the news.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>North Country Public Radio&#8217;s main national network, NPR, has hired Gary Knell to serve as [&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":[19,89,15],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4896"}],"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=4896"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4896\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4897,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4896\/revisions\/4897"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4896"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4896"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4896"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}