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National Public Radio has adopted a series of measures to improve its workplace culture, following an independent investigation into sex harassment issues stemming from the ouster of a top executive. […]

A coalition of top public broadcast organizations formally withdrew a recommendation Friday that the FCC ease equal employment opportunity requirements for public stations. America’s Public Television Stations, NPR, CPB and PBS jointly recommended the review in a joint response to the commission’s request for comments on its agenda to modernize media regulations. After supporters of the EEO rules objected last week, the organizations formally withdrew it.

His departure comes after Tuesday’s Washington Post report on sexual harassment allegations from two women while he was at The New York Times in the 1990s.

Since it jumped into Facebook Live, NPR has created more than 1,375 videos. It has broadcast from 23 states and 19 countries. And it’s learned a few things along the way that you might find helpful.

A longtime contributor to NPR, Sports Illustrated and HBO, Deford was the only sportswriter to receive a National Humanities Medal.

WASHINGTON (AP) — David Gilkey, a veteran news photographer and video editor for National Public Radio, and an Afghan translator, Zabihullah Tamanna, were killed while on assignment in southern Afghanistan […]

NPR News and PBS NewsHour will cover the 2016 political conventions together: one team of journalists and one broadcast, designed to work for radio and television as well as digital audiences.

BOSTON (AP) — Tom Magliozzi, a Boston-area mechanic and MIT graduate who became an unlikely radio star as part of the brother duo that hosted “Car Talk,” one of public […]

Knell, president and CEO of the public radio network, will take on the same role at the National Geographic Society this fall. Knell, who assumed his current role in 2011, will stay with NPR until the fall to work with the Board to ensure a smooth transition as it launches a search for his successor.

In part two of an exclusive interview with NetNewsCheck (read part one here), Planet Money‘s Alex Blumberg and Adam Davidson turn their analytical acumen on the state of the news business. And in an age of unprecedented experimentation, they expect an inevitably high failure rate that makes for high stakes, but riveting times. “I think we’re in a period of a lot of experimentation, and that part of it is exciting to me. As with all market experiments, most of them are going to fail. A lot of them are going to be pretty lousy and some good ideas are going to fail, but I like that part of it,” Davidson says.

NPR’s Planet Money has crafted a new reportorial path for covering complicated stories that’s so engaging the network wants to infuse more of its news programming with the same curious, humane, approachable style. In part one of a two-part interview, reporters Adam Davidson and Alex Blumberg talk about how Planet Money helped bridge the digital divide in NPR’s newsroom culture and why “value-added” news will play a critical role in challenging economic times for the media.

NEW YORK (AP) — NPR’s “Wait Wait … Don’t Tell Me” is coming to TV for the first time. The comedic radio quiz show will debut on BBC America with […]

Gary Knell, the longtime president and CEO of Sesame Workshop, becomes head of NPR on Dec. 1, succeeding Vivian Schiller, who resigned under pressure in March after a former NPR fundraiser was caught on camera calling the tea party racist.

Former National Public Radio head Vivian Schiller, who left her last job under a political cloud, looks to have found a new position. She’s in talks to work at NBC News, where she’ll oversee digital projects.

NPR President-CEO Vivian Schiller resigned this morning. The moved followed yesterday’s news that then-NPR fundraiser Ron Schiller (no relation) was videotapped slamming conservatives and questioning whether NPR needs federal funding during a lunch with men posing as members of a Muslim organization (they were working with political activist James O’Keefe on a “sting.”)

The Association of Public Television Stations and NPR are consolidating their lobbying efforts to broaden APTS’ advocacy work to include public radio. The Public Media Association will be governed by a legislative council of four pubradio leaders named by the NPR board of directors and four public TV leaders selected by the APTS Action board, along with NPR President Vivian Schiller and APTS President Pat Butler.

NPR News’ executive editor apologized Sunday to Giffords’ family for the false report. Within a half hour, all three cable news networks had bannered the headline of Giffords’ supposed death.

Massive budget shortfalls, vicious in-fighting and a power shift in Washington. Make no mistake, public media is facing the biggest ever threat to its existence. This time, the haters are deadly serious. And they have timing on their side.