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NPR Head Resigns -- Or Is Pushed Out
- New York Times/Media Decoder, Wednesday, March 9, 2011 3:30 PM
Vivian Schiller has resigned as chief executive of the NPR board. This New York Times/Media Decoder story by Patrick Lyons also lays out the backstory of the recent controversies surrounding NPR,
from the network's dismissal of political commentator Juan Williams to, most recently, a fund-raising exec getting caught on video condemning the Tea Party movement.
Other stories suggest the
board actually ousted Schiller. And a post from the NPR Ombudsman blog
details an apologetic inside view.
