Open Media Review » podcasting http://openmediareview.com Collecting the best in what Open Media has to offer Wed, 03 Feb 2010 20:39:17 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 NPR delivers possible blow to open media http://openmediareview.com/2008/03/07/npr-delivers-possible-blow-to-open-media/ http://openmediareview.com/2008/03/07/npr-delivers-possible-blow-to-open-media/#comments Sat, 08 Mar 2008 03:27:31 +0000 Mur Lafferty http://openmediareview.com/2008/03/07/npr-delivers-possible-blow-to-open-media/ Tabz tweeted today that NPR has forced out its CEO, Ken Stern.

He’s leaving the company even though in Sterne’s nine years at NPR (first as COO then CEO) he helped with the following:

The audience for NPR programs has doubled to 26 million listeners a week. NPR built an endowment pretty much from scratch that now stands above $300 million. As a result, there are now new programs such as Day to Day, News and Notes, Tell Me More and The Bryant Park Project; the number of domestic bureaus has grown and the number of foreign bureaus now exceeds that of all but a few major American newspapers.

Fantastically forward-thinking, Sterne caused NPR to be a trailblazer in releasing their programs via podcast, and they recently started delivering programs via cell phone. Apparently the local stations started to fret and managed to drive him out.

I fear this is the first of many steps backward of NPR’s previously admirable moves into digital media.

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