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Wednesday, December 10, 2008

Media NPR Lays Off Reporters

Posted by Amy J. Ruiz on Wed, Dec 10, 2008 at 12:41 PM

Sad news via Media Bistro about NPR: "The final number of cuts will be 65."

More here: "Confronted by an uncertain economy and a sharp decline in current and projected revenues from corporate underwriting, NPR today announced that it will reduce its workforce by 7 percent and cut expenses. The difficult moves come despite NPR reaching near-record audience levels on-air and online, with 26.4 million people listening to NPR programs each week and 8 million people visiting NPR.org each month."

 

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1
i hope they cut "world have your say" first. gawd.
Posted by miguelaron on December 10, 2008 at 12:57 PM · Report
2
Nope, but Day to Day is gone.
Posted by Amy J. Ruiz on December 10, 2008 at 1:23 PM · Report
3
They're reaching record levels of listeners but cutting anyway?

Uh, something isn't right here!?
Posted by Al M on December 10, 2008 at 1:56 PM · Report
4
Please please please let one of them be Liane Hansen.
Posted by J_Renaud on December 10, 2008 at 4:37 PM · Report
5
the finance world is laying off tens of thousands and I'm not too saddened... but NPR? now I'm upset.
Posted by Ansel on December 11, 2008 at 12:09 AM · Report

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