Tagged: NPR

4:37pm

Fri February 1, 2013
Super Bowl

3 ways to sound smart at a Super bowl party

Originally published on Sun February 3, 2013 9:02 pm

If you're invited to a Super Bowl party and aren't quite up to speed about Sunday's big game, join the club. This blogger's a Buffalo Bills fan and tries to kind of tune out around this time of the season because, after all, it brings back some painful memories.

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4:30am

Tue December 6, 2011
Books

Gerry Hadden covers his years as an NPR foreign correspondent

Credit Gerry Hadden

Any dedicated public radio listener has probably wondered what it's like to be a foreign correspondent for NPR. Reporter Gerry Hadden gives us a glimpse into that world in his memoir, Never the Hope Itself.

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9:58am

Wed March 9, 2011
Vivian Schiller

NPR chief resigns in wake of latest controversy

Credit Steven Voss

NPR President and CEO Vivian Schiller has resigned after NPR's board of directors decided that she could no longer effectively lead the organization.

This follows yesterday's news that then-NPR fundraiser Ron Schiller (no relation) was videotaped 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.")

Vivian Schiller quickly condemned Ron Schiller's comments, and he moved up an already-announced decision to leave NPR and resigned effective immediately.

But Ron Schiller's gaffe followed last fall's dismissal of NPR political analyst Juan Williams, for which Vivian Schiller came under harsh criticism and NPR's top news executive, Ellen Weiss, resigned.

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4:34pm

Thu October 21, 2010
Public Media

Did He Deserve to be Fired? NPR Cans Analyst Juan Williams

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On a rare day when the President of the United States is in town, the talk of KPLU's  newsroom was not on Obama's visit, but Juan Williams' firing by NPR.  Williams told Fox News commentator Bill O'Reilly on Monday "I'm not a bigot. You know the kind of books I've written about the civil rights movement in this country.

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