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NPR lays off 100 employees as company faces $30 million decline in revenue: Employee layoffs mark one the most significant staff reductions in the company's 53 years of operation.
The Post Millenial ^ | 03/27/2023 | Joshua Young

Posted on 03/27/2023 7:19:34 AM PDT by SeekAndFind

On Thursday, NPR disclosed that they were stopping production on several podcasts as part of a larger series of cutbacks the nonprofit news organization has been forced to make as they confront a decline in revenue projected at $30 million.

According to the Washington Post, this week "the Washington-based audio and digital-news organization began laying off about 100 employees, or 10 percent of its staff."

The employee layoffs mark one the most significant staff reductions in the company's 53 years of operation.

The company's most popular shows, All Things Considered and Morning Edition, remain in production and will continue to broadcast on public-radio affiliates but their podcast division has been reduced.

The NPR program Invisibilia, which premiered in 2015 and dealt with psychology and the social sciences, at one time topped Apple's podcast charts but has become one of the shows the company has ended production on. 

The foreign news analysis program Rough Translation and hip-hop culture show Louder Than a Riot were also axed along with the comedy show Everyone and Their Mom.

NPR has said they are "stopping production" on the shows, not that they were canceled.

NPR spokesperson Isabel Lara said, "Unfortunately, NPR has had to take painful but necessary steps to address its financial issues. We’ve tried as much as possible to retain industry-leading podcast portfolios and focus on key strategic priorities, daily habits and serving new audiences."

NPR previously froze new hiring and made $20 million in budget cuts in November 2022. 

NPR chief executive John Lansing said in a memo to staff, "Unlike the financial challenges we faced during the worst of the pandemic, we project increasing costs and no sign of a quick revenue rebound. We must make adjustments to what we control, and that is our spending."

Lansing said that if not for the recent cuts the company would have become fiscally insoluble by 2025.

NPR's budget is funded in part by taxpayers and the company claims that amount is 2 percent of their overall revenue. The rest is made up of ads, payments from stations, and donations.

"NPR reported revenue of $309.7 million and an operating surplus of $28.8 million in fiscal 2021, the most recent year figures are available. This was a sharp increase over its pandemic-beset fiscal 2020, when it recorded revenue of $275.4 million and a $13.6 million operating surplus," reports the Washington Post.


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Culture/Society; Front Page News; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: gowokegobroke; layoffs; leftist; npr
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Even though Congress established it, and it has always relied in part on taxpayer funding, NPR makes no secret about its political biases: It is a mouthpiece of the Democrat party and accepts unquestioningly all aspects of leftist ideology. That’s why it was wonderful to read that NPR is facing a significant budget decline and has laid off 100 people.
1 posted on 03/27/2023 7:19:34 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
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To: SeekAndFind

Rick Steves should bail them out.


2 posted on 03/27/2023 7:20:52 AM PDT by nwrep
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To: SeekAndFind

3 posted on 03/27/2023 7:20:59 AM PDT by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegal aliens are put up in hotels.....................)
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To: SeekAndFind

Die, NPR, DIE!


4 posted on 03/27/2023 7:22:19 AM PDT by wetgundog
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To: Red Badger

only 900 to go.


5 posted on 03/27/2023 7:22:30 AM PDT by ptsal (Vote R.E.D. >>>Remove Every Democrat ***)
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To: SeekAndFind

A Republican Congress cannot be taken seriously as long as it continues to fund NPR and PBS.


6 posted on 03/27/2023 7:22:58 AM PDT by allendale
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To: SeekAndFind
I like good news!   :-)
7 posted on 03/27/2023 7:22:59 AM PDT by tomkat (SOTU = FUBAR)
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There was a brief time when NPR tried to become more balanced right after Newt took over the House and threatened to zero out the CPB budget, but it didn't last very long.

In the pre-internet days I'd listen to NPR Morning Edition in the AM, Rush at Noon, and G.Gordon Liddy in the PM. I like to have all sides of an issue. Back then NPR was left leaning, but not openly hostile to conservative views.

I can't stand listening to NPR these days because all of their programs sound like The View in their condemnation of anything even remotely right of "moderate."

8 posted on 03/27/2023 7:23:03 AM PDT by Yo-Yo (Is the /Sarc tag really necessary? Pray for President Biden: Psalm 109:8)
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To: SeekAndFind

When will the Republican House defund NPR?


9 posted on 03/27/2023 7:23:26 AM PDT by ConservativeInPA ("How did you go bankrupt?" Bill asked. "Two ways," Mike said. "Gradually and then suddenly." )
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To: SeekAndFind

Uh oh. Time for a telethon featuring Doris Days Greatest Hits for $1200


10 posted on 03/27/2023 7:23:35 AM PDT by albie
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To: SeekAndFind

Maybe they’ll go bankrupt and apply for foodstamps - so we can all have a good laugh.


11 posted on 03/27/2023 7:25:23 AM PDT by AAABEST ( NY/DC/CA media/political/military industrial complex DELENDA EST)
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My comment from a previous thread on this:

I guess they figured out they didn’t have room enough for everyone at their new $200 MILLION headquarters. (Thanks, sucker taxpayers!)

https://www.architectmagazine.com/design/nprs-new-washington-d-c-headquarters-are-a-public-broadcast-of-high-performance-building_o


12 posted on 03/27/2023 7:25:45 AM PDT by VanShuyten ("...that all the donkeys were dead. I know nothing as to the fate of the less valuable animals)
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To: ptsal

They could play reruns of Prairie Home Companion and Click & Clack the Rapper Brothers and I might listen again🤔 ....................


13 posted on 03/27/2023 7:26:45 AM PDT by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegal aliens are put up in hotels.....................)
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“NPR previously froze new hiring and made $20 million in budget cuts in November 2022”

Hey, IF we could get the rest of the Federal Govt to do this, it would be a good start.


14 posted on 03/27/2023 7:27:28 AM PDT by woodbutcher1963
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Speaker McCarthy, Let’s help them by removing federal funding. Let them register as a part of the Democrat party who can fund them directly.


15 posted on 03/27/2023 7:29:43 AM PDT by Reno89519 (DeSantis or Sanders, Anyone But Trump in 2024. Time for Trump to Stand Aside and Retire.)
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To: Red Badger

Even Garrison Keilor became too leftie for me in the latter years. Click and Clack any day, though.


16 posted on 03/27/2023 7:32:14 AM PDT by fwdude (Society has been fully polarized now, and you have to decide on which pole you want to be found.)
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“I can’t stand listening to NPR these days because all of their programs sound like The View in their condemnation of anything even remotely right of “moderate.””

Pretty much the same for me. I catch a few minutes of Morning Edition most weekdays but usually turn it off after the headline news.


17 posted on 03/27/2023 7:32:19 AM PDT by nomorelurker
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To: fwdude

Keilor was discarded by the Left for not being woke enough....................


18 posted on 03/27/2023 7:35:47 AM PDT by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegal aliens are put up in hotels.....................)
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To: SeekAndFind

Schadenfreude





I Think It's a Sin, But I'm Having It Anyway.


19 posted on 03/27/2023 7:37:53 AM PDT by left that other site (Peacemakers who sow in peace reap a harvest of righteousness.)
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Keilor was discarded by the Left for not being woke enough...

He is firmly on the homo bandwagon, which is an immediate disqualifier for me. He had been more vocal about it in the last several years of the show.

20 posted on 03/27/2023 7:40:01 AM PDT by fwdude (Society has been fully polarized now, and you have to decide on which pole you want to be found.)
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