Vivian Schiller Leaves NPR (Looking back at her tenure as a liberal media titan)

National Review ^ | March 9, 2011 | BRIAN BOLDUC

[Cincinatus' Wife]

...Vivian Schiller resigned as chief executive officer of National Public Radio. “I’m told by sources that she was forced out,” NPR’s media correspondent, David Folkenflik, has reported. Her sudden departure marks an abrupt end to a long-winding climb up the corporate ladder.

In 1983, Schiller graduated from Cornell University with a bachelor’s degree in Russian and Soviet Studies. Two years later, she earned a master’s degree in Russian at Middlebury College. Her first journalism gig was translating Russian in the former Soviet Union for Turner Broadcasting. For ten years, she served as Turner’s vice president of development, producing many award-winning documentaries, such as Hank Aaron: Chasing the Dream.

The climb continued: Between 1998 and 2002, she served as executive vice president of CNN Productions, where she helped launch People in the News and CNN Presents. Afterward, she worked as senior vice president and general manager at the Discovery Times Channel for four years. From May 2006 to December 2008, Schiller was senior vice president and general manager of the New York Times’ website. Finally, in January 2009, Schiller took the helm at NPR.

Once she sat atop the corporate pyramid, however, Schiller began to feel tremors below. Last October, she bungled NPR’s firing of longtime analyst Juan Williams. The Fox News contributor got the boot after he admitted on The O’Reilly Factor, “When I get on a plane, I got to tell you, if I see people who are in Muslim garb and I think, you know, they’re identifying themselves first and foremost as Muslims, I get worried. I get nervous.”

Although many observers viewed NPR’s actions askance — how exactly did Williams’s comment compromise his analysis? — Schiller ridiculed his protests, saying that he should have kept his misgivings about Muslims between himself and “his psychiatrist or his publicist.”...

[Cincinatus' Wife]

NPR CEO Vivian Schiller
addresses a luncheon at the National Press Club in Washington, in this Jan. 03, 2009

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March 7, 2011 -- National Press Club

Vivian Schiller to Discuss the Future of Public Radio, March 7 at National Press Club

WASHINGTON, March 4, 2011 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- As NPR celebrates its 40th anniversary, the number of people listening to NPR member stations is at an all-time high, and the audience for NPR's digital services is sky-rocketing.

During a luncheon speech at the National Press Club in Washington, D.C., on March 7, NPR chief executive Vivian Schiller will explain why the media organization's popularity is growing.

Schiller started her NPR career two years ago – a time when the U.S. economy was plunging. The media organization's corporate underwriting was shriveling and its stock investments tumbling. Schiller was being introduced to the staff just as NPR was laying off workers, eliminating programs, reducing salaries and slashing travel budgets.

But even in those hard times, Schiller pushed for innovation and excellence, especially in the digital world.

Today, NPR has stabilized financially, and is flourishing both on the air and in the mobile and digital space. Under her leadership, NPR has continued to haul in top awards for journalistic excellence. But Schiller and public broadcasting as a whole now face a new and serious challenge given the effort to eliminate federal funding for public radio and television....

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What a difference a day can make.

[scooby321]

She loves Communism.

[Cheetahcat]

The Marxist skank can go work for the Castro brothers.

[howlinhound]

Let the door hit her ass on the way out.

[bwc2221]

Don’t know where Vivian Schiller will make big bucks now. It won’t be in a “think tank” or on a stripper pole.

[moovova]

NPR is just cleaning house a tee-tiny, wee-little bit so thay can say “See, we care! We just got rid of those evil racist, bigoted execs that were bringing us down. So, can we have some more gubment money now?”

[Wally_Kalbacken]

Good riddance to bad rubbish.

The key here is not to allow this to focus on personalities or individuals who take the fall. The goal has to be de-funding. In the modern world of media and with staggering deficits - there is no argument possible for continuing subsidies.

[Cincinatus' Wife]

Exactly. They have a huge pool of LIBERALS to promote. Ms. Schiller’s skills will find work somewhere. My first bet is a berth at Cornell.

[Leftism is Mentally Deranged]

She’ll get a high paying job offer in some other leftist rag.

[oneolcop]

I doubt that she was fired for her political beliefs. She was fired for failing to protect NPR’s true nature from exposure to the light of truth.

[bigbob]

call me a meanie, but I just love it when these elitists get by with their lies and BS only to have it all come back to bite them in the butt later.

She showed us who she really was in the Juan Williams deal, but lied her way out of it...until now.

[Cincinatus' Wife]

....The goal has to be de-funding...

Yes!

Our representatives need to find out when NPR knew about this luncheon Ron Schiller attended with the "Muslim Brotherhood." I think Mr. Schiller and Ms Schiller must be called to testify before congress.

Is NPR covering up the "when" and "why" Ron Schiller resigned?

[Tzimisce]

10% of this nation is unemployed - and this woman will have a job in 2 weeks or less. :(

[Navy Patriot]

An attempt at damage control, contact your US Senators and Representatives now, and demand defunding.

Any good content on NPR can easily attract private support (advertisers), the leftist un American crap will do as well as Err America.

[Cincinatus' Wife]

call me a meanie, but I just love it when these elitists get by with their lies and BS only to have it all come back to bite them in the butt later.

Schadenfreude

[tina07]

Yay to James O’Keefe!!! Keep up the great work!

[Cincinatus' Wife]

Any good content on NPR .....

[Safetgiver]

Guilty. As Hell.

[haywoodwebb]

I wonder if Juan was backing O'Keefe financially in this operation . . .

[YHAOS]

"“I’m told by sources that she was forced out,” NPR’s media correspondent, David Folkenflik, has reported."

Oh! Say it isn't so, Fluffy. Hoo wooda thunk it?