NPR stuff comes in all forms.
Maybe it was a bad year for pledge drives: According to a press release released today, that announced Paul G. Haaga, Jr. as acting president and CEO, NPR said that it “seeks to reduce staffing levels by approximately 10 percent.”
As first reported by Washington City Paper, the release also addresses the approved new budget for 2014 fiscal year, which reports “operating and investment revenues of $178.1 million, expenses of $183 million, and an operating cash deficit of $6.1 million, or 3 percent of revenues.” The release states that “as part of the strategy to eliminate the deficit and lower ongoing expenses, NPR will offer a voluntary buyout plan broadly across the organization.”
Haaga will take over beginning September 30, after NPR’s current president and CEO, Gary E. Knell, leaves to become president and CEO of the National Geographic Society. Haaga will have the position while NPR searches for a permanent replacement.
NPR, which recently moved its D.C. operations into a $201 million building in NoMa, has hundreds of District employees, but the release didn’t specify how the buyouts would affect its local staff.