John Lansing

John Lansing, who has run NPR for four years, said it was now in the early stages of a national search for his successor. NPR’s chief executive, John Lansing, said September 2023 that he would retire at the end of the year, ending a rocky four years atop the public broadcaster. A veteran media executive, Mr. Lansing joined NPR as its chief executive in 2019 after running the U.S. Agency for Global Media. During his tenure, NPR faced serious financial difficulties, some of them brought on by the pandemic. In February 2023 NPR laid off 10 percent of its staff, more than 100 people, to make up for a $30 million budget shortfall that Mr. Lansing attributed to slowing advertising revenue and fewer corporate sponsorships. During Mr. Lansing’s tenure, NPR won more than 90 awards for its journalism, including its first Pulitzer Prize award in 2021.