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

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3. ""More quality over quantity. Less content for the sake of content."

It sucks that Congress/trump can find oodles of $$ for stupid things like paving his walkway and then cut quality npr programs. Sucks sucks!



NPR trims jobs in newsroom overhaul as it confronts era without public funding
May 18, 20262:02 PM ET
Heard on All Things Considered


David Folkenflik


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Even so, Evans says, the restructuring is warranted.

"My hope and my drive for this is that the journalists in the newsroom at the end of this will be able to still cover the stories that make us uniquely NPR," Evans says. "More quality over quantity. Less content for the sake of content. I want to focus our newsroom on 'capital-J journalism'. That's the foundation of NPR."

He says NPR's National and General Assignments desks next month will merge with a focus on deep dives, natural disasters, and news deserts. NPR's regional bureau chiefs will become part of a new desk that works closely with member station journalists.

Beyond that, Evans says he is merging NPR's desks covering culture, education, religion, addiction and sports to make a society-and-culture desk. He is unifying science and climate coverage in a single desk. And he plans to fold the global health team — now part of the Science desk — into the International desk.......................