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    NPR CEO Jarl Mohn To Step Down After 5-Year Term Ends In June

    Mohn will step aside to focus on a newly created position to lead the network's fundraising drive. He and his wife will contribute $10 million toward the effort from their personal fortune.
    by David Folkenflik Dec 04, 2018 6 minutes
    NPR CEO Jarl Mohn announced he will step aside next year to focus on a newly created position to lead NPR's fundraising drive.

    NPR's chief executive, Jarl Mohn, announced Tuesday he would step aside next June at the end of his five-year term to focus on a newly created position to lead the public radio network's fundraising drive ahead of its 50th anniversary in 2020.

    Mohn announced that he and his wife Pamela would also contribute $10 million from their personal fortune toward the effort.

    "I've had a chance to work at some great companies. But this has been the most important and rewarding thing I've done in my career," Mohn said in a telephone interview. "It really has been remarkable."

    In taking the CEO job, Mohn arrived with decades of experience as a broadcast executive and digital media investor, with stints at MTV, VH1, E! and Liberty Media before becoming a private investor. He has been a relentless cheerleader of the durability of terrestrial broadcasting as a platform for public radio, and his tenure has been marked by significant growth in NPR's radio and digital audiences,

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