The New NPR – Money And Ambition

What has national Public Radio done with its gift of $230 million from Joan Kroc’s estate? For one thing, “NPR has created nearly 70 new jobs in its newsroom, many of them for reporters on newly created beats like police and prisons, labor, international economics, the environment, technology and the media. And all this as other news organizations have been paring their staffs and scaling back their ambitions as consumers and advertisers drift away.”