Leadership Reorg at NPR

Mayer new NPR COO

Wilson out at NPR

In a message to their areps NPR announced a major reorganization of its top leadership.  Loren Mayer
will now be NPR's Chief Operating Officer.  She was formerly Senior Vice President of Strategy.

Leaving NPR will be Kinsey Wilson, Executive VP and Chief Content Officer.  His last day will be Friday.

With these two major changes come reshuffling of reporting lines that are detailed in the memo: 

"...areas that will report up to Loren are: Corporate Strategy, Digital Media, Digital Services, Diversity, Engineering/IT, Human Resources, Member Partnership, and Policy and Representation. " 

When appointed, the new SVP of News will report to the CEO (Jarl Mohn).  Chris Turpin will remain in that role until the hiring is complete.  Other changes:

"Anya Grundmann, Director and Executive Producer of NPR Music, will report to the SVP of News, and Sarah Lumbard, VP of Content Strategy and Operations, Zach Brand, VP of Digital Media, and Bob Kempf, VP of Digital Services, will report to Loren. Eric Nuzum, VP of Programming, will report to Chief Marketing Officer Emma Carrasco, whose portfolio will expand to include audience development and the alignment of promotion and marketing across all platforms.  All news-focused programming will eventually shift to the SVP of News, while non-news programs will continue to be led by Eric."