Behind NPR Exec Ellen Weiss's Departure
The Post has a good story in today’s paper about what was going on at NPR when news executive Ellen Weiss quit/was pushed out/left the broadcaster in the wake of her firing of Juan Williams.
The results of an internal investigation into Weiss’s firing, writes the Post’s Paul Farhi, found that “the reasons behind [NPR boss Vivian] Schiller’s ultimatum to Weiss were more complex” and touched on more than just the Williams firing.
“More than a dozen NPR employees, including some of its well-known hosts, aired long-standing grievances to investigators about Weiss’s management style, particularly the way she had carried out a series of layoffs and terminations in 2008.
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