Respecting Listeners, Interviewees — And Staff
Abrupt newsroom layoffs upset listeners and NPR employees alike.
Public media is built on a foundation of what I'd call basic decency. NPR's ethics handbook promises it will hold its journalists to the same high standards that it holds public officials and others it reports on: that it will treat the people it interviews with respect, and that it will be transparent and accountable for all it does.
The news that came out earlier this week, that NPR was as part of a newsroom restructuring, did not feel respectful or transparent to many both inside and outside NPR's newsroom.
