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NPR News Director Becomes Ombudsman

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fred flintstone

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Marimow Resigns As NPR VP, Takes Ombudsman's Role
NATIONAL PUBLIC RADIO VP for News (and former BALTIMORE SUN Publisher and Pulitzer Prize-winning PHILADELPHIA INQUIRER reporter) BILL MARIMOW has resigned and will take the position of NPR's Ombudsman. The network is using SUCHERMAN CONSULTING GROUP to search for MARIMOW's successor as VP.
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This is strange. The head of the news department becomes the guy who takes listener complaints, often about news stories and news coverage. Can he be objective? Judging by reactions of radio news people on this board, journalists often don't deal well with criticism. Is this guy able to shut off the part of his brain that worked in news?

The news VPs job has been filled by an associate on a temporary basis. This has started a chain of serial vacancies as people move up a notch - temporarily - to cover for the boss, who moves up a notch .... But they are going outside to look for a permanent replacement. Unless there is some problem, there is something to be said for promoting from within. And why pay money for a consultant? Is this guy supposed to know their needs better than they do? But public radio has always been addicted to consultants.
 
Update: Today the New York Times is calling this a demotion. Apparently Marimow was seen as a print guy who didn't get radio and never learned to play "the game" with management. So he was shunted aside and made the guy who has to deal with complaints.
 
Next Move; Out the Door.

fred flintstone said:
Update: Today the New York Times is calling this a demotion. Apparently Marimow was seen as a print guy who didn't get radio and never learned to play "the game" with management. So he was shunted aside and made the guy who has to deal with complaints.
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Want to know where Marimow's next job at NPR will be? Out the door. This is one of the oldest games in the book. Move someone around to another position, in this case I would think of less importance, so that the individual gets so fed up they quit.
 
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