Terry Green Blogs About KUSP

This afternoon All Things Considered reported the hiring of Gary Knell, who has been the President and CEO of Sesame Workshop (as you’d guess, they are the production company for Sesame Street) as the radio network’s new CEO.

Click here to get to the NPR News blog, “The Two-Way,” which has a pretty complete breakdown and lots of interesting links.

I’m sure we member station folks will be hearing more from Gary in the next few days. I’ll pass along any especially interesting insights.

Update 10/3/2011 4:15 PM: here is another post from “The Two-Way” that includes an interview with Gary Knell airing on All Things Considered this afternoon.

This morning NPR announced that Vivian Schiller, the Senior VP and General Manager of NYTimes.com, will be the organization’s new CEO. She takes over on January 5. At 47, she will be one of NPR’s youngest chief executives, and the first woman to hold the top post.

She has been with the Times since 2006; before that, she was a television executive, most recently at the Discovery Times channel (a New York Times/Discovery Productions joint venture), and prior to that, at CNN/Turner Broadcasting.

Throughout the recruitment process (which has been underway since spring) NPR has stressed the importance of having a CEO with a deep understanding of news and of on-line content delivery. Given her resume, they appear to have succeeded in meeting those objectives. I look forward to meeting Vivian and sharing my impressions of her with you…