NPR CEO and President To Give Talk In Bloomington
National Public Radio CEO Vivian Schiller will speak Oct. 19.
7 p.m. at the Buskirk-Chumley Theater, 114 E. Kirkwood Ave.
Vivian Schiller made the switch from print to broadcast earlier this year when she moved from the senior vice president and general manager of The New York Times to National Public Radio, where she is CEO. In this position, she oversees all NPR operations, including the organization’s partnerships with more than 800 member stations. She just led NPR’s redesign of its Web site.
While she’s new to radio, Schiller does have broadcast and multimedia experience. She spent four years as general manager of the Discovery Times channel, a joint venture of The New York Times and Discovery Communications. Under her leadership, Discovery Times Channel tripled its distribution while achieving critical acclaim for its award-winning journalistic programming.
Schiller also served as senior vice president at CNN Productions, where documentaries produced during her tenure won two Peabody Awards, two Alfred I. DuPont-Columbia University Awards and five Emmys. At the Times, Schiller oversaw the day-to-day operations of NYTimes.com, the newspaper’s Web site.
