Did NPR CEO Jump, Or Was She Pushed?

  




  

    

      
By NPR Staff

      
Published: Mar 09, 2011

    

    

                   
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Vivian Schiller
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	NPR announced Wednesday that CEO Vivian Schiller has resigned after controversial comments made by NPR's former top fundraising executive came to light in a secret video.



	The video of Ron Schiller (no relation to the CEO) made public Tuesday shows him disparaging conservative groups during what he thought was a fundraising meeting. The lunch meeting with two people posing as potential contributors to public radio was secretly taped by conservative activists.



	A statement released Wednesday by NPR's board of directors said the resignation by Vivian Schiller, who also faced criticism last fall for the dismissal of commentator Juan Williams, "was accepted." But NPR media correspondent David Folkenflik tells Morning Edition host Renee Montagne that the CEO was forced out.



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