NPR offering staff buyouts after receiving $113 million in charitable gifts
NPR announced it is offering buyouts to staffers just weeks after it received over $100 million in charitable gifts.
According to a report from NPR's media correspondent David Folkenflik, NPR CEO Katherine Maher wrote in a memo that the outlet "has to fill a gap of $8 million in its $300-million annual budget" after President Donald Trump and GOP lawmakers cut federal funding last year and that NPR is expected to "earn $15 million less in station fees this year and is anticipating a drop...