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...same belief that led the producers of Dave to cast a herd of Washington newsies in that political satire, including NPR's Nina Totenberg, journalist-historian Richard Reeves and the McLaughlin Group. And TV buffs will remember Walter Cronkite's walk-on at the end of a Mary Tyler Moore Show episode more than two decades ago. With Contact, however, the journalistic community's sensitivity to the blurring of the lines between news and entertainment has caused some sober second thoughts. CNN president Tom Johnson said last week that in the future such appearances will probably be banned, bringing...
This year's American fellows are Howard Berkes of National Public Radio (NPR); Uri Berliner of the San Diego Union-Tribune; Christine Chinlund of the Boston Globe; Philip J. Cunningham, a free-lance writer based in Tokyo; Cara DeVito of NBC news; Joe Hallinan, a national correspondent with the Newhouse News Service; Julia Keller of the Colombus Dispatch; Phillip W.D. Martin of WGBH Radio; Bryan Rich, senior international producer of Common Group Productions based in Burundi; Joe Rodriguez of the San Jose Mercury News; David Turnley of the Detroit Free Press; and David Welna of NPR...
...that while based in Cairo, he was paid less than other foreign correspondents and denied a promotion despite a favorable review and several high-profile assignments. Khalid, who is a Muslim, also charged that foreign editor Loren Jenkins referred to Arabs as "rag heads" in a meeting--a claim NPR has acknowledged by disciplining Jenkins. But NPR managing editor Bill Buzenberg insists that Khalid "got to Cairo and never applied himself...
...January, Preston Brown, a recording technician, filed an EEOC complaint charging that NPR had refused to train him in new technologies and retaliated against him for protesting. NPR has no comment, but Brown claims to have maintained careful documentation. "I now know that I was denied this training because I am black...
Interviews with a dozen NPR minority employees indicate that they believe the network runs on "cronyism and favoritism," in the words of a black employee. Yet Totenberg, one of the network's most prominent on-air reporters, defends NPR's record, saying it "is an equal-opportunity abuser. I could sit down and write a litany of the times I have been paid less or slighted, but it's still a great place to work, and it's getting better." Perhaps she should add in dulcet tones, "all things considered...