NPR Lays Off 28 Staffers, Cancels ‘Tell Me More’ Amid Budget Struggles

Public radio organization aims to close $6 million budget deficit by reducing head count

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National Public Radio is canceling weekday talk show “Tell Me More” and will eliminate 28 jobs as a result of ongoing efforts to close the organization’s budget deficits.

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The program, hosted by Michel Martin, will end its seven-year run on August 1. Martin and the show’s executive editor, Carline Watson, will remain with NPR and focus on issues of race, gender, faith, and family that had been the core of “Tell Me More.”

“These times require that we organize ourselves in different ways and that we’re smarter about how we address the different platforms that we reach our audiences on,” NPR Executive Vice President and Chief Content Officer Kinsey Wilson said.

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