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| 2025 | U.S. Congressman Jim Jordan cited Berliner's claim about NPR's editorial staff party affiliation during a Congressional hearing. |
| January 31 2025 | A Defense Department memo mandated that NPR must relocate from its longtime workspace on the Correspondents' Corridor in the Pentagon, as part of a new Annual Media Rotation Program for the Pentagon Press Corps. |
| 2024 | Uri Berliner resigns from NPR, citing disparagement by CEO Katherine Maher and her divisive views. |
| 2024 | NPR suspends Uri Berliner for 5 days without pay for allegedly not securing approval to work for another outlet. |
| 2024 | Veteran NPR journalist Uri Berliner publicly criticizes NPR for left-wing bias in reporting, particularly after the 2016 United States presidential election. |
| June 2024 | Uri Berliner began working at The Free Press after his resignation from NPR. |
| April 17 2024 | Berliner resigned from NPR in an email to CEO Katherine Maher, accusing her of holding 'divisive' views. |
| April 12 2024 | Uri Berliner was suspended without pay for five days for failing to secure approval for outside work. |
| April 9 2024 | Uri Berliner published an essay in The Free Press criticizing NPR for having a progressive worldview and allegedly attempting to damage Trump's presidency. |
| January 2024 | NPR's board selected Katherine Maher, former Wikimedia Foundation CEO, as the new CEO, with her taking office in late March. |
| 2023 | NPR partnered with Spotify to run targeted advertisements through the Spotify Audience Network platform within NPR programming. |
| April 2023 | Twitter labeled NPR as a government-funded media outlet, alongside PBS, BBC, and Voice of America, sparking controversy about media platform transparency and potential bias. |
| April 12 2023 | NPR announced it would cease all activity on Twitter, protesting the platform's 'inaccurate and misleading' labeling. CEO John Lansing allowed individual journalists to decide their own Twitter usage while criticizing the platform's stance on editorial independence. |
| April 10 2023 | NPR reporter Bobby Allyn revealed that Elon Musk claimed he determined NPR's designation using a Wikipedia category page of publicly funded broadcasters. |
| April 8 2023 | Twitter changed NPR's account designation from 'state-affiliated' to 'government-funded'. |
| February 2023 | CEO John Lansing announced the network would lay off approximately 10 percent of its workforce due to reduced advertising revenue, with the annual operating budget of around $300 million facing a potential funding gap of $30-$32 million. |
| 2022 | NPR experienced a decline in audience, reporting 30.7 million weekly listeners. |
| November 2022 | CEO John Lansing informed staff that NPR needed to reduce spending by $10 million in the current fiscal year due to a drop in sponsor revenue, representing approximately three percent of the organization's annual budget. |
| July 4 2022 | NPR broke its annual July 4th reading tradition. Instead, host Steve Innskeep held a discussion on equality with two historians, referencing the Dobbs decision and exploring the contrast between Thomas Jefferson's words and his participation in slavery. |
| July 16 2021 | Automattic acquired Pocket Casts from NPR. |
| January 2021 | NPR legal affairs correspondent Nina Totenberg reported that some Supreme Court justices were not willing to wear masks to protect Justice Sonia Sotomayor, who was at increased COVID risk. The Supreme Court subsequently released a statement challenging her reporting, claiming all justices were wearing personal protective equipment. |
| 2020 | NPR released its fiscal year 2021 budget, anticipating $250 million in revenue, which was a decrease from the previous year due to COVID-19 pandemic impacts. The budget included $25 million in budget cuts and projected a cash deficit of approximately $4 million. |
| 2020 | NPR declines to cover the Hunter Biden laptop controversy, stating they do not want to waste time on 'stories that are not really stories'. |
| April 2020 | Kelly McBride was appointed as the new Public Editor for NPR, reporting directly to President and CEO John Lansing. |
| January 24 2020 | During the Trump impeachment trial, NPR host Mary Louise Kelly interviewed Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, asking challenging questions about Iran-US relations and Ambassador Marie Yovanovitch. The interview ended with Pompeo becoming confrontational, taking Kelly to a private room and reportedly yelling at her using expletives. |
| January 24 2020 | Following Kelly's interview, the State Department Correspondents' Association reported 'retaliation' by denying NPR correspondent Michele Kelemen a seat on Pompeo's diplomatic flight to Europe and Central Asia. |
| 2019 | John F. Lansing assumes the role of NPR president, leading the organization from 2019 to 2024. |
| 2019 | A Pew Research Center survey found that 87% of NPR's audience identified as Democrats or leaning Democratic, and only 12% were Republicans. |
| 2019 | Furkan Khan, an NPR producer based in Delhi, was forced to resign after making controversial anti-Hindu statements in a tweet, describing Hindus as 'piss drinking and dung worshipping' and suggesting they should 'give up Hinduism'. |
| September 30 2019 | NPR's total operating revenues increased to almost $259 million. |
| 2018 | Public Radio Exchange (PRX) merged with Public Radio International, expanding its distribution network and organizational reach in public radio. |
| December 2018 | NPR launched a new podcast analytics technology called Remote Audio Data (RAD), designed to share listening metrics while maintaining user privacy. |
| December 2018 | The Washington Post reported that 20-22 percent of NPR staff was classified as temps, sparking discussions about employment practices. |
| September 30 2018 | NPR reported total operating revenues of $235 million for the fiscal year. |
| May 2018 | A group led by NPR acquired the podcasting app Pocket Casts. |
| February 2018 | A law firm completes an investigation into NPR's handling of Oreskes, revealing that warnings about his misconduct were raised before his hiring and repeatedly ignored by management. |
| 2017 | Nielsen ratings data revealed NPR's Morning Edition drew 14.63 million weekly listeners, with All Things Considered closely following at 14.6 million weekly listeners. |
| 2017 | NPR reached its peak audience with 37.7 million weekly listeners. |
| November 1 2017 | Michael Oreskes resigns from NPR after being requested to do so by NPR's chief executive Jarl Mohn. Oreskes issues a public statement apologizing and admitting responsibility for his inappropriate behavior. |
| October 2017 | Michael Oreskes resigned at the request of NPR CEO Jarl Mohn, was denied severance and separation benefits, and was required to reimburse NPR $1,800 in expense account charges related to his meetings with women. |
| October 2017 | Sexual harassment charges were leveled against Michael Oreskes, NPR's senior vice president of news and editorial director, with accusations spanning from his time at The New York Times in the 1990s to his conduct at NPR, where eight women filed complaints. |
| October 2017 | Two journalists accuse Michael Oreskes of sexual harassment from his time as Washington, DC bureau chief at The New York Times in the 1990s. Following a Washington Post report, NPR places Oreskes on administrative leave. |
| September 2017 | Production of 'The Best of Car Talk' ended, with the show continuing to run as a 'best of' series after Tom and Ray Magliozzi stopped producing new episodes. |
| July 4 2017 | NPR expanded its Declaration of Independence reading to Twitter, posting over 100 tweets of the document. The tweets sparked controversy, with some Trump supporters misinterpreting the historical text as commentary on the current president. |
| 2015 | Demographic data showed that 87% of NPR's terrestrial public radio audience and 67% of its podcast audience was white. |
| 2015 | FAIR published studies revealing a significant lack of diversity in NPR's board membership, with 75% of board members having corporate affiliations and 72% being non-Latino white males. |
| November 2 2015 | NPR Members approved a change in the NPR Bylaws, expanding the board of directors from a previous composition to a new 23-director structure, including 12 Member Directors, 9 Public Directors, the NPR Foundation Chair, and the NPR President & CEO. |
| October 2015 | NPR journalist Rebecca Hersher files a complaint against Michael Oreskes after he discussed having sex with his girlfriend during a career counseling session, resulting in NPR reprimanding him. |
| 2014 | NPR CEO Jarl Mohn announced plans to increase revenue by seeking higher rates from brands considered more relevant to their audience. |
| 2014 | Pew Research reported that 55% of adults familiar with NPR trusted the organization, placing it at a comparable trust level with major news networks like CNN, NBC, and ABC. |
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