NPR Names NYTimes.com : Vivian Shiller as CEO

Vivian Schiller of The New York Times Web site will be the new president and chief executive officer of NPR, the NPR board of directors announced Tuesday.

Schiller, who is currently senior vice president and general manager of NYTimes.com, will take the reins at a challenging time for media organizations.

Prior to this position, Ms Schiller was Vice President of CNN and ran the Discovery Tines channel.

Schiller will be stepping into the NPR leadership role at a challenging time; as news organizations across the country have laid off employees in droves and newspaper revenues have plummeted, questions have been raised about the future of news.

Need I say that many women alike are elated. NPR is a very powerful platform that the likes of the Bush administration tried to infiltrate.

An amazing role model to all of us, Vivian Schiller shows us that brains and determination can get you places.

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