A veteran executive and journalist with ties to Kentucky, Lansing stepped into the top perch at NPR in 2019.
Tonight, his address – delivered over Zoom – is entitled “Bearing Witness in the Age of Disinformation: Public Service Journalism and Why It Matters More Than Ever.”
Under Lansing’s leadership, NPR has focused on reaching new audiences, both on the technical side with a greater emphasis on smart speakers and connected cars, and in its hiring and reporting.
In January 2020, Lansing made expanding diversity of the NPR audience the network’s number one goal, saying the news outlet cannot embrace diversity in content if “we don’t do it in our workplaces, in our newsrooms and our board rooms.”
As for his Kentucky connection, the NPR president started his news career at age 17 as a technician and cameraman at WPSD-TV in Paducah.
The lecture can be viewed via this Zoom link at 6 p.m. Monday night.
