Job and Spending Cuts Across NPR

They don't even factor in the amount of independent freelance work that the two slashed programs; Day to Day and News & Notes relied on. So the fallout at NPR will have an impact on indies all across the country. As a friend said today, "Yes the economy will improve but not for awhile, and yes there is money to be made but you have to be willing to work 10 times as hard to find it." (and that person is in real estate sales...yikes.)

From Current.org

Job and spending cuts extend across NPR
NPR is eliminating 64 jobs to address a projected budget deficit of $23 million and confirming that Day to Day and News & Notes will go off the air on March 20, 2009. Most of the personnel cuts come from laying off staff of the two canceled series, NPR announced in a news release, but job and spending cuts extend across the company to reporting and production, station services, digital media, research, communications and administration. Twenty-one open positions will not be filled.

"With all of NPR's revenue sources under pressure, these actions were necessary to responsibly stabilize our finances and put NPR on a realistic path," said Dennis Haarsager, interim president. "It's crucial to realize that these programming changes are being driven by a loss in revenue, not relevance," said Ellen Weiss, senior v.p. of NPR News.