Todd Spangler NY Digital Editor NPR has hired Katherine Maher, former CEO of the Wikimedia Foundation and most recently chief exec of the Web Summit conference, as its next president and chief executive officer.
Maher will start at the public radio broadcaster on March 25, taking over for outgoing NPR CEO John Lansing, who announced last fall he would step down from the role before his five-year contract expired.
Maher currently is the CEO of Web Summit, a position she assumed in October 2023 when the conference’s founder, Paddy Cosgrave, stepped down after a backlash over his criticism of Israel in the wake the Oct.
7 Hamas terrorist attack on civilians in the country. Prior to joining Web Summit, Maher was CEO of the Wikimedia Foundation, the not-for-profit org that hosts Wikipedia.
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