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WHERE HAVE YOU GONE PUBLIC RADIO?

Washington, DC

In the course of his reporting on National Public Radio ["Good, Gray NPR," May 23], Scott Sherman contacted me to ask about my perceptions of the network, where I have worked for the past year as one of NPR's two managing editors. During our interview, Sherman asked me whether it was true that NPR's vice president of news, Bruce Drake, had blocked any of my journalistic initiatives. I told him--on the record and for use in his article--that, to the contrary, Drake had been 100 percent supportive of my work since I joined the staff and that I considered him a good man and a good journalist. Despite the fact that I provided Sherman with that assessment, he chose to report that NPR sources "anticipate future discord" between Drake and myself.

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