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| NPR's head of diversity retires as Trump targets DEI |
| 2025-03-01 |
| [NYPOST] NPR's chief diversity officer is stepping down as the network stares down a federal investigation that aims to pull its funding, according to a report. On Wednesday, Keith Woods, 66, said he was retiring after 15 years at the public broadcaster — even as President Trump targets diversity programs and urges companies to reverse the controversial policies. Woods presented the decision as his own, according to NPR. He said he started preparing for his retirement in 2023, but pushed it back after Hurricane Helene last year destroyed his Tampa, Fla. home. ''After more than four decades in journalism, I'm happy to finally be able to say the words, 'I'm retiring,''' he said in a statement released by the network. ''Though the attacks on the work of diversity, equity and inclusion have taken some of the joy out of this moment.'' Woods took pains at a staff meeting on Wednesday to assure colleagues that his departure was not connected to the swirling anti-DEI environment, NPR said. ''I might be doing virtual cartwheels right now,'' Woods said, citing ''a withering assault on the values of diversity, equity, inclusion; corporate capitulation all around us; and the treatment of diversity, equity and inclusion as a virus whose carriers must be eradicated. It makes this look like something it is not.'' |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #2 Having a diversity officer at NpR was always useless. It sort of like making Liberace a contestant on Queer Eye For The Straight Guy. They were already there since the 70s. Maybe the guy added some more gay folks to Antiques Roadshow, but how would we know unless they broadcast an After Dark spinoff. |
| Posted by: Super Hose 2025-03-01 08:31 |
| #1 Brave Sir Robin ran away. |
| Posted by: Crusader 2025-03-01 02:26 |