Online Edition | Washington State University | Pullman, Washington | Friday, September 7, 2001

Top NPR exec eyes future

Kevin Klose, National Public Radio president and chief executive, will speak about the future of public broadcasting at 10:10 a.m. Friday, Sept. 21, in FSHN T101.

The award-winning author and international broadcasting executive will be joined by Dana Davis Rehm, NPR’s vice president for member services.

Klose and Rehm will be available for questions from the media after the speech.

Klose is a former editor and national and foreign correspondent for the Washington Post. Before joining NPR in 1998, he oversaw the federal government’s global radio and television news services and earlier served as president of Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty, which broadcasts to Central Europe and the former Soviet Union.

Additionally, Klose is a founder of the Intermedia Survey Institute of Washington, a nonprofit research firm specializing in media and opinion survey in Eurasia.

NPR is a nonprofit news and cultural radio programming service with 600 stations nationwide. It serves a weekly audience of nearly 15 million listeners nationwide.

For more information, contact Roger Johnson, Northwest Public Radio station manager, at 335-6551.