NPR ANNUAL REPORT 2013

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TABLE OF CONTENTS

Overview of 2013 3

NPR Leadership Team 6

NPR Board of Directors 7

NPR Foundation Board of Trustees 8

NPR Supporters 10

Statement of Financial Position 15

Statement of Activities 16

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WELCOME TO THE 2013 ANNUAL REPORT FROM NPR

2013 WAS A YEAR OF BUILDING FOR THE FUTURE and a city in mourning, NPR presented listeners with – embracing change and innovation in our newsroom, comprehensive coverage on the air and online. connecting with the audiences of today, and preparing The collaboration during coverage of the Boston bombings to meet the audiences of tomorrow. It was a time is just one sign of the new spirit of partnership between NPR of transformation in public radio. and Member Stations. This year we announced the launch Our leadership team continued to reimagine the role of a newly reimagined Here & Now produced in collaboration of the organization in meeting the constantly changing with WBUR. This new program is bringing a powerful news needs of our Member Stations and the NPR audience. presence to mid-days, along with the combined weight We reaffirmed our dedication to reaching listeners where of the NPR newsroom. they are and offering them high quality content on every Inside our newsroom, the remarkable work continued. This platform. To do so, this year we have been focused on year an NPR News/Center for Public Integrity investigation fundamental questions about how NPR can meet the studied the 179 grain bin deaths since 1984 and found that evolving needs of our stations — and the ever-changing federal regulators routinely slash major fines and void the needs of the audience — today and in the critical next most serious violations even when egregious and willful behavior three to five years. by employers results in “drownings” in grain storage bins. Our transformation was evident throughout the The story got the attention of Congress, the Occupational organization and is at the heart of our newest asset: our Safety and Health Administration, and the Justice Department, new headquarters. NPR moved into its new headquarters which all looked into persistent and preventable deaths in at 1111 North Capitol Street in the spring of 2013. Staff have grain storage bins and how to address weak enforcement shared that we finally have a workplace that is equal to by federal agencies. our aspirations. It is a facility that offers us the space to think and breathe, and achieve. In 2013, we followed the stories that had impact – including series documenting swift changes happening Our new, more collaborative and modern workspace here and abroad. also allows us the opportunity to open our doors to the public in ways that we haven’t been able to do in the Our series, “The Changing Lives of Women” focused past. More than 4,000 people signed up for our building on the 1 billion women entering the formal workforce tours this year, and, for the first time, we were able to host in the coming decade – and how that will affect homes, community events in Studio 1, our multifunctional studio/ workplaces, and our world. theatre, and welcome the community around us into NPR. Our coverage of women in the military illuminated what From our earliest days at 1111 North Capitol Street, it has it really means for women to serve on the battlefield been the home of substantive — and collaborative — and on bases here at home. journalism. The Morning Edition staff began their work at 1111 the same day the search for the Boston Marathon bombers Our international coverage continued to gain well took place. From interviewing eye witnesses and terrorism deserved acclaim. Our reporting on the ongoing conflict experts to working with member stations WBUR and WGBH in Syria earned NPR a prestigious George Foster Peabody to bring listeners coverage of the bombings, the survivors, Award for “finding ways to get deep into Syria” to deliver

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“detailed reportage, often from dangerous locations” News covered the flawed rollout, the stories of people within the ongoing conflict. International correspondents who saw unexpected rises in the cost of their health Kelly McEvers, based in Beirut, and Deborah Amos, a plans, as well as stories of the uninsured obtaining roving correspondent who’s spent three decades covering coverage through the exchanges. the region, led NPR’s reports during frequent trips into In 2013, we launched “Code Switch” our new multiplatform Syria and from along the border in Turkey and Lebanon. beat on race, ethnicity, and culture. The team is covering From interviews with Assad regime officials to the new stories — and continuing stories in new ways — ranging discovery of an unexpected unity among Christian and from how different cultures handle personal space to the Muslim rebels, NPR captured the pace and gravity narratives that emerged around NBA player Jason Collins. of the growing uprising and gave voice to the conflict Also this year, The Race Card Project with Michele Norris for millions of listeners. launched on Morning Edition, with Michele diving into Around the world, NPR was there to capture the sounds, people’s experiences, observations, triumphs, laments, stories, and context surrounding major international news theories, or anthems about race or cultural identity — all events this year. As one example, ahead of the Venezuelan distilled into one six-word sentence. elections, Steve Inskeep hosted Morning Edition from During the second annual public radio music month, Caracas, where he and NPR’s Jasmine Garsd trekked to across the country artists, bands, communities, and listeners explore socio-political developments in the post-Chavez recognized the value of their local stations in keeping music society. From covering the devastation surrounding alive in America. On the air this year we shared our biggest Typhoon Haiyan and the slow rebuilding in the city music event of the year, SXSW, during which NPR Music of Tacloban — to the international ramifications of the presented one of the most talked about showcases. Edward Snowden leaks, NPR was on the story. The event, featuring seven bands, was video webcast In-depth and dynamic may be the best way to describe on NPR.org and Member Station websites and broadcast our coverage of other big news stories of the year: the live in Austin on KUT. We also presented an Alt.Latino government shutdown and the launch of the Affordable Latin music showcase at SXSW that included Bajofondo , Care Act. During the government shutdown, our coverage Molotov, and Latin music pioneers Café Tacvba. took listeners from Washington, DC, to the Grand Canyon On the digital side, in 2013 we broke major NPR.org traffic to show how widely the lives of ordinary Americans were records, proving that NPR is where people are turning for affected, while our team of political reporters and analysts breaking news. We’ve launched geo-located homepages kept our audience abreast of the ongoing negotiations on NPR.org, automatically branding visitor experiences and the potential political fallout. with the logos of their local stations. And over the year we Leading up to the launch of the Affordable Care Act, began putting pages on NPR.org into responsive design, NPR tackled many of the law’s complex questions with so that no matter what device you use to access the site, straightforward explanatory journalism and interactive it will adjust and be optimized for the device you are on. tools. In collaboration with the Kaiser Health Foundation, In December we launched one of our most innovative we created a calculator to help shoppers find out how multimedia series, Planet Money’s extraordinary look at much Obamacare would cost. Following the launch, NPR how a t-shirt is made. The award-winning team kicked

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off Planet Money T-shirt Week, a globe-spanning series that documented the entire production of a t-shirt in sound, images, and words. As the reports progressed, Planet Money unraveled the complicated supply chain to discover both the economic forces and human labor involved in producing a basic t-shirt. Each report from disparate locales brought audiences new revelations, both serious and humorous, about everyday goods often taken for granted. Audiences experienced the journey on Morning Edition and All Things Considered, and also at a stunningly produced, video-rich website.

We ended the year with news of an inspiring investment in our work: $17 million in grants from the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, The Wallace Foundation, Ford Foundation, and individual philanthropists. These grants will both deepen and extend NPR’s coverage of key issues, and support work by NPR and six Member Stations to reimagine the public radio experience for digital listening. It’s transformative work that will empower audiences to experience public radio however they want it — delivering news, music, culture, insights, and ideas to tens of millions in words, images, and sounds.

NPR is committed to being relevant and connecting with an increasingly diverse audience; to modeling best practices in partnership with our stations — supporting their successes online, on the air, and behind the scenes; and to building a sustainable business model that will ensure the future of NPR.

Our audience and supporters are essential to all of this and to what we do each day. It’s this community of public radio listeners who allow us to provide the best programming and fulfill our mission.

THANK YOU.

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NPR LEADERSHIP TEAM

Gary E. Knell Loren Mayor President and CEO Senior Vice President, Strategy (to 11/30/13)

Terri Minatra Paul G. Haaga Jr. General Counsel, Vice President, Secretary Interim President and CEO (From 09/30/13) Eric Nuzum Vice President, Programming Zach Brand Vice President, NPR Digital Media Jeffrey Perkins Vice President, Human Resources Emma Carrasco and Chief People Officer Chief Marketing Officer

Dana Davis Rehm Deborah Cowan Senior Vice President Marketing, Chief Financial Officer and Treasurer Communications and External Relations

Stanley Garrison Michael Riksen Vice President, Technology Operations, Vice President, Policy and Representation Distribution, and Broadcast Engineering

Joyce Slocum Monique Hanson Chief Administrative Officer and Secretary Chief Development Officer

Margaret Low Smith Robert Kempf Senior Vice President, News Vice President, NPR Digital Services

Michael Starling Peter Loewenstein Vice President and Executive Director, NPR Labs Vice President, Distribution

Kinsey Wilson Sarah Lumbard Chief Content Officer Vice President, Content Strategy and Operations

Keith Woods Joyce MacDonald Vice President, Diversity in News And Operations Chief of Staff and Vice President, Member Partnership

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NPR BOARD OF DIRECTORS

Carol A. Cartwright (Term Ended November 2012) Bill Davis (Term Ended in November 2013) Fabiola Arredondo (Term Began in November 2013) Chris Boskin (Term Began in November 2013) Patricia Diaz Dennis Betsy Gardella Paul G. Haaga, Jr. Eduardo A. Hauser (Term Ended in November 2013) John A. Herrmann, Jr. (Term Ended in November 2013) Kit Jensen Gary E. Knell (Term Ended in September 2013) Roger LaMay Caryn Mathes Greg Petrowich Marita Rivero Florence M. E. Rogers Roger Sarow Kerry Swanson (Term Began in November 2013) Antoine W. van Agtmael (Term Ended in November 2013) Connie Walker Howard Wollner (Term Began in November 2013) John S. Wotowicz

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NPR FOUNDATION BOARD OF TRUSTEES

Antoine W. van Agtmael Margot Ernst Jonathan Kutchins Chairman New York, NY Boston, MA Bethesda, MD John Farmer Stuart Lucas Paul M. Ginsburg Tiburon, CA Chicago, IL Vice Chair Ross, CA Gary J. Fernandes Joseph C. McNay Dallas, TX Boston, MA John McGinn Vice Chair Harriett Gold Lynn Pigott Mowe New York, NY Los Angeles, CA Bellevue, WA

William J. Poorvu James M. Grant Miriam Muscarolas Vice Chair New York, NY Los Angeles, CA Cambridge, MA Anette L. Harris Patricia M. Papper Camilla Smith Tiburon, CA Miami, FL Vice Chair San Francisco, CA John A Herrmann, Jr. George McCorkell Plews New York, NY Indianapolis, IN Howard Wollner Vice Chair Richard H. Hertzberg Richard Rampell Healdsburg, CA Del Mar, CA Palm Beach, FL

Trustees Peter N. Heydon John Reinsberg Ann Arbor, MI New York, NY

Norris Bishton, Jr. Stephen Hopkins Murray Sinclaire Pacific Palisades, CA Washington, DC Cinncinatti, OH

Caroline Bucksbaum Patricia Ishiyama Frederika Stevenson Chicago, IL San Francisco, CA Cambridge, MA

John Buoymaster Jane F. Katcher Howard Stevenson San Francisco, CA Coconut Grove, FL Cambridge, MA

Donald P. de Brier Jeffrey L. Kenner Bernee D.L. Strom Pacific Palisades, CA New York, NY Kirkland, WA

John P. Dubinsky St. Louis, MO

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NPR FOUNDATION BOARD OF TRUSTEES

Peter D. Swift, MD Trustees Emeriti Charlotte, VT

Roselyne Chroman Swig Dean V. Ambrose San Francisco, CA Los Angeles, CA

Charlotte Vaughan Winton Sukey R. Garcetti San Francisco, CA Los Angeles, CA

John S. Wotowicz Barbara S. Linhart Austin,TX New York, NY

Jane V. Peyrouse Ex Officio Trustees Summerville, MA

Sandra S. Pressman Gary E. Knell Los Angeles, CA President & CEO, NPR Lee Ramer

Kit Jensen Los Angeles, CA Chairman, NPR Board of Directors

Betsy Gardella Chair, Development Committee

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NPR SUPPORTERS

20th Century Fox Home Entertainment Atlanta Symphony Capella University

2U Atlassian Capitol Records

ATO Records Carbonite A Audible.com CarMax

Acorn Media Group AuthorBuzz Carnegie Corporation of New York

AEG Live AutoTrader.com Carrot Top Records

Aetna Foundation Certified Financial Planner Board of Standards Al Jazeera America B Charles Schwab & Co. Allegro Media Group Bank of America Chevrolet Allstate Corporation Barnes & Noble CIGNA Foundation Ally Bank Beggars Group Cinedigm Entertainment Group Alternative Distribution Alliance Ben & Jerry’s CITGO Amazon Content Services Berkley Books Citrix Systems American Express Company Better World Club ClearChoice Dental Implant Centers American Institute of Architects Billboard Cleveland Clinic American Jewish World Service Biola University CNN America’s Natural Gas Alliance Blinds.com The Colorado Symphony Ancestry.com Bluebeam Software Columbia University Anchor Bay Entertainment Bonobos Comité Champagne Angie’s List Boston Children’s Hospital Concord Music Group Ann Arbor Area Convention Bryant University & Visitors Bureau Concrete Marketing Bushbranch The Annie E. Casey Foundation The Conservation Fund The Bydale Foundation ANTI- Records Constant Contact Byliner Apple Cooperative Music The Argus Fund C Corporation for Public Broadcasting The Arts Center of the Capital Region Craft in America Cambridge Savings Bank ASU Online Creative Artists Agency Cancer Treatment Centers of America athenahealth Croshal Entertainment Group

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NPR SUPPORTERS

CSX Corporation Focus Features HBO

CVS Focus World The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation The Ford Foundation D Hilton, Lisa Ford Motor Company Historic Deerfield Da Capo Press Fox Searchlight Pictures The Holborn Foundation Delta Air Lines Fueled by Ramen Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Dignity Health Full Sail University House Lights Media Dine Alone Records House of Marley USA Discovery Communications G HowAboutWe Domino Recording Company Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation Domtar Corporation G.P. Putnam’s Sons I Doris Duke Charitable Foundation Geffen Records IBM Doris Duke Foundation for Islamic Art General Mills IFC Downtown Media George Lucas Educational Foundation IGLOO Software The Ducommun and Gross George Washington University Family Foundation Inada The J. Paul Getty Trust Indomina Releasing E Glaxosmithkline INGrooves Fontana Glimmerglass Festival The Economist International Rescue Committee Google EMI Music Italian Embassy William T. Grant Foundation Encore.org (formerly Civic Ventures) ITVS The George Gund Foundation Endless Pools J Equal Vision Records H Esurance Insurance Services Jeep Hachette Book Group USA ExxonMobil Jim Beam Brands (Maker’s Mark) Harlequin John Wiley & Sons F HarperCollins Publishers The Joyce Foundation Mary W. Harriman Foundation Fifth Generation John A. Hartford Foundation Film Collective

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NPR SUPPORTERS

K MD Anderson Cancer Center Nissan The Giles W. and Elise Nonesuch Records Kennedy Space Center G. Mead Foundation Nora Roberts Foundation Kirtland Records The Melville Charitable Trust Novo Nordisk John S. and James L. Knight Foundation Merge Records Kobo Microsoft Corporation O The Kresge Foundation Millennium Entertainment Offce Designs Mitsubishi Motors Corporation L Office Depot Mom+Pop Records OfficeMax The Jacob & Valeria MOO Langeloth Foundation The Ohio State University Motor City Casino Medical Center Lemelson Foundation MSNBC Open Road Integrated Media Leon Levy Foundation Mute Records Open Society Institute LifeLock Orange County Community Foundation Lincoln Financial Group N Orfalea Foundation Lindamood Bell Learning Processes Nashville Symphony Outback Concerts Live Nation National Association of Personal Oxingale Records Living Essentials Financial Advisors Louisiana Office of Tourism National Association of Realtors P Lumber Liquidators National Association of Social Workers Pajamagram Company Lumosity National CineMedia Pantages Theater National Endowment for the Arts Pantelion Films National Geographic Channel M Paramount Pictures National Geographic Society Park Foundation, Inc. The John D. and Catherine National Theatre T. MacArthur Foundation Parker, Jon Kimura NBC Universal Mack Avenue Records PBS Nederlander Organization Macmillan Publishers PBS Distribution New York Health & Racquet Club MailChimp Pegasystems New York Times, The MassMutual Financial Group Penguin Group (USA) Newman’s Own Foundation Mayo Clinic Performance Bicycle

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NPR SUPPORTERS

Personal Capital San Francisco Symphony T The Pew Charitable Trusts The SCAN Foundation T. Rowe Price Ploughshares Fund Scholastic Temple University Plume Science & Technology Directorate (DHS) Texas Mutual Insurance Company Poetry Foundation Seattle University TF Cornerstone Principal Financial Group Sennheiser Electronic Corporation TheHuffingtonPost.com Progressive Casualty Insurance Company ShareFile Thomson Reuters Corporation

Public Welfare Foundation, Inc. Siemens TIAA-CREF

Simha Tire Rack R Simon & Schuster Toyota

Random House Sit4Less U Raymond James Financial Skoll Foundation

Rdio Alfred P. Sloan Foundation U.S. Department of Education

Red Light Management smart Union of Concerned Scientists

Redeye Distribution Sony Music Entertainment Unisys Corporation

Regis University Sony Pictures UnitedHealthcare

REI Sony Pictures Home Entertainment Universal Music Group

Reputation.com Soul Doctor Universal Pictures

Retrofit Squarespace Universal Pictures Home Entertainment

Riverhead Books Staples Universal Uclick

Road Scholar Sub Pop Records University of Iowa Press

Robert Sterling Clark Foundation Subaru of America University of Maryland

RockAuto Submarine Entertainment University of Notre Dame

Rounder Records Suburban Noize Records V Sy Syms Foundation S Valvoline

Salsa Labs Vanderbilt University Medical Center

San Diego Brewers Guild

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NPR SUPPORTERS

Vermont Department of Tourism and Marketing X

Vermont Teddy Bear Co. Xerox Corporation

Virginia Energy Sense Y

W Yeproc Records

Walgreen Co. Z The Wallace Foundation

Wallace Genetic Foundation Zurich North America

Walmart

Walt Disney Studios

Walton Family Foundation

Warner Home Video

Warner Music Group

Water Tower Music

Wealth Counsel

WeatherTech

Weight Watchers International

The Weinstein Company

Wells Fargo Advisors

WFIU

WGBH

The Wildflower Foundation, Inc.

William Morrow & Co.

Wix.com

WTTW

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STATEMENT OF FINANCIAL POSITION (NPR PARENT COMPANY ONLY)

Assets Liabilities and Net Assets

Current Liabilities $ Current Assets $ Accounts payable and other liabilities 26,305,837 Cash and cash equivalents 12,545,486 Deferred revenue 31,451,844 Restricted cash and cash equivalents 3,477,748 Debt 176,196,476 Accounts and contributions receivable, net 28,737,587 Total Liabilities 233,954,157 Investments 101,232,577 Net Assets 159,494,609 Property and equipment, net 236,624,428 Total Liabilities and Net Assets 393,448,766 Prepaid expenses and other assets 10,830,940

Total Assets 393,448,766

The financial information above is presented for convenience purposes only. While the financial information was extracted from supplementary information in the audited financial statements, the financial information should not be relied on. A copy of the printed financial statements is available upon request.

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STATEMENT OF ACTIVITIES (NPR PARENT COMPANY ONLY)

Operating Revenues Operating Expenses

$ $

Station dues and fees 77,466,855 News and engineering 85,009,308

Corporate sponsorship 43,991,377 Digital media and services 17,701,103

Grants and contributions 30,740,895 Distribution and satellite interconnection 16,823,751

Distribution and satellite interconnection 14,348,595 Programming and NPR Music 20,680,339

Distribution from endowment 11,135,076 Support and other program services 55,784,366 to support operations Total operating expenses 195,998,867 Other revenues 14,055,706 Change in net assets from operations (4,260,363) Total operating revenues 191,738,504 Non-operating activities, net (11,644,096)

Total change in net assets (15,904,459) Net assets, beginning of the year 175,399,068

Net assets, end of the year 159,494,609

The financial information above is presented for convenience purposes only. While the financial information was extracted from supplementary information in the audited financial statements, the financial information should not be relied on. A copy of the printed financial statements is available upon request.

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