--- title: "NPR CEO to retire at end of 2023, Trans Journalists Association is expanding its resources" description: "The Briefing is your weekly update on the world of news and information" date: "2023-09-07" authors: - name: "Jacob Liedke" url: "https://www.pewresearch.org/newsletter/the-briefing/npr-ceo-to-retire-at-end-of-2023-trans-journalists-association-is-expanding-its-resources/" --- # NPR CEO to retire at end of 2023, Trans Journalists Association is expanding its resources [![](https://www.pewresearch.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/prc-logo.png?w=640){.aligncenter width=348}](https://www.pewresearch.org/prc-logo/) --- September 7, 2023 # The Briefing **☀️ Happy Thursday!** *The Briefing updates you on what’s happened and what’s coming in the news and information world – and what our data tells us about it. Not a subscriber yet? [**Sign up here!**](https://www.pewresearch.org/sign-up-for-the-briefing/)* **In today's email:** - **Top story:** NPR CEO to retire at the end of the year - **Under the radar:** The Trans Journalists Association is expanding its resources - **Looking ahead:** Judge to hear arguments in U.S. et al. v. Google next week - **Chart of the week:** How closely Americans are following news about legislation affecting transgender people 🔥 **Top story** John Lansing, president and CEO of NPR, said on Tuesday that he [plans to retire at the end of the year.](https://thehill.com/homenews/media/4189967-npr-ceo-retiring-at-end-of-year/) Lansing first joined as president and chief executive in 2019 after running the U.S. Agency for Global Media. According to [a recent Pew Research Center analysis](https://www.pewresearch.org/journalism/fact-sheet/public-broadcasting/) on the state of public broadcasting, the average weekly listenership of the top 20 NPR-affiliated stations (by listenership) dropped by 10% from 2021 to 2022. At the same time, NPR’s total operating revenue at the national level in 2022 was $316.7 million, an increase of 8% from the previous year. - 🕵️ **Under the radar** - The **Trans Journalists Association** is [expanding its resources to address "misinformation deluges"](https://www.poynter.org/ethics-trust/2023/trans-journalists-association-training-new-style-guide-board-members/) - How [smaller specialized newsrooms](https://werd.io/2023/building-a-wide-news-commons) could create a **“wide news commons”** - Myanmar journalist [sentenced to 20 years](https://apnews.com/article/myanmar-press-freedom-cyclone-photojournalist-203230805b85e6fcef056a178bed23e2) for **reporting on cyclone’s aftermath** - **Residents at a home for the elderly** weigh in on [journalism’s obsession with the age of political leaders](https://www.cjr.org/the_feature/old-age-politics-coverage.php) - A look at [270 independent news outlets](https://www.lionpublishers.com/canada-oasis/) in **Canada’s local news ecosystem** - How a journalist [uses Instagram broadcasts](https://www.niemanlab.org/2023/08/meet-the-journalist-using-instagram-broadcasts-to-make-sense-of-argentinas-economy/) to make sense of **Argentina’s economy** 📅 **Looking ahead** Next Tuesday, a judge in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia [will begin considering arguments in U.S. et al. v. Google](https://www.nytimes.com/2023/09/06/technology/modern-internet-first-monopoly-trial-us-google-dominance.html?partner=slack&smid=sl-share). The case, which is the federal government's first monopoly trial of the modern internet era, focuses on whether Google has illegally used its search business to stifle competition. According to a [2022 Pew Research Center survey](https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2022/05/13/support-for-more-regulation-of-tech-companies-has-declined-in-u-s-especially-among-republicans/), 44% of Americans think major technology companies should be regulated more than they are now, down from 56% the previous year. The share of Americans who say they want *less *government regulation of major technology companies roughly doubled in this time, from about one-in-ten in previous years to one-in-five in 2022. 📊 **Chart of the week** The Trans Journalists Association is trying to address news coverage of legislation affecting transgender individuals. As of spring 2022, 8% of U.S. adults were following news about bills in several states related to people who are transgender extremely or very closely, [a Pew Research Center survey found](https://www.pewresearch.org/social-trends/2022/06/28/americans-complex-views-on-gender-identity-and-transgender-issues/#most-say-they-re-not-paying-close-attention-to-news-about-bills-related-to-transgender-people:~:text=all%20their%20life.%E2%80%9D-,Most%20say%20they%E2%80%99re%20not%20paying%20close%20attention%20to%20news%20about%20bills%20related%20to%20transgender%20people%C2%A0,-Many%20states%20are). An additional 24% said they were following these stories somewhat closely, while most (68%) were following just a little or not at all. Liberal Democrats were more likely than other groups to say they were engaged with news coverage of these bills. [![Chart showing that Liberal Democrats are more likely than other groups to be following news about bills related to trans people closely.](https://www.pewresearch.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/20/2023/09/image-1.png){.aligncenter width=323}](https://www.pewresearch.org/newsletter/the-briefing/the-briefing-2023-09-07/image-1-png-2/) --- *👋 That's all for this week. * The Briefing is compiled by Pew Research Center staff, including Naomi Forman-Katz, Jacob Liedke, Sarah Naseer, Christopher St. Aubin and Emily Tomasik. It is edited by Katerina Eva Matsa, Michael Lipka and Mark Jurkowitz, and copy edited by David Kent. *Do you like this newsletter? 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