The head of NPR diversity retires while Trump aims at dei, the network faces investigation

The main diversity official of the NPR is withdrawing as the network looks at a federal investigation aiming to withdraw its funds, according to a report.

On Wednesday, Keith Woods, 66, said he was retired after 15 years in the public broadcaster – although President Trump aims for diversity programs and encourages companies to return controversial policies.

Woods presented the decision as his own, according to NPR. He said he began preparing for his retirement in 2023, but pushed him again after the Hellenistic hurricane destroyed his mampa, Fla.

“After more than four decades in journalism, I am happy that I can finally say the words,” I am retired, “he said in a statement issued by the network. “Although attacks on the work of diversity, equality and inclusion have received some of the joys from this moment.”

Woods took pain at a staff meeting Wednesday to assure colleagues that his departure was not related to the oscillating anti-dei environment, NPR said.

“I can make virtual carriages now,” said Woods, citing “a poor attack on the values ​​of diversity, equality, inclusion; the capitulation of the corporations around us; and the treatment of diversity, equality and inclusion as a virus whose carriers must disappear. This makes it look like something.”

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Large companies have rapidly withdrawn their diversity policies in the first few weeks and since Trump took office and signed an executive order banning inclusion programs across the federal level.

Trump also marked an order requiring federal contractors to prove that they do not promote dei measures.

PBS Public broadcaster last month closed his diversity office and fired two employees, citing the need to respect Trump’s order as the network relies on federal funds.

Meanwhile, NPR is in danger of losing its federal funds after Elon Musk, the head of the working group to reduce the cost of the government, has threatened to “destroy” the public station.

“She has to survive herself,” he wrote earlier this month in a post on X, his social media platform.

In January, FCC President Brendan Carr launched an investigation into the NPR and PBS for their alleged use of “forbidden trading advertising”, for which he argued that it could be sufficient reason to deduct their federal funds.

NPR said it receives about 1% of its funds from federal sources each year, and about 3% indirect from the stations. She said PBS receives 16% of its funds from the federal government.

Katherine Maher, NPR chief executive, said Woods’s pension does not mean that the network would abandon its goals of diversity.

“The NPR remains committed to supporting a diverse workforce, a welcoming workplace and the journalist serving an audience that is representative of the American public,” Maher wrote in a statement.

Woods joined the NPR in 2010 to guide the network corporate diversity strategy.

He trained employees in more than 30 stations of public associates, including from New York to Alaska.

Former NPR executive chief John Lansing, who died last year, was a strong supporter of diversity, equality and workplace programs.

But the former URI Berliner’s high business repayer, who resigned last year, slammed the extremely progressive network atmosphere in a fraud article for Free Press.

“It is true in the liberal tendency, but during most of my mandate here, an open -minded curious culture prevailed. We were Nerdy, but not on our knees, activists or insulting,” Berliner wrote last year.

“In recent years, however, this has changed. Today, those who hear NPR or read its internet coverage find something different: the distilled worldview of a very small segment of the American population,” he argued.