NPR C.E.O. Jarl Mohn Apologizes to Staff, Goes on Leave
On the Friday edition of the program “1A,” Mary Louise Kelly, an NPR correspondent, said it had been “a brutal week in the NPR newsroom.”
During an all-staff meeting on Friday, Mr. Mohn said he had not taken warnings about Mr. Oreskes seriously enough, according to an NPR report.
“The answer is that it did not.”
He reiterated that position later that afternoon during an interview on NPR’s “All Things Considered.” What had led him to put Mr. Oreskes on leave and then ask for his resignation, Mr. Mohn said, was a new case involving Mr. Oreskes’s interactions with a current employee
that was reported to NPR after the news articles were published.
Jarl Mohn, the chief executive of NPR, said on Tuesday that he would take a leave of absence because of health problems.
Regretfully, the hypertension has returned to a dangerous level.”
“I am deeply sorry to the people I hurt,” Mr. Oreskes said in a statement last week.
“Some have asked me if it took published news reports for us to take action,” Mr. Mohn said in the memo.