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      NPR reviews

      3.9

      69% would recommend to a friend

      (284 total reviews)

      Katherine Maher

      Not enough data to show CEO approval

      53% positive business outlook

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      4.3

      Culture & values

      4.2

      Diversity & inclusion

      4.1

      Work/Life balance

      3.6

      Compensation and benefits

      3.6

      Career opportunities

      3.2

      Senior management

      NPR has an employee rating of 3.9 out of 5 stars, based on 284 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The NPR employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Media & Communication industry (3.7 stars).

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      284 reviews
      2.0
      Dec 8, 2008

      NPR does not live up to its PR

      Producer
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      Pros

      NPR practices high quality journalism and has the best professional standards in radio. Salary and benefits are commensurate with positions. Employees in all departments take great pride in their work. .

      Cons

      NPR is slow to implement change due to a heavily bureaucratic culture. Senior managers seem more concerned with creating the appearance of change rather than implementing real change. Department heads tend to be authoritarian and unyielding. Everyone seems more concerned about their own department than the network as a whole. Lack of coordinated focus. NPR preaches diversity, but as a workplace it is not friendly toward people from minority groups, who tend to be marginalized or written off.

      4.0
      Oct 1, 2008

      Intellectually stimulating place to work.

      Corporate communications manager
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      Business Outlook

      Pros

      The satisfaction of working at a place that does such high quality journalism and music/cultural programming. (You get to listen to NPR all day!) Also, the nature of its "product" makes it an extremely interesting place to work. You learn something every day and you're working with very smart, enthusiastic people who could be working elsewhere and making more money. There's a real dedication to National Public Radio's mission and to quality journalism in every department -- not just the ones actually creating the broadcasts. Folks in human resources or legal, for example, are just as committed to the organization.

      Cons

      There's a lot of intrafamily squabbling in public broadcasting, which can make it hard to get things done sometimes. You really have to figure out the relationships not just at NPR but at local stations as well. What is good for NPR is not always what's good for local stations and so stations fight NPR quite a bit (they fought NPR having a web site, for example, out of fear that listeners would just listen to NPR programming online instead of tuning into a station. But online, of course, was where media was headed and all they accomplished was painfully delaying the inevitable.)

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