Neal Shapiro, the CEO of WNET Group, the New York metro area’s public broadcasting company, is working to offset locally the $1.1 billion in cuts made by Congress and the Trump Administration to the Corporation for Public Broadcasting.
Neal Shapiro left very big and prestigious jobs at NBC News in 2007 to take over WNET. That was, of course, before the current administration took out its scalpel to take down anything with the words “public” or “culture” attached. It remains the most successful of all the NPR entities, but Shapiro admits,...
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