NPR To Invest Additional $15 Million in NPR News

NPR has announced a major expansion of its news operation, investing $15 million over the next three years to add reporters, editors, producers and managers, and to open new domestic and international bureaus. The expansion plan, which covers 2004 through 2007, will be funded in part by interest from approximately $225 million in bequests NPR received from the late philanthropist Joan B. Kroc.

I wonder how much of it would be invested online, in bringing more audio programs online, and make it downloadable. Among the only mention I could find in this release is that NPR will establish a radio and internet news training program…

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