On Oct. 1 in the Newman Center for Performing Arts, Jarl Mohn, President and CEO of National Public Radio (NPR), presented for Daniels College of Business’ Fall 2015 Voices of Experience speaker series. According to their website, “The Voices of Experience speaker series at the Daniels College of Business brings CEOs and significant leaders into our community to share the lessons learned from their triumphs, mistakes and decisions as they navigated through their leadership careers.”

According to the Voices of Experience website, NPR’s strategy is to inform the public by working with public radio stations throughout the nation. NPR also sees 32 million people visiting its site every month.

The fall Voices of Experience  event consisted of Mohn discussing his hisvtory and role at NPR. He explained how the idea of news has transformed and how important that is for NPR.

“On network television, the evening news used to be the big phenomenon. You sit down with everybody at six o’clock or six-thirty and watch the news every evening,” said Mohn. He believes it survived because smaller audiences, shorter newscasts, more lifestyle stories, little international news and a lot of research.

He continued to discuss how local news consists of crimes, fires and extreme weather, as well as the role of commercial radio today.

“In commercial radio, if there are news stations they tend to be short headline news that’s sensational and on commercial talk radio. It’s pretty much the same thing in cable news. Fox News has staked out the right, MSNBC has staked out the left and CNN has staked out the Indian Ocean.”

After his discussion, Mohn participated in a Q & A with a Daniels College of Business Professor, as well as with various members of the audience who had questions for him.

More information about Jarl Mohn can be found on NPR’s website.

Visit the Voices of Experience website for more information about Voices of Experience and its future speakers.