Jarl Mohn To CEO At NPR

Jarl Mohn, currently seated on the board of directors at several media organizations, including Scripps Networks Interactive and Web analytics company ComScore, will be NPR’s new CEO. Mohn is slated to start work at NPR on July 1. Mohn worked as a radio disc jockey for about two decades before joining MTV as an executive in 1986. He later became president and CEO of E! Entertainment Television before moving on to other enterprises, including a stint on the board of XM Radio. Mohn will be NPR’s fifth permanent or acting CEO since January 2009, following a procession of executives who served relatively short tenures: (2009-2011), (2011-2013) and Paul Haaga Jr., who became the company’s interim CEO last fall. That span also includes former NPR general counsel Joyce Slocum, who served as acting CEO in 2011.