Ballmer gives $80 million to NPR, with strings attached

Connie Ballmer, woman of erstwhile Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer and co-founder of the Ballmer Group, has given $80 cardinal to NPR. That's astir 7 years' worthy of authorities backing ($11.2m) after Trump and Congress chopped funds for nationalist media, but lone a fraction of NPR's afloat yearly fund of $300 million. NPR whitethorn inactive chopped jobs due to the fact that the wealth has strings attached.

The wealth is specifically "to enactment the integer innovation that is indispensable to gathering the needs and serving the interests of nationalist media audiences wherever they are and whenever they question information," according to a property release. NPR writer David Folkenflik writes …

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