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NPR's Nancy Barnes on pandemic coverage and Eric and Wendy Schmidt's big new donation

Category: Society & Culture
Duration: 00:27:49
Publish Date: 2020-05-21 23:05:53
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Nancy Barnes, NPR's senior VP of news and editorial director, talks with Brian Stelter about the recent $4.7 million gift from Eric and Wendy Schmidt. The funds will bolster reporting hubs in California and the Midwest. The gift is "specifically geared towards our efforts to grow local journalism," Barnes says. She also discusses NPR's pandemic coverage, and how the public radio network is faring financially. "The budget hit is significant," she says. "It's almost exclusively related to Covid-19."

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