Kevin Klose

Kevin Klose

Kevin Klose (b. Toronto, Ontario, Canada, c. 1940) is the president of National Public Radio (NPR), the United States' largest nonprofit radio outlet for news and cultural programming. He has served in this position since December 1998, and also served as the organization's chief executive officer from 1998 to 1999. [http://www.npr.org/about/press/981111.klose.html] [http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=87968053]

Klose grew up in Red Hook, New York. His parents, Woody and Virginia Taylor Klose, were radio producers and writers during the 1930s and 1940s.

Prior to his tenure at National Public Radio, Klose was for 25 years an editor and reporter "The Washington Post". From 1994 to 1997, he served as president of Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty (RFE/RL).

Some criticize the choice of Kevin Klose to be the head of NPR because he "used to be the director of all major worldwide US government propaganda dissemination broadcast media including VOA, Radio Liberty, Radio Free Europe, Radio Free Asia, Worldnet Television and the anti-Castro Radio/TV Marti." [cite news
last=Lenderman
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Klose is a graduate of Harvard University, having received a Bachelor of Arts degree, cum laude, in 1962. He has authored five books. He serves on the Advisory Board of the University of Southern California Center on Public Diplomacy.

He lives in Washington, D.C..

References

External links

* [http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=2101415 Biography at National Public Radio site]
* [http://www.npr.org/about/press/981111.klose.html NPR announcement of Klose's installation] (11 November 1998)
* [http://www.eurozine.com/articles/2004-07-23-klose-en.html Interview from "Eurozine"]


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