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. Jarl Mohn takes a job that has been the center of turmoil for years. He comes from a radio disc jockey background and used to be known as Lee Masters before he became an exec at MTV and VH1 back when they were cutting edge.

Lee Masters? With a name like that, you just 

A news background? Not so much. He created "Talk Soup" on the E Network. And he was one of the early mainstream media execs to figure out that 

people would oneday watch TV on their cellphones.

hasn't had much luck with CEOs with news backgrounds.

 This will be NPR's seventh president/CEO in seven years.

He's also got a six-degrees-of-separation relationship to Minnesota. He's been chairman of Southern California Public Radio, which is owned by American Public Media.

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Not too many people apparently saw the new CEO of NPR coming. Jarl Mohn takes a job that has been the center of turmoil for years. He comes from a radio disc jockey background and used to be known as Lee Masters before he became an exec at MTV and VH1 back when they were…

Ex-disc jockey is now NPR’s new CEO

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