{"id":1781,"date":"2011-09-03T15:21:25","date_gmt":"2011-09-03T19:21:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/?p=1781"},"modified":"2011-09-03T15:21:25","modified_gmt":"2011-09-03T19:21:25","slug":"npr-voice-of-americas-role-in-internet-age","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2011\/09\/npr-voice-of-americas-role-in-internet-age\/","title":{"rendered":"NPR: Voice Of America&#8217;s Role In Internet Age"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/a999voalogo_2050081722-26491.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-485\" title=\"voa logo\" src=\"http:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/a999voalogo_2050081722-26491.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"204\" height=\"109\" \/><\/a>(Source: <a title=\"NPR\" href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/2011\/09\/03\/140163727\/voice-of-americas-role-in-internet-age?sc=tw\" target=\"_blank\">NPR<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p><em>Host Scott Simon speaks with David Ensor, who took over directorship of Voice of America last month. A longtime journalist for NPR, CNN and ABC News, his most recent post was in Afghanistan, where he was director for communications and public diplomacy at the U.S. Embassy in Kabul.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"NPR\" href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/2011\/09\/03\/140163727\/voice-of-americas-role-in-internet-age?sc=tw#commentBlock\" target=\"_blank\">Click here to listen to full story on NPR&#8217;s website<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(Source: NPR) Host Scott Simon speaks with David Ensor, who took over directorship of Voice of America last month. A longtime journalist for NPR, CNN and ABC News, his most recent post was in Afghanistan, where he was director for communications and public diplomacy at the U.S. Embassy in Kabul. Click here to listen to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[56],"tags":[406,569,20,570,10,402,182],"class_list":["post-1781","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-broadcasters","tag-bbg","tag-david-ensor","tag-npr","tag-scott-simon","tag-voa","tag-voa-cuts","tag-voice-of-america"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pn3uc-sJ","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":12924,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2015\/04\/voa-director-david-ensor-steps-down\/","url_meta":{"origin":1781,"position":0},"title":"VOA director David Ensor steps down","author":"Thomas","date":"April 8, 2015","format":false,"excerpt":"(Source: NY Times) David Ensor, who as director of the Voice of America has presided over significant growth in the news agency\u2019s audience despite budget cuts, announced Tuesday that he was stepping down. 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