Nancy Barnes, who has run the newsroom at the public radio network for four years after a career in print journalism, most recently the Houston Chronicle, has been having spats with programming chief Anya Grundmann, who produces the podcasts that are driving the network more these days than radio (to the chagrin of the member stations and the news department, which feels the responsibility for NPR becoming a prime media player with ratings competitive with overwhelmingly conservative commercial news-talk radio) over keeping a firewall between news and everything else, and when her boss told her that there will probably be a "chief content officer" she will be reporting to instead of directly to him, she resigned on Friday:
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