NPR host ‘temporarily’ steps down while husband works to re-elect Obama
National Public Radio’s Michele Norris, who co-hosts All Things Considered, is stepping down “temporarily” from her post as her husband works to re-elect President Barack Obama.Former Keystone pipeline lobbyist hired by Obama campaign - latimes.com
Norris’ husband, Broderick Johnson, worked for Massachusetts Democratic Sen. John Kerry’s 2004 presidential campaign, and for Obama’s 2008 White House bid. Norris did not step down in 2008, but did recuse herself from political coverage in 2004.
Johnson will be a “senior adviser” for the Obama 2012 campaign, according to an internal message Norris sent her colleagues. (SEE ALSO: NPR host fired from syndicated program after doubling as ‘Occupy DC’ spokeswoman)
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Apparently Norris will be continuing to produce some news content for the taxpayer-subsidized radio network — just not 2012 political coverage. “I will be leaving the host chair at the end of this week, but I’m not going far,” Norris adds in her memo to staff.
President Obama's reelection campaign has hired a former lobbyist for the controversial Keystone XL oil pipeline as a top adviser.NPR : Michele Norris to Co-Host All Things Considered
The campaign said that Broderick Johnson, founder and former principal of the communications firm the Collins Johnson Group, would serve as a senior adviser for the campaign. Before founding the firm this spring, he worked for the powerhouse lobbying firm, Bryan Cave LLP, where his clients included Microsoft, Comcast and TransCanada, the company planning to build the $7-billion pipeline to carry crude from Alberta’s oil sands to the Texas Gulf Coast.
Oct. 10, 2002 -- Michele Norris, an award-winning journalist with nearly two decades of experience as both a broadcast and print news reporter, will join veteran host Robert Siegel and newly appointed co-host Melissa Block as a regular co-host of All Things Considered.
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