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Jarl Mohn, 62 year old Jarl Mohn is the new President and CEO of NPR. He'll begin in July and succeed Paul Haaga who has been acting chief executive officer and president since last year. Mohn said, "This is not a job for me. It is a mission. I love public radio and NPR. It is a national treasure and more important now than ever. I want to make sure the staff of NPR, the Member Stations and the others who make it happen have everything they need to do their best work." Mohn is currently chairman of Southern California Public Radio and was founding president and CEO of Liberty Digital and president and chief executive officer of E! Entertainment Television.
Prior to Liberty Digital, Mohn created E! Entertainment Television and served as President and Chief Executive Officer from January 1990 to December 1998. He was Executive Vice President and General Manager of MTV and VH1, from 1986 to 1990. He began his career as a disc jockey in 1967 and was on the air on WNBC-AM in New York in the 1970s. Most recently he has divided him time between being a corporate director and advisor to a number of media companies, making direct early stage angel and seed investments in digital media/technology ventures. He and his wife Pamela created The Mohn Family Foundation in 2000.
