Laura Ruth Walker (born November 19, 1957) is an American executive and current President of Bennington College. From 1995 to 2019, Walker was President and CEO of New York Public Radio (NYPR), a nonprofit media organization that operates WNYC, WNYC Studios, classical WQXR-FM, the website Gothamist, New Jersey Public Radio, and The Jerome L. Greene Performance Space.[1] The organization produces programs for local and national audiences, including The Brian Lehrer Show, Radiolab, More Perfect, On The Media, Nancy, The New Yorker Radio Hour, Trump, Inc., Death, Sex & Money, Snap Judgment, Here’s the Thing with Alec Baldwin, All Of It, The Takeaway, Caught, The United States of Anxiety, Aria Code, Carnegie Hall Live, and 2 Dope Queens, reaching an average audience of 23.4 million people each month.[2][3] New York Public Radio received ten George Foster Peabody Awards and five Alfred I. duPont awards during her tenure.[4][5]
- ^ http://www.wnyc.org/people/laura-walker/ New York Public Radio, Laura Walker, Executive Biography
- ^ http://www.wnyc.org/people/laura-walker/ | New York Public Radio, Laura Walker, Executive Biography
- ^ http://www.wnyc.org/annualreportfy2012 | New York Public Radio Fiscal Year 2012 Annual Report
- ^ "The Peabody Awards". www.peabodyawards.com. Retrieved Apr 7, 2021.
- ^ "The Alfred I. DuPont-Columbia University Awards | Columbia Journalism School". Archived from the original on 2017-12-22. Retrieved 2020-05-18.