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Katherine Roberts Maher (born April 18, 1983) is an American businesswoman. She became the chief executive officer (CEO) and president of National Public Radio (NPR) in March 2024, succeeding John Lansing.
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โGo organize your communities. Mobilize. Vote.โ
โIn my experience, it is perfectly possible to have opinions and also produce valuable, fact-based information for the world.โ
โBig organizations do good work. So do small organizations working with specific communities. Often, they work together. Please support both for #Beirutโ
โHolistic histories and analyses of power and influence are a threat to simplistic narratives and can be an accelerant for understanding, empathy, and justice.โ
โWe must work together to create a safe, inclusive culture, where everyone feels welcome, that their contributions are valued, and that their perspective matters.โ
โI truly cannot wait to be sardined back on BART/MTA with all you stinky wonderful mouth breathers, my personal space is yours, read over my shoulder, I truly don't care, I love you all.โ
โChurchill is my favorite example to use with western audiences about the nature of truth in popular histories. To millions, a liberating hero. To yet millions of others, oppressor and genocidaire.โ
โLowkey excited about all the innovation in videoconferencing. We went from standard-awful to Brady Bunch to multi-grid to Together in about 3 months. Keep it up.โ
โTil that LBJ telling MLK to โmake me do itโ on civil rights is apocryphal. Funny, because Iโve definitely said that in my work at Wikimedia, though I was encouraging community activists to keep the pressure on for change at a movement level.โ
โIn 8 hours Iโll put on a mask, leave my home, head to the airport, fly for 6 hours, quarantine for 14 days, and hopefully by mid-July Iโll be able to see my mom. I would not be going if there were not urgent family issues, but I wonโt lie: I am afraid.โ
โItโs never exactly a good time to step away -- transitions always have some rough edges -- but itโs always best to do so when the organization is strong, and before youโve overstayed your welcome. The movement is in a good, strong place. Our communities are growing, our readership is tooโ
โItโs easy to forget how much has changed during how dark these past four years have been. But to hear the Democratic candidate for the VP of the United States speak about structural racism from the convention podium is unprecedented.โ
โWhen it became clear that SARS-CoV-2, or simply, the latest coronavirus, was spreading globally and likely to become a pandemic, we took it seriously. Our responsibility is to keep Wikipedia online and available for the world, especially in moments of crisis. A world that is changing requires changing how we work.โ
โThe COVID-19 epidemic is something that makes clear our global human interconnectedness and the responsibility we have to one another. We donโt have precedent for its challenges, but we do know that our best response relies on the sort of global empathy, cooperation, and community building that sits at the heart of this organization.โ
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Katherine Maher on COVID-19 pandemic in the United States
โWeโve seen a surge in interest in coronavirus. What weโre expecting is weโll focus our staff on shoring up the resiliency of the platform. Instead of rolling out a new update to iOS, weโre focused on presenting critical coronavirus information in the best way possible.โ
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The Women of Wikipedia Are Writing Themselves Into History, Jenny Singer, on Katherine Maher
โThe women behind Wikipedia believe it will continue to be a force for good, despite all they have weathered as its custodians. Maher sees Wikipedia as tasked with โensuring that the general public has access to a baseline of context and information to be able to interpret the dayโs events.โ Right now, Americans have a general skepticism, not just of the media but of any kind of authority, she points out. Wikipedia, for all of the pedantry and nerd-outs that go on during late night edit-a-thons, isnโt pretentious. โItโs very open about the fact that itโs a best understanding of the world as we know it, and we make mistakes,โ she says.โ
End of the Maher era at Wikipedia, Felix Salmon, on Katherine Maher
โKatherine Maher, the Wikimedia Foundation's CEO, will step down as of April 15, she tells Axios, leaving the nonprofit in a vastly stronger position than she found it when she joined in 2014.. Wikipedia is growing to become the most global and trusted source of knowledge in the world. Its base of active editors is rising, its number of women editors has increased by 30% just in the past year, and it has upgraded not only its website but also its app, which is now available for feature phones as well as smart phones... Financially, the Wikimedia Foundation now has an endowment of more than $90 million, and has doubled its annual budget to an estimated $140 million in 2021. It's hard to think of any other tech nonprofit that has been remotely as successful... One area that Wikimedia has been particularly successful is in garnering trust... Driving the trust: Maher is proud of her new Universal Code of Conduct, but also credits the diversity of Wikipedia's editors as a key ingredient creating trust in its content.โ
About Katherine Maher
Katherine Roberts Maher (born April 18, 1983) is an American businesswoman. She became the chief executive officer (CEO) and president of National Public Radio (NPR) in March 2024, succeeding John Lansing.