dollars, and forging into the digital age with online streams and podcasts. Much of this growth has occurred under Ken Stern, NPR's chief executive, who joined as executive vice president in 1999." One of Stern's final acts as NPR CEO was his March 5, 2008 announcement with Washington, D.C. Mayor Adrian Fenty that NPR would develop a new headquarters to be built a few blocks away from NPR's current location. The next day, March 6, 2008, the NPR Board announced that Stern would be stepping down from his role as Chief Executive Officer. NPR suggested that he was forced out due to clashes with local stations over NPR's increased streaming on digital platforms, which local stations claimed reduced their donations. Stern made $1,319,541 in 2008. Writing In 2013 Ken Stern's book With Charity for All: Why Charities are Failing and a Better Way to Give was published by Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group. His book discusses the problems in the not for profit charity sector, and appeals to donors for more evaluation and consideration in their decision making, in order to provide support for upcoming best of class charities, so that these organizations may survive and flourish in a sector controlled by large, traditional charities with less than optimal performance. He points out that although this sector accounts for a fast-growing ten percent of U.S. economic activity with over one trillion dollars in yearly donations, it has very little transparency, accountability, or oversight. He was interviewed with a focus on his book by Ken Berger, CEO of Charity Navigator. The interview was televised on CSPAN's BookTV series Afterwords in March, 2013. Ken also wrote the book Republican Like Me: How I Left the Liberal Bubble and Learned to Love the Right. In the book he chronicles his journey interviewing conservatives from all backgrounds and ends up becoming an independent voter. References External links Biography from NPR American political writers NPR personalities American radio executives Haverford College alumni Yale Law School alumni Living people American chief executives in the media industry Year of birth missing (living people)