Alicia Shepard: Former NPR Ombudsman
Alicia "Lisa" Shepard, who served as the Ombudsman for National Public Radio in 2007-2011, has passed away at the age of 69. While Shepard was NPR's Ombuds, she became a focus of controversy when she defended the network's description of interrogation techniques used by the George W. Bush administration during the Iraq war. She later described her role as the "loneliest job in the newsroom." In 2011, she was the keynote speaker for the IOA conference. The balance of Shepard's career was as a journalist. (NYTimes.)
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