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Peace Corps alumni, drug safety groups press NPR to release Daniel Zwerdling’s investigative report
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The two-part story on the anti-malarial drug mefloquine had been scheduled to air in late November 2017.
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The two-part story on the anti-malarial drug mefloquine had been scheduled to air in late November 2017.
“I don’t want to see confidence in a broken system that allowed dangerous behavior to continue,” said one producer.
Morgan Lewis conducted a two-month investigation into how NPR management responded to harassment allegations against the former news chief.
At least two NPR staffers reported Zwerdling to human resources in November, according to sources close to the investigation.
NPR has promised veteran reporter Daniel Zwerdling another year
of work, but colleagues are still asking what management’s decision
to eliminate his old job signals about the network’s journalistic
priorities. Zwerdling will contribute NPR reports to PBS’s Now with Bill
Moyers, taking a job previously held by Emily Harris. Harris
is NPR’s new Berlin correspondent. Zwerdling can move into another
job if the Now partnership ends, but he says the grant-funded
Science Desk opening pays 25 percent less than his current salary. NPR’s Oct.
Zwerdling hopes his bosses will reverse their decision to end his job — and so do dozens of colleagues.