Teams at NPR

Coordinates enterprise-wide transformation initiatives by managing project roadmaps, timelines, milestones, dependencies, risks, deliverables, dashboards, and status reporting. The role connects cross-functional NPR and NPM teams, facilitates governance meetings, supports leadership, mitigates bottlenecks, and ensures initiatives remain on schedule across technical, financial, and station-relations stakeholders.

Legal externs support NPR’s Office of the General Counsel by conducting legal research, preparing memoranda, contracts, and other documents, participating in client and regulatory meetings, observing proceedings, and attending legal training. The role spans commercial, nonprofit tax, governance, technology, intellectual property, regulatory, constitutional, employment, and labor matters. Applicants must be current law students and secure academic credit for fall or spring placements.

Legal externs assist senior counsel with copyright research, fair use determinations, audio and video content evaluations, permissions agreements, licensing assessments, and rights management. The role is a full-time, summer, for-credit or stipend-eligible opportunity for current second- or third-year law students with coursework and knowledge in copyright law and fair use.