NPR's Adjunct Workforce

By John Warner. As reported at the Washington Post, between 20 and 22 percent of the workers in the National Public Radio newsroom are classified as “temporary.” 
The “temps” are not told how long their assignments will last, do not know their salaries, who they are reporting to, or even what position they hold. Feedback from supervisors is rare and they  are “routinely overlooked in NPR’s recruiting efforts.”
These temps “do almost every important job in the newsroom.”
They pitch, assign, edit, report, produce, book guests, write the questions for the guests, essentially anything and everything a salaried staffer would do. More...