“My wife Pam and I are more committed than ever to helping NPR and public radio achieve long-term financial stability, particularly at a time when journalism is under economic and political pressures,” he said.

In a note to staff, Mohn said that he and his wife plan to make a $10 million contribution to that effort themselves. Mohn plans to move on to the newly created position of “president emeritus” and lead NPR’s fundraising efforts in advance of the 50th anniversary of its launch in 2020. National Public Radio CEO Jarl Mohn will step down in June at the conclusion of his five-year term leading the company, NPR revealed in a press release Tuesday. Editors then noticed that several other Kael expressions from her other reviews also appeared in Covert’s review of “ Nine,” including “archaic big-musical circus, Covert’s plagiarism came to the attention of the Star Tribune when a reader pointed out that the phrase “self-glorifying masochistic mush” was used in both Covert’s 2009 review of the musical “ Nine” but also first appeared in a review from Pauline Kael in 1974. Colin Covert, who had been a staff writer with the paper for over 30 years, was found in an investigation to have used the unique language of other critics in his own movie reviews, Star Tribune editor Rene Sanchez and managing editor Suki Dardarian wrote in a statement. A film critic for the Minneapolis Star Tribune has resigned from his post after editors discovered that he had plagiarized the work of other critics from as far back as 2009 and as recently as Nov.

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