Broadcasting Board of Governors press release, 16 Jan 2013: "The Broadcasting Board of Governors announced today that distinguished journalist and broadcast executive Kevin Klose will be the Acting President and CEO of Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty. Acting in its capacity as RFE/RL’s corporate board of directors, the Board voted unanimously to ask Klose to take on the position for up to one year, starting January 26. ... Klose was president of NPR from 1998 to 2008, and was named President Emeritus in 2008. Before joining NPR, he was president of RFE/RL from 1994 to 1997, overseeing its relocation from Munich to Prague. In 1997-98, he directed the International Broadcasting Bureau at the U.S. Information Agency. Prior to this, he was an editor and reporter for The Washington Post for 25 years, including stints as Moscow bureau chief, city editor and deputy national editor. A tenured professor at the Philip Merrill College of Journalism at the University of Maryland, Klose served as dean of the journalism college from April 2009 to July 2012. ... The Board plans to engage a professional search firm during the coming months to identify and hire a successor president."

University of Maryland Merrill College, 16 Jan 2013, Sean Mussenden: "Merrill College Dean Lucy Dalglish said the Broadcasting Board of Governors made a terrific choice in asking Klose to return to Prague to help Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty through these difficult times."

National Review, 17 Jan 2013, John O'Sullivan, former RFE/RL executive editor: "He is ... a very comfortable fit for the job description I suggested two weeks ago for the next RFERL president — which is to say, 'someone experienced editorially and internationally but detached from recent BBG politics (former NPR president Kevin Klose would be ideal), [who] can determine what went wrong in the course of putting it right.' So I can’t very well not welcome his appointment; my reputation is riding on it."