Donald R. Quayle (July 27, 1930 – April 16, 2015) was an American broadcast journalist who was the first president of National Public Radio (NPR), from 1970 to 1973.
[3] Quayle managed a radio station at Ohio State and, from 1960 to 1962, WGBH in Boston.
[3][4] Quayle was named a member of the board of directors of the Corporation for Public Broadcasting in 1968.
[6] In 1976 he was the senior vice president for programming at the Corporation for Public Broadcasting.
[8] On May 7, 2010, Quayle received an honorary doctorate of humane letters degree from Utah State University in recognition of his long career of significant contributions to public broadcasting in the United States.