Bobby Carter, host and series producer of NPR’s Tiny Desk Concerts, will deliver a lecture titled “Tiny Desk, Big Challenges” as part of Washington and Lee University’s 81st Institute on Media Ethics at 5:45 p.m. on March 12 in Northen Auditorium in Leyburn Library.

The lecture is free and open to the public and is sponsored by W&L’s Knight Program in Media Ethics and the Department of Journalism and Mass Communications.

Carter will be in conversation with Eric Deggans, W&L’s Knight Chair of Journalism and Media Ethics, about the ethics of maintaining one of NPR’s most vibrant brands. They will discuss Carter’s favorite concerts, how he came to assume control of the Tiny Desk franchise after the retirement of founder Bob Boilen and how he maintains and grows one of the biggest online hits in NPR’s history.