Recording Academy President Neil Portnow Will Step Down

Neil Portnow, president and CEO of the Recording Academy, the organization that oversees the Grammy Awards, announced that he will step down at the end of his contract next summer.Portnow did not give a specific reason for stepping down. In a statement released by the organization, the executive, who has led the group for 16 years, said, “When I had the honor of being selected to lead this great organization in 2002, I vowed that on my watch, for the first time in our history, we would hav