The last time the New York public radio station WNYC had a new boss, in 1995, Rudolph W. Giuliani was mayor, and the station had an audience of about one million listeners a month and an operating budget of $8 million.

Since then, WNYC’s parent organization, New York Public Radio, has grown into a public media powerhouse, with a budget of $97 million, nationally syndicated radio programs and dozens of podcasts, including hits like “2 Dope Queens” and “Trump, Inc.” The organization says that it attracts 24 million people across its various broadcast and online properties.

And for the first time in nearly a quarter-century, New York Public Radio has a new leader. The nonprofit group announced on Wednesday that its new chief executive would be Goli Sheikholeslami, who has led Chicago Public Media, which owns the radio station WBEZ, since 2014, and is a former executive at The Washington Post and Condé Nast. She will start her position in New York in October.