Christopher Chávez

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Programs/Content

How a public broadcasting system ‘asleep at the transmitter’ has overlooked Latino listeners

By Christopher Chávez, Associate Professor (School of Journalism and Communication at the University of Oregon) | December 8, 2021

Research “was designed to cultivate a listening audience that would support the network financially. This strategy has, in turn, informed how NPR conceives of, and pursues, its ideal Latinx listener.”

System/Policy

When one way of speaking dominates, who gets to tell their stories on public radio?

By Christopher Chávez, Associate Professor (School of Journalism and Communication at the University of Oregon) | June 25, 2020

A journalism school professor argues that NPR’s emphasis on unaccented English “undermines NPR’s original mission of engaging listeners civically.”