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After 50 years, NPR upholds public broadcasting's founding values

By Bill Siemering, Senior Fellow (Wyncote Foundation) and Josh Shepperd, Assistant Professor (Catholic University) | February 26, 2020

NPR was incorporated Feb. 26, 1970, marking a new stage in the growth of a public media system rooted in education.

How the Works Progress Administration played a critical role in WNYC's history

glass doors to exhibit

New exhibit takes visitors behind the scenes of Maryland Public Television's 50-year history

With help from Peter Rabbit and fairy princesses, a pioneering educator showed how radio could teach

Looking back on the lesser-known histories of 'Chicano Public Radio'

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Current Crossword: ‘Tribute’

By Brian Herrick, Freelance Contributor | October 4, 2019

We can’t tell you much about our latest crossword, other than: Give it a try!

Rewind: The Roots of Public Media

How France’s national broadcaster bolstered U.S. public radio in its formative years

By Derek W. Vaillant, Professor of Communication and History (University of Michigan) | June 5, 2019

From the 1940s to the 1970s, dozens of U.S. public radio stations featured French cultural programming that “let us know that the French people like us and vice versa.”

Rewind: The Roots of Public Media

In 1970, riots and tear gas couldn’t sideline Ohio’s WOSU — but its licensee’s president did

By Tom Rieland, GM (WOSU Public Media) | May 14, 2019

“The tone of operations was business as usual in virtually every sense despite the strong waves of tear gas through the building.”

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Try our first pubmedia-themed crossword puzzle

By Brian Herrick, Freelance Contributor | February 22, 2019

Look out, Will Shortz, there’s a new puzzle master in town.

A DJ looks back on 50 years on jazz radio in the nation’s capital

By Rusty Hassan, Host (WPFW) | February 12, 2019

Rusty Hassan has seen shows and stations come and go during his long career on Washington, D.C., airwaves, and he’s still at it.

Rewind: The Roots of Public Media

‘The World Is Yours’: How the travelogue shaped early public broadcasting

By Katie Day Good, Assistant Professor (Department of Media, Journalism and Film, Miami University of Ohio) | December 14, 2018

The globetrotting quality of public media is neither new nor politically neutral and has roots in the earliest days of American broadcasting.

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Read this shockingly prescient 1970 mission statement for the precursor to NPR’s ‘Fresh Air’

By Adam Ragusea, Former Host, "The Pub" | July 9, 2018

In a previously unpublished grant application, NPR founding father Bill Siemering proposed a show on WBFO in Buffalo, N.Y., “growing out of the need for cross-cultural communication and capitalizing on the unique characteristics of public radio.”

Rewind: The Roots of Public Media

The survival of public broadcasting’s legacy has long been part of its mission

By Laura Schnitker, Audiovisual Archivist and Curator of Mass Media & Culture (Special Collections at the University of Maryland Libraries) | March 1, 2018

The National Public Broadcasting Archives at the University of Maryland reflect an inherent dedication to preservation.

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How President Johnson set the stage for passage of the Public Broadcasting Act

By Joseph Califano Jr. | May 5, 2017

Only eight months after LBJ called on lawmakers to support his bill creating CPB, the measure passed Congress with overwhelming bipartisan support.

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