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History of public media

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Drive to survive: The 'brightest and darkest time' at NPR  

By Lisa Napoli, Author, "Susan, Linda, Nina & Cokie: The Extraordinary Story of the Founding Mothers of NPR" | March 27, 2023

Forty years ago, NPR was facing another financial challenge — one that threatened its very existence.

New Deal docudramas provide ‘missing link’ in history of educational radio

How digging through archives brought the story of NPR's 'Founding Mothers' to life

How public broadcasting overcame early setbacks to become a national institution

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

Rewind: The Roots of Public Media

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

By Andy Lanset, Director (New York Public Radio Archives) | October 31, 2019

The New York station may not have survived the Great Depression without help from the federal government.

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History of public media

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

By Braeden Waddell, Editorial Intern | October 30, 2019

Videos, photos and memorabilia from MPT’s past programming are on display at the University of Maryland.

History of public media

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

By Mary Myers | September 30, 2019

During his 35 years at Indiana State Teachers College — now Indiana State University — Clarence “Doc” Morgan also trained scores of future broadcasters.

Rewind: The Roots of Public Media

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

By Dolores Inés Casillas, Associate Professor (University of California, Santa Barbara) and Monica De La Torre, Assistant Professor (Arizona State University) | July 11, 2019

A group of bilingual radio stations founded in the late 1970s “helped distinguish Spanish-language and bilingual broadcasting as a form of advocacy.”

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.”

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.

History of public media

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.”

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