Development
NPR will distribute $1.2 million to stations, but not everyone is thrilled
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Each NPR member station will receive at least $2,500 next month.
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Each NPR member station will receive at least $2,500 next month.
A new book examines the Philadelphia station’s efforts to address structural racism and how a newsroom leader’s departure affected those initiatives.
APT will distribute “The Niagara Movement,” a one-hour documentary from Lawrence Hott and WNED, for national broadcast.
Young people’s voices and perspectives are often left out of news coverage. One way to address that? Pass the mic.
In an era where the “easy money” is gone, celebrity sluggers are beyond reach, and commercial outfits are pulling back, public radio organizations can win by leaning into data and ideas.
The next season looks at L.A. as a “prismatic reflection point” in artists’ development, says producer Myke Dodge Weiskopf.
Host Jeremy Hobson returns to his roots to highlight America’s geographic, political and ideological middle.
“Marfa Public Radio Puts You to Sleep” featured somnolent readings of the Public Broadcasting Act, NPR’s style guide and more.
Radio stations, however, persist in showing a “consistent and concerning downward trend” in new donor acquisition.
Public radio “might not have been if the Public Radio Study had not been done.”
Only the percentage of Native American staffers at stations declined since 2022, according to new CPB data on CSG grantees.
Deepa Shivaram is now a White House correspondent for NPR.