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CPB grant to NPR backs expanding foreign coverage
CPB has awarded a $500,000 grant to NPR to support the network’s international news coverage. The grant, announced at a March 26 awards ...NPR hires two reporters, WXXI news director rappels down 21 stories, and more…
Leila Fadel, Cairo bureau chief for the Washington Post, signs on as NPR’s Cairo-based correspondent in July. She covered the Iraq War for almost ...Click and Clack are checking out but will keep chortling in repeats
NPR announced June 8 that Tom and Ray Magliozzi, hosts of the popular and long-running Car Talk, will lay down their wrenches ...Reber leaves NPR; Arganbright, Appleby launch firm; and more…
CIR has hired ex-NPR investigative news head Susanne Reber. As senior coordinating editor for multiplatform projects and investigations for the nonprofit newsroom, Reber ...Underwriting drop leaves NPR with $2.6M shortfall
Facing an operating deficit of $2.6 million this fiscal year due to a shortfall in corporate sponsorship income, NPR is stepping up ...Bill Siemering’s ‘National Public Radio Purposes’, 1970
“National Public Radio will serve the individual: it will promote personal growth ...”Revamped ‘All Things Considered’ brings new sound to weekends
The weekend installment of NPR’s afternoon newsmagazine starts its 35th year on the air this month — and its third year of ...Advocates press FCC to open more channels for LPFMs
NPR, the National Association of Broadcasters and advocates for low-power radio expressed opposing views to the FCC in a proceeding that will ...Alvarado joins CIR, Knight fellows announced, NewsHour hires new managing editor, and more…
Alvarado, a former APM and CPB exec, is joining the Center for Investigative Reporting The nonprofit news organization announced on May 2 that ...Lourdes Garcia-Navarro was honored for distinguished reporting from the world’s most volatile regions.
NPR’s Jerusalem-based foreign correspondent received CPB’s highest award, recognizing outstanding contributions to public radio, during an April 9 dinner attended by top ...StoryCorps’ multiplatform production on the anniversary of 9/11 earned a prize for public radio and ...
The Peabody-winning segment aired on NPR’s Morning Edition and featured interviews that had been adapted as animated shorts for PBS’s POV. The award, one ...MPT hires new v.p., Sill to be KPCC’s executive editor, three Illinois pubcasters retire, and ...
Rick Lore is Maryland Public Television’s new v.p. and chief development officer Lore is responsible for membership, on-air fundraising, major and planned giving, ...NPR deal will help to measure, and monetize, web streaming
An agreement between NPR and Triton Digital, a provider of digital services to radio stations, will give NPR stations a new option ...Chapin moves from CNN to NPR, C-SPAN founder steps down, and more…
NPR tapped CNN veteran Edith Chapin to run its foreign desk News chief Margaret Low Smith announced Chapin’s appointment last week along with ...Digital journalists look for lessons in work of Andy Carvin, NPR’s one-man newsroom
On a recent afternoon at NPR, Andy Carvin was watching a video of a protest purportedly shot in the Syrian city of ...
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