Tag: NPR
NPR’s first ombudsman: My year as a ‘porous membrane’
On Jan. 22, 2000, NPR President Kevin Klose asked me to become NPR’s first ombudsman for the listeners. I remember the date because ...‘It’s going too fast’
“I don’t remember talking to you before. I can’t remember yesterday. Tomorrow I won’t remember this. It’s not there.” “Is that distressing?” ...LPFM rules still disputed; Congress may act
Applicants for low-power FM (LPFM) stations range from mundane (Sacramento’s Sutter Middle School) to exotic (the Women on Top Awareness Series of ...NPR asks FCC to delay, rethink low-power FM
NPR took a different tack March 16 in the ongoing assault on the FCC’s controversial plan to license low-power FM (LPFM) stations. ...NPR Underwriting Guidelines, as of 2000
Undated document supplied by NPR, January 2000. No Commercial Obligations or Influence NPR is an independent, nonprofit organization that carries no on-air advertising. One ...Terry Gross: engaged with subject and listeners
Terry Gross is interviewing the actor Dustin Hoffman. He is about to launch what is probably a set piece about his work ...Bylaws of National Public Radio Inc., 1999
These bylaws include all amendments through Jan. 20, 1999. See also original NPR bylaws from 1970. ARTICLE I – OFFICES 1.1 Principal Office. ...Merger: we’re not talking now, but we might be talking later
It may be a simple question–are PRI and NPR talking about a merger?–but that doesn’t mean it gets a simple answer. To ...Will research bring comeback for radio drama?
Talking about the current status of drama on public radio, NPR’s cultural programmer Andy Trudeau thinks back 10, 15 years ago, to ...Abu-Jamal sues NPR to force broadcast of commentaries
Death row inmate, journalist, and international cause celebre Mumia Abu-Jamal has filed a $2 million censorship lawsuit against NPR over the network’s ...What we offer: the case distinguishing NPR news
A longtime NPR correspondent — then vice president in charge of the network’s news division — adapted this article from his remarks ...Commentaries from prison nixed, but —
NPR’s decisions to air, and then not to air, Mumia Abu-Jamal’s death-row commentaries might yet take another turn. The network is committed ...GAO statement on NPR financial crisis, 1984
NPR was shaken, President Frank Mankiewicz and other top managers toppled and some 60 staffers laid off in the network’s 1983 financial ...National Public Radio, Inc., By-Laws, 1970
NPR’s original bylaws were put into effect when it was incorporated on Feb. 26, 1970. ARTICLE I. Name The Corporation shall be known as NATIONAL ...NPR Articles of Incorporation, 1970
These articles were attached to National Public Radio’s certificate of incorporation filed with the District of Columbia Recorder of Deeds, Feb. 26, 1970. ARTICLES ...
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