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National Public Radio is an American non-profit media organization headquartered in Washington, D.C., with its NPR West headquarters in Culver City, California. It serves as a national syndicator to a network of over 1,000 public radio stations in the United States. It differs from other non-profit membership media organizations, such as the Associated Press, in that it was established by an act of Congress. Wikipedia
Website: www.npr.org
Latest news
- Apr 26: The New York Times looks at “the crisis at NPR”. The growth of NPR’s podcast business is cited as a source of tension with member stations.
- Feb 28: WAMU, the NPR member station in Washington DC, is to lay off 15 staffers. The company will close DCist, a local news site, but plans to invest more in audio.
- Feb 16: Triton Digital released its January 2024 Podcast Ranker. NPR has the #1 podcast; SiriusXM is the #1 sales network. However, as we highlight in our report about iOS 17, Triton Digital’s ranker shows a year-on-year drop for average weekly podcast downloads of almost 33%.
- Dec 14, 2023: Flagged in October 2019, NPR has closed the NPR One app to simplify its offerings in app stores, moving NPR One’s functionality to the main NPR app. The new NPR app offers podcasts, the NPR One personalised radio flow, curated stories and access to flagship news shows. You can listen to Podnews’s daily updates there too.
- Dec 1, 2023: Collin Campbell has been named as Senior Vice President of Podcasting Strategy and Franchise Development at NPR. He will start in December and be based at NPR West in Culver City; he joins from Gimlet Media (and before that, Audible).
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