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National

Public Radio International (PRI)

http://www.pri.org/PublicSite/home.html

Public Radio International’s mission is to serve audiences with distinctive programming that provides information, insights, and cultural experiences essential to understanding a diverse world.  

 

Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB)

http://www.cpb.org/

The mission of CPB is to facilitate the development of, and ensure universal access to, non-commercial high-quality programming and telecommunications services. It does this in conjunction with non-commercial educational telecommunications providers across America.

 

Regional

Minnesota Public Radio

http://www.mpr.org/

The mission of Minnesota Public Radio is to enhance the lives and expand the perspectives of their audiences, and thereby assist them in strengthening their communities through their programming.  

 

Wisconsin Public Radio

http://www.wpr.org/

Wisconsin Public Radio is a leader in public radio talk programming and home to several nationally syndicated programs.

 

Local

WNYC:  New York , NY

http://www.wnyc.org

WNYC Radio is New York's leading public radio station, with studios in lower Manhattan's Municipal Building.

 

WBUR:  Boston , MA

http://www.wbur.org/

Established in 1950, WBUR out of Boston University established itself as a source for non-commercial educational programming.

 

WHYY:  Philadelphia , PA

http://www.whyy.org/

WHYY is an award-winning station, a National Public Radio member and the producer of several national programs originating in Philadelphia.

 

WBEZ:  Chicago, IL

http://www.wbez.org/

WBEZ is Chicago's public radio station, offering listeners a wide variety of programs from news and public affairs to music and arts.

 

KCRW:  Santa Monica, CA

http://www.kcrw.org/

KCRW is a community service of Santa Monica College.  It strives to produce an eclectic mix of news, music, radio drama and arts and cultural programming for its local and national audience.

 

Online

American RadioWorks

http://www.americanradioworks.org/

American RadioWorks® is public radio's largest documentary production unit; it creates documentaries, series projects, and investigative reports for the public radio system and the Internet. ARW is based at Minnesota Public Radio in St. Paul with staff journalists in Washington, DC, San Francisco, CA, and Durham, NC.

 

Created for INLS 111:  Information Resources and Services

School of Information and Library Science [SILS]

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill by Jean Ferguson

E-mail fergusje@email.unc.edu with any questions or comments

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