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The organization's legal name is National Public Radio and its trademarked brand is NPR; it is known by both names. [10] In June 2010, the organization announced that it was "making a conscious effort to consistently refer to ourselves as NPR on-air and online" because NPR is the common name for the organization and its radio hosts have used the tag line "This ... is NPR" for many years. [10]
Maher congratulating Wikidata's fifth anniversary in 2017. Katherine Roberts Maher (/ m ɑːr / MAR; [1] born April 18, 1983) [2] is an American non-profit executive. She has been the chief executive officer (CEO) and president of National Public Radio (NPR) since March 2024. [3]
The Corporation for Public Broadcasting was created on November 7, 1967, when U.S. president Lyndon B. Johnson signed the Public Broadcasting Act of 1967.The new organization initially collaborated with the National Educational Television network—which would be replaced by the Public Broadcasting Service (PBS).
Many of us have argued that NPR should compete with other radio companies in the free market. Notably, some Democratic leaders have pushed to get Fox News dropped from cable news carriers despite ...
NPR is under attack from critics: A Defund NPR page has been set up on Facebook which has more than 7,100 fans. But the network has plenty of support, too. Progressives, and some conservatives ...
American Public Media (APM) is an American company that produces and distributes public radio programs in the United States, the second largest company of its type after NPR. [1] Its non-profit parent, American Public Media Group, also owns and operates radio stations in Minnesota and California.
Katherine Maher, the new CEO of National Public Radio, recently purchased a sprawling three-bedroom, three-bathroom Brooklyn brownstone for $2.7 million, The Post has learned.
Consumers of information from NPR contend that NPR does its job well. A study conducted in 2003 by the polling firm Knowledge Networks and the University of Maryland's Program on International Policy Attitudes (University of Maryland at College Park) showed that those who get their news and information from public broadcasting (NPR and PBS – Public Broadcasting Service) are better informed ...