Reporting more movement by NPR News here. As related by NPR President Kevin Klose at the Public Radio in Mid-America conference in Austin last week. NPR recently opened its 18th foreign bureau - in Kabul.
It has added a total of 10 in the last few years of expansion at NPR News.
According to Klose, this puts NPR fourth behind AP, New York Times and CNN (not necessarily in that order) in terms of the number of foreign bureaus.
In January, NPR News received a 2007 Alfred I. duPont-Columbia University Award for its coverage of Iraq.
As the prestige items add up for NPR, so does the money (or vice-versa), and it puts feathers in the caps of corporate sponsors, naturally. Also, because NPR is a non-visual medium, the overhead of bureaus is much lower. ADM (for example) is happy to bump up the endowments if it brings further glory to the ADM name. Same game as 'mainstream' broadcast media, except that it's 'modified' for more 'non-commercial' applications . . . !
My name is Matthew Murrey and I'm from Florida, but have been living in the Midwest since 1984. I started this blog because no one else was blogging NPR's drift toward the right - and it made more sense than yelling at the radio.
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Reporting more movement by NPR News here. As related by NPR
President Kevin Klose at the
Public Radio in Mid-America conference in Austin last week.
NPR recently opened its 18th
foreign bureau - in Kabul.
It has added a total of 10 in
the last few years of expansion
at NPR News.
According to Klose, this puts NPR fourth behind AP, New York Times and CNN (not necessarily in that order) in terms of the number of foreign bureaus.
In January, NPR News received a 2007 Alfred I. duPont-Columbia University Award for its coverage of Iraq.
As the prestige items add up for NPR, so does the money (or vice-versa), and it puts feathers in the caps of corporate sponsors, naturally. Also, because NPR is a non-visual medium, the overhead of bureaus is much lower. ADM (for example) is happy to bump up the endowments if it brings further glory to the ADM name. Same game as 'mainstream' broadcast media, except that it's 'modified' for more 'non-commercial' applications . . . !
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