Grants

National Public Radio, Inc.

Project Title

For general support

Date

Dec. 12, 2024

Duration

24 months

Description

Founded in 1970, National Public Radio (NPR) is a nationally acclaimed nonprofit multimedia organization with a network of more than 250 member stations. NPR provides quality journalism and cultural programming to an audience of more than 50 million people per week, via live radio broadcasts and other forms of audio storytelling. It maintains 17 domestic bureaus and 17 foreign bureaus, providing American audiences with timely, on-the-ground reporting on events and life around the globe, plus longform investigative journalism with impact. With Corporation support, NPR will continue to produce quality news programming on international peace and security, education, democracy, and political polarization in the United States and worldwide.

Project Title

For general support

Date

Dec. 08, 2022

Duration

24 months

Description

Founded in 1970, National Public Radio (NPR) is a nationally acclaimed nonprofit multimedia organization with a network of more than 250 member stations. NPR provides quality journalism and cultural programming to an audience of more than fifty-three million people per week, on live radio broadcast and other forms of audio storytelling. It maintains seventeen domestic bureaus and seventeen foreign bureaus, helping to provide American audiences with timely, on-the-ground reporting of events and life around the globe. Its NPR Education Desk informs millions of weekly listeners and visitors about how the nation’s education system is serving (or failing) its students in communities across the country. With Corporation support, NPR will continue to produce quality news programming on international affairs, immigration, elections, and education in the United States.

Project Title

For general support

Date

Dec. 10, 2020

Duration

24 months

Description

Founded in 1970, National Public Radio (NPR) is a nationally acclaimed nonprofit multimedia organization with a network of more than 260 member stations. NPR provides high quality journalism and cultural programming to an audience of more than 60 million people per week, on both live broadcast and digital media. It maintains seventeen domestic bureaus and seventeen foreign bureaus, helping to provide American audiences with timely, on-the-ground reporting of events in the United States and around the globe. Its NPR Education Desk informs millions of weekly listeners and visitors about whether the nation’s education system is effectively serving its students in communities across the country. With Corporation support, NPR will continue to produce quality news programming on international affairs, immigration, elections, and education in the United States.

Project Title

For general support.

Date

Dec. 06, 2018

Duration

24 months

Description

An informed public is key to an engaged citizenry and a healthy democracy. Most Americans agree that news organizations play a crucial role in maintaining our democracy—80 percent say they need accurate reporting to make decisions about important local and national issues, according to a 2017 Gallup and Knight Foundation poll. However, high-quality news is hard to find, with a majority of Americans reporting that they find it increasingly difficult to be well-informed, due to a decline in local news sources. National Public Radio (NPR) is known for providing accurate, fact-based reporting and is one of the most trusted news organizations in the country. With an extensive network of newsrooms in more than 200 member stations across the country, NPR has helped to fill gaps in local and regional news coverage. NPR also bolstered its national news coverage in preparation for the recent midterms and 2020 presidential election to ensure that voters have the facts needed to make informed decisions. The organization has added reporters and specialized beats to its Washington desk and has worked with member stations to dig deep into the issues that matter most to voters. In addition to local and national reporting, NPR covers international stories, with seventeen foreign bureaus and journalists stationed across the globe. While many news organizations are closing offices abroad, NPR is expanding its presence, launching a new bureau in the Philippines and relocating and enlarging its office in India. Over the next two years, operating support from the Corporation will allow NPR to continue to provide comprehensive fact-based local, national, and international reporting.

Project Title

For general support and project support for education reporting

Date

Jun. 09, 2016

Duration

24 months

Description

National Public Radio’s (NPR) balanced reporting, analysis, and commentary reach the largest audience of any American noncommercial news outlet and a particularly influential portion of the American public. Since their beginning more than forty years ago, NPR has been committed to covering the education trends and challenges facing the nation. Renewed support from the Corporation will add value to NPR by providing the news organization with needed resources to leverage its recently enhanced capacity to partner with member stations on local and national coverage of education and immigration issues and international peace and security concerns. NPR will produce in-depth education news coverage that goes beyond the rhetoric surrounding policy and politics. NPR will create informed understanding and conversations about education reform among NPR’s tens of millions of listeners and Web users.

Project Title

For enhancing coverage of U.S. education reform

Date

Jun. 12, 2014

Duration

24 months

Project Title

As a one-time only grant for reporting on international affairs

Date

Dec. 04, 2014

Duration

12 months

Project Title

For reporting on international affairs

Date

Dec. 13, 2012

Duration

12 months

Project Title

For expanded news reporting on education reform issues

Date

Sep. 22, 2011

Duration

24 months

Project Title

For in-depth coverage on international peace and security issues

Date

Dec. 02, 2010

Duration

24 months

Project Title

Toward expanded news reporting on education reform issues

Date

Jun. 11, 2009

Duration

24 months

Project Title

Toward the in-depth coverage of the role of Islam in the world today

Date

Mar. 06, 2008

Duration

23 months

Project Title

Toward expanded news reporting on education reform issues

Date

Mar. 01, 2007

Duration

23 months

Project Title

Toward an initiative to improve local public news reporting capacity

Date

Mar. 02, 2006

Duration

6 months