National Public Radio (NPR)

Administrative History/Information:

• Incorporated 1970
• principal producer and distributor of national public radio news programming
• distributes independently produced programming
• operates public radio's satellite interconnection system
• merged with the Association for Public Radio Stations: 1977

Related Collections:

• Corporation for Public Broadcasting Archives: John W. Macy Files
• Lee C. Frischknecht Papers
• Kenneth J. Garry Papers
• George Geesey Papers
• Burt Harrison Papers-Interviews:
  • Jack M. Burke
  • Martin P. Busch
  • Hugh V. Cordier
  • John C. Crabbe
  • John DeCamp
  • Richard Estell
  • Albert P. Fredette
  • Lee C. Frischknecht
  • John Gregory
  • Robert L. Hilliard
  • Robert C. Hinz
  • Albert Hulsen
  • Kenneth Kager
  • Robert A. Mott
  • Donald R. Quayle
  • James Robertson
  • Jerrold Sandler
  • Walter P. and Martha Sheppard
  • Patricia L. Swenson
  • John P. Witherspoon
  • Elizabeth L. Young
• Presley D. Holmes Papers
• Samuel C.O. Holt Papers
• Bernard Mayes Papers
• NPR Archives
  • Board of Directors Files
  • Executive Office: Frank Mankiewicz Files
  • Cultural Programming and Program Services Division
    • Audience Services and Program Evaluation Files
    • Educational Services Files
  • Office of the General Counsel Files
  • Office of the President - Strategic Planning Files
• Louisa A. Nielsen Papers
• Frank W. Norwood Papers
• Elizabeth L. Young Papers

Reference Shelf Materials

Reading Room

Avery, Robert K., ed. Public Service Broadcasting in a Multi-Channel Environment. New York: Longman, 1993. NPBA REF HD 8689.4 .P83

Barrett, Marvin, ed. The Politics of Broadcasting. New York: Crowell, 1973. PN 4888 .T4 B28

Barsamian, David. The Decline and Fall of Public Broadcasting. Cambridge, MA: South End Press, 2001. HE 8700.8 .B374 2001

Blakely, Robert J. The People's Instrument: A Philosophy of Programming for Public Television. Washington, Public Affairs Press, 1971. BCAST PN 1992.8 .P8 B47

Carnegie Commission on the Future of Public Broadcasting. A Public Trust: The Report of the Carnegie Commission on the Future of Public Broadcasting. New York: Bantam Books, 1979. BCAST HE 8700.8 .C37 1979

Cater, Douglass and Michael J. Nyhan, eds. The Future of Public Broadcasting. New York: Praeger, 1976. BCAST HE 8700.8 .F87

Corporation for Public Broadcasting. Office of Educational Activities. Patterns of Performance: Public Broadcasting and Education 1974-1976. Washington, DC: Corporation for Public Broadcasting, 1977. BCAST LB 1044.8 .C37

Educational Broadcasting Review. 1968-1973 Periodicals

Hockenberry, John. Moving Violations: War Zones, Wheelchairs, and Declarations of Independence. New York: Hyperion, 1995. RC 406 .P3 H57

National Public Radio. Annual Report. 1980-1993. HE 8697.98 .U6 N37a

Siegel, Robert. The NPR Interviews, 1995. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1995. PN 4784 .R2 N38 1995

Stamberg, Susan. Every Night at Five: Susan Stamberg's All Things Considered Book. New York: Pantheon, 1982. AC 5 .E78

Task Force on Long-Range Financing for Public Broadcasting. Report of the Task Force on Long-Range Financing for Public Broadcasting. Washington, DC: Corporation for Public Broadcasting, 1983. PN 1992.8 .P8 C65 1973

By Request

"All the News Fit to Hear," Time, Vol. 114, No. 9 (August 27, 1979) Folder: 779

Association of Public Radio Stations and National Public Radio. Public Radio: The Next Step May 1977. Folder: 609

Cannon, Carl M. "What You Get for the Taxes You Pay: National Public Radio." Forbes Media Critic, Vol 2., No. 4 (Summer 1995): 70-75. Folder: 706

Coburn, Randy Sue. "On the Airwaves with Susan Stamberg," New Age Journal, December 1983. Folder: 774

Current 1980-present. Serials

Fonda, Daren. "National Prosperous Radio," Time, March 17, 2003. Folder: 762

Garry, Kenneth John. "The History of National Public Radio: 1974-1977." Dissertation, Southern Illinois University at Carbondale, 1984. Dissertations/Theses

Harvey, Marjorie. "Susan Stamberg Considered," Barnard Alumane, Fall 1979. Folder: 776

Hoffman, Nicholas von. "Mank and the One-of-the-Kind Network." Channels of Communication, June/July 1981. Folder: 198

Kirkish, Joseph Brady. "A Descriptive History of America's First National Public Radio Network: National Public Radio, 1970 to 1974." University of Michigan, 1980. Dissertations/Theses

Lawrence, Jean. "All the News That's Fit to Hear," TWA Ambassador, Vol. 12, No. 11 (November 1979): 38-40. Folder: 773

McCauley, Michael P. "From the Margins to the Mainstream: The History of National Public Radio," Unpublished doctoral dissertation, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 1997. Dissertations/Theses

National Public Radio.

• 1984 Cassette Catalog. Folder: 750
• 1990-1991 Cassette Catalog. Folder: 751
• "Annual Report: Fiscal 1978" 1979. Folder: 724
• "Annual Report: Fiscal 1979" 1980. Folder: 725
• Dateline/NPR. Vol. 1, Nos. 1-2 (November-December 1973). Serials
• "A Growing Force." 1971. Folder: 754
• "iNPRint." 1990-1991, 1993. Serials
• "National Public Radio Annual Summary, Fiscal 1982." 1982. Folder: 320
• National Public Radio - In the News: Sample Press Clippings 1979 PN 1991.8
• NPR: Celebrating 25 Years of NPR. 1996. Folder: 321
• Quarterly Edition: Fall 1998. Folder: 582
• Sound. Folder: 323
• "Splash!: Tips for Building Audience Using the NPR News Campaign." June 1989. Folder: 759
• Star Power. 1981 Public Radio Conference. April 29, 1981. Folder: 610
• Strategic Plan for the 1990s. February 7, 1990. Folder: 326

"NPR: The Other Side of Broadcasting." Forecast FM Folder: 704

Piantadosi, Roger. "Stamberg Considered," New York, October 22, 1979. Folder: 777

"Public Radio Perks Up," Newsweek, Vol. 93, No. 11 (March 12, 1979): 84. Folder: 775

"The Public Radio Study-Report." 1969 On Shelf

Public Telecommunications Review 1973-1980. Serials

Young, Elizabeth L. "Public Radio in the Seventies." Educational Broadcasting Review, Vol. 4, No. 6 (December 1970). Folder: 510

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