BBC World Service and American Public Media announce extension of BBC distribution partnership in the U.S.

Media contact: Angie Andresen651-290-1373BBC World Service and American Public Media (APM) have announced the extension of their agreement for the distribution of BBC World Service English radio programming to U.S. public radio. The partnership is renewed until mid 2022.American Public Media began distributing BBC World Service in 2012. The partnership will continue to focus on delivering the BBC’s award winning global journalism, breaking news and programming to public radio stations across the U.S.“APM is proud to be a partner to BBC World Service in ensuring Americans have the highest quality international news,” said Jon McTaggart, CEO American Public Media Group. “We’re energized by the increased support for BBC World Service programming from stations and their audiences, and we’re excited to continue our work to grow BBC’s reach and impact in the U.S. across platforms.”“We know from our audience feedback in the U.S. that listeners feel an increased need for global news, and value the BBC’s international perspective on events both within and outside America,” said Mary Hockaday, Controller of BBC World Service English.  “I’m delighted that we are continuing our successful partnership with APM to serve public radio stations in the U.S. with news and programming that offers a trusted and distinctive complement to the local and national news landscape.”In the U.S., nearly 600 local public radio stations broadcast BBC content - mainly news and current affairs programming, including its daily flagship global program Newshour. The public radio audience for BBC World Service English broadcasts via APM in the U.S. has seen significant growth of 70 percent during the past 4 years (Spring 2012 to Spring 2016*).BBC and APM also introduced BBC Topline in 2014, the daily 90-second audio snapshot of the world’s most important unfolding stories, curated for U.S. audiences and made to complement public radio stations’ morning drive clock. BBC Topline currently broadcasts on more than 100 stations in the U.S.

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The Splendid Table expands collaboration with America’s Test Kitchen

Media contact: Jen Keavy651-290-1271jkeavy@americanpublicmedia.orgThe Splendid Table today announced an expansion of its collaboration with America’s Test Kitchen, the most popular how-to-cook show on television. The combined resources of these two trusted brands promises to deliver the highest quality food and cooking content to radio listeners.Beginning in January, The Splendid Table (TST) will air weekly America’s Test Kitchen (ATK) segments on its podcast and public radio show. America’s Test Kitchen co-host Bridget Lancaster and other ATK personnel will join Splendid Table host Lynne Rossetto Kasper each week to share its practical, hands-on culinary expertise. In addition to the regular weekly segment, Bridget Lancaster will be on hand to help field listeners’ questions on The Splendid Table’s annual Thanksgiving Day special, “Turkey Confidential.” Details and airtimes will be available at splendidtable.org in November. As part of the relationship, America’s Test Kitchen will also provide digital content, such as how-to videos and product reviews, that will appear on The Splendid Table’s website.“America’s Test Kitchen is our dream partner,” said Sally Swift, managing producer and co-creator of The Splendid Table.  “Their team’s deep expertise and commitment to quality food, recipe development, culinary science and product reviews dovetails beautifully with our 20 plus year commitment as the show for people who love to eat. We are thrilled to be able to share more of ATK‘s expertise and resources for home cooks with our audience.”Both highly regarded culinary resources in their own right, the two programs’ alliance offer home cooks the best of both worlds—hands-on practical tips and foolproof recipes along with the historical, cultural and social aspects of food that come together every time people sit down to enjoy a meal.“The Splendid Table is trusted by millions of radio listeners and we are thrilled to join forces with such a talented team,” said Jack Bishop, chief creative officer of America’s Test Kitchen. “Our brands share the same mission—to empower home cooks with reliable information. We are so excited to work together with The Splendid Table to inform and inspire home cooks.”The two legacy culinary media outlets began collaborating earlier this year, featuring monthly segments on food science with Molly Birnbaum, executive editor of Cook’s Science at America’s Test Kitchen. Those segments will continue to air, as well.About The Splendid TableNow in its twentieth season, The Splendid Table is the show for life’s appetites. A culinary, culture and lifestyle program that celebrates the intersection of food and life, it can be heard on more than 400 public radio stations nationwide. The show is produced and distributed by American Public Media and has been listed on numerous “best of” podcast lists including a recent nod by the Huffington Post’s Food Editor as the top food podcast to listen to in 2016.Lynne Rossetto Kasper has won numerous awards as host of The Splendid Table, including the IACP Lifetime Achievement Award (2016), two James Beard Foundation Awards (1998, 2008) for Best National Radio Show on Food, five Clarion Awards (2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2014) from Women in Communication, and a Gracie Allen Award in 2000 for Best Syndicated Talk Show. Lynne is a respected authority on food, having published multiple bestselling books: The Splendid Table; The Italian Country Table; a series of quarterly e-books, Eating In with Lynne Rossetto Kasper, as well as the best-selling The Splendid Table's How To Eat Supper, How To Eat Weekends and A Summertime Grilling Guide, which were co-authored with founding producer Sally Swift.Find The Splendid Table on Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, and Tumblr.About America’s Test KitchenAmerica's Test Kitchen began with a single magazine title, Cook's Illustrated, which debuted in 1992. The America's Test Kitchen television show was launched in 2001, after which the company added Cook's Country magazine, a second television program, an online cooking school, three websites that offer recipes and online video, and a robust book program that publishes a dozen new titles a year, which regularly land on bestseller lists. Learn more at https://www.americastestkitchen.com/.Bridget Lancaster is the executive editor for new media, television, and radio at America’s Test Kitchen and co-host of America’s Test Kitchen and Cook’s Country from America’s Test Kitchen television shows. She joined the Cook’s Illustrated team in 1998 and is an original cast member of both television shows, as well as a co-host for America’s Test Kitchen Radio. Bridget currently serves as the lead instructor for the America’s Test Kitchen Online Cooking School and helps develop and produce courses for the school. Her earlier career led her to cook in restaurant kitchens in the South and Northeast, concentrating on pastry.The Splendid Table and America’s Test Kitchen are grateful to Bob’s Red Mill for many years of generous support for both shows on public radio.  Bob’s Red Mill is the premiere sponsor of The Splendid Table episodes featuring America’s Test Kitchen.

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APM Reports and The Washington Post Partner on New Podcast, Historically Black

Podcast will curate stories about African- American history with special guest hosts Keegan Michael-Key, Roxane Gay, Issa Rae, Heben Nigatu and Tracy Clayton

September 16, 2016--- The Washington Post and APM Reports today release an audio teaser of Historically Black, a new podcast series launching on Monday, September 19. Based on The Post’s Historically Black Tumblr project, a user-generated “people’s museum” of objects representing black history, the podcast will showcase some of the project’s most compelling and powerful objects vividly discussed through interviews, archival radio and music curated by APM Reports and The Post in eight short episodes hosted by four celebrities.Celebrity guest hosts will include actor and comedian Keegan Michael-Key; feminist writer and professor Roxane Gay; creator of “The Misadventures of Awkward Black Girl” web series Issa Rae; and Another Round podcast hosts Heben Nigatu and Tracy Clayton who will host two episodes each. The Post will feature the podcast as part of its multi-platform coverage of the opening of the Smithsonian Museum of African-American History and Culture. APM Reports will oversee the podcast production and distribution.“Oral storytelling is an important part of our African-American culture and partnering with The Washington Post to give audio to their social project made perfect sense” says Jonathan Blakley, interim director of APM On Demand. “Through combining forces, we will be able to add more depth and share more widely these important stories and histories that have contributed to our collective knowledge.”Entries submitted to the Historically Black Tumblr page were considered for inclusion for the podcast. People are still encouraged to continue submitting to the Tumblr page, however they will not be considered for podcast episodes. Previously submitted objects include a photo Duchess Harris discovered of her grandmother working for NASA (then NACA) as a “computer” in the 1940s; the photo of the Million Man March that hung in Kamille Washington’s den during her childhood; a copy of Michelle Lee’s great -great grandfather’s poll tax exemption document, and more.“As part of The Post’s coverage of the Smithsonian’s new African American museum, we wanted to find an interesting and totally unique way to engage our readers locally and across the country,” said Jessica Stahl, editor for search, social and communities at The Washington Post. “Launching the Historically Black Tumblr was a great success—people were submitting their most personal objects and stories—so in partnership with APM Reports listeners will now be able to hear the voices behind these intimate stories. We are excited to share the future episodes.”About the HostsAs an actor, writer, and creator, Keegan-Michael Key has become one of the most creative and in-demand faces in Hollywood. With his extraordinarily diverse skill set and wide-ranging talent in both comedy and drama, Key redefines what it means to be a chameleon and multi-hyphenate in the worlds of film, television, and theater.Key is the co-creator and co-star of Comedy Central’s “Key & Peele” with Jordan Peele. The show has become a TV and viral sensation, with 12 total Emmy® nominations and over 700 million online hits. In 2016, the show was recognized with seven nominations and Key was once again nominated in the category of Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Comedy Series. The show won a 2014 Peabody Award and an American Comedy Award for “Best Alternative Comedy Series.” Even though, the show concluded its five season run in September 2015, Key and Peele still collaborate together. They are currently developing “Substitute Teacher” and collaborating on Police Academy in which they will star and producer.Key can currently be seen in Mike Birbiglia's critically acclaimed “Don't Think Twice”. He returns to the voice-over animated world this September, with “Storks”. This December, Key stars in “Why Him?”, in which he stars alongside James Franco, Bryan Cranston, Zoey Deutch, and Megan Mullally.Roxane Gay’s writing appears in Best American Mystery Stories 2014, Best American Short Stories 2012, Best Sex Writing 2012, A Public Space, McSweeney’s, Tin House, Oxford American, American Short Fiction, Virginia Quarterly Review, and many others. She is a contributing opinion writer for The New York Times. She is the author of the books Ayiti, An Untamed State, the New York Times bestselling Bad Feminist, and Difficult Women and Hunger forthcoming in 2017. She is also the author of World of Wakanda for Marvel.With her own unique flare and infectious sense of humor, Issa Rae's content has garnered over 23 million views and 200,000 YouTube subscribers (and counting). In addition to making Glamour Magazine's "35 Under 35", Forbes' "30 Under 30" and Entertainment Weekly's "Breaking Big" lists, Issa's hit series The Misadventures of Awkward Black Girl was the recipient of the coveted Shorty Award for Best Web Show. Issa's first book, a collection of short stories, is a New York Times Best Seller and her latest project, Insecure, a half-hour comedy show for HBO, premieres Fall 2016.  Issa has received national attention with major media outlets including The New York Times, CNN, ELLE, Seventeen, Rolling Stone,BuzzFeed, Fast Company, MSNBC, Essence, Fader, Variety and more.Tracy Clayton is a writer, humorist, and co-host of the nationally recognized podcast Another Round which has had guests such as Lin-Manuel Miranda and Hillary Clinton. She is also the 2016-2017 Ida B. Wells Media Expert-in-Residence for the Anna Julia Cooper Center at Wake Forest University.Heben Nigatu is a writer for The Late Show with Stephen Colbert and co-host of the nationally recognized podcast Another Round. Heben is a member of Forbes' 30 under 30 2016 class.About APM Reports APM Reports, formed in November 2015, is a collection of investigative journalists and documentary producers, editors, researchers and digital producers dedicated to producing high quality reporting on issues that are often hidden from public view.About The Washington PostThe Washington Post is an award-winning news leader whose mission is to connect, inform, and enlighten local, national and global readers with trustworthy reporting, in-depth analysis and engaging opinions. It combines world-class journalism with the latest technology and tools so readers can interact with The Post anytime, anywhere.

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APM REPORTS LAUNCHES “IN THE DARK” – A PODCAST ABOUT A CHILD ABDUCTION INVESTIGATION THAT CHANGED THE NATION

First two episodes of eight-part series available on Sept. 7

September 7, 2016 – St. Paul, Minn. – The 27-year investigation into the disappearance of Jacob Wetterling ended yesterday, but in the wake of the confession from a man who lived within 40 miles from where Jacob was taken, many are left asking, “why did this take so long?” In the most comprehensive reporting on this case, American Public Media’s investigative and documentary unit, APM Reports, reveals how law enforcement mishandled one of the most notorious child abductions and why it matters.The reporting, led by award-winning journalist Madeleine Baran and done over a period of nine months, will be shared in an eight-episode weekly podcast series, “In the Dark,” beginning Sept. 7. Originally slated to be released Sept. 13, due to the news of the past week, episodes 1 and 2 now will be released on Sept. 7, and episode 3 will be available Sept. 12. The remaining episodes will drop weekly.“In the Dark” takes a close look at the quality of the investigation that reveals a story that until now has not been told. The Jacob Wetterling case wasn’t just any child abduction. Not only did it fuel national anxiety about stranger danger, it also led to a federal law that requires all states to maintain registries of sex offenders.“While this case has been covered locally and nationally, no one has really gone in depth about the investigation itself,” said Chris Worthington, APM Reports’ editor-in-chief. “There is much to learn from this case – one that left Minnesota reeling and the nation watching.”The podcast will be released weekly starting on Sept. 7 and is available on iTunes.APM Reports, formed in November 2015, is a collection of investigative journalists and documentary producers, editors, researchers and digital producers dedicated to producing high quality reporting on issues that are often hidden from public view.

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APM REPORTS LAUNCHES “IN THE DARK” – A PODCAST ABOUT A CHILD ABDUCTION INVESTIGATION THAT CHANGED THE NATION

In podcast, American Public Media’s investigative journalists ask:“Why Hasn’t Jacob Wetterling Been Found?”

August 29, 2016 – St. Paul, Minn. – In the 27 years since Jacob Wetterling was abducted in rural Minnesota, the investigation has yielded no answers about what happened to Jacob. Neither the abductor nor Jacob has been found. In the most comprehensive reporting on this case, American Public Media’s investigative and documentary unit, APM Reports, reveals how law enforcement has mishandled one of the most notorious child abductions and why it matters.The Jacob Wetterling case wasn’t just any child abduction. Not only did it fuel national anxiety about stranger danger, it also led to a federal law that requires all states to maintain registries of sex offenders.The reporting, led by award-winning journalist Madeleine Baran, will be shared in an eight-episode weekly podcast series, “In the Dark,” beginning Sept. 13. APM Reports takes a close look at the quality of the investigation that reveals a story that until now has not been told.“While this case has been covered locally and nationally, no one has really gone in depth about the investigation itself,” said Chris Worthington, APM Reports’ editor-in-chief. “We wanted to examine what went wrong and why this case has not been solved. And most importantly, why Jacob Wetterling hasn’t been found.”The podcast will be released weekly starting on Sept. 13 and is available on iTunes.APM Reports, formed in November 2015, is a collection of investigative journalists and documentary producers, editors, researchers and digital producers dedicated to producing high quality reporting on issues that are often hidden from public view.

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Marketplace Presents “Politics Inside Out” Podcast

Pop-up Podcast will cover the conventions throughthe lens of Insiders & Outsiders

(July 15, 2016)-- LOS ANGELES-- Marketplace will produce a two-week “pop-up” podcast as part of its coverage of the Republican and Democratic national conventions, starting on Monday, July 18, in Cleveland. As both parties have seen internal tensions play out between “insiders and outsiders” this cycle , the stale divisions of “left versus right” and “big government versus small” are gone. This daily podcast will take the modern lens of “outsiders versus insiders” to examine questions from who is being left out of the economy or government,  to who are the winners and losers in this global economy, and how people’s lives are affected by their level of access to political power. Rather than just focus on play-by-play convention coverage, Marketplace believes that focusing on the human aspect of politics and socio-economic issues will deepen listeners’ understanding of why this “outsider versus insider” dynamic has so forcefully come to fruition.According to Washington, DC Bureau Chief Andrea Seabrook, “Our latest Marketplace-Edison Research poll shows that most Americans think the economy is rigged. Put that perception together with increasing income inequality and you get an insider versus outsider view of political and economic systems.” Seabrook says, “We want to push ourselves and our stories out of the convention bubble, and bring Americans’ questions in. Marketplace aims to both describe this generational shift in politics and economics, and work to bridge it.“Politics Inside Out” is an eight to ten minute podcast produced by Marketplace and hosted by Seabrook. It will include interviews at the conventions, conversations with Marketplace hosts including Kai Ryssdal and David Brancaccio, and real-time observations from DC reporters Nancy Marshall-Genzer and Kimberly Adams.

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APM Wins Academy of Podcasters Awards

Brains On!, Codebreaker and The Dinner Party Download won awards on July 6, 2016, in their respective categories at the Academy of Podcasters awards ceremony during the Podcast Movement conference. The Splendid Table was also nominated. Like the Oscars, these awards are given by an Academy made up of influential podcasters and Hall of Fame inductees.These awards are a true honor given by peers and reflect the awesome content produced. Congratulations to hosts Molly Bloom, Rico Gagliano, Ben Johnson, Brendan Francis Newnam, Marc Sanchez and Sanden Totten and to producers Larissa Anderson, Jackson Musker, Neena Pathak, Clare Toeniskoetter and Kristina Lopez!Check out the winners!Dinner Party Download: Best Food and Drink PodcastCodebreaker: Best Technology PodcastBrains On!: Best Parenting, Family & Kids Podcast

 

Marketplace Welcomes Andrea Seabrook as New Washington, D.C. Bureau Chief

Andrea Seabrook Joins Marketplace as its D.C. Bureau Chief

LOS ANGELES—June 21, 2016 — Today Marketplace is excited to welcome renowned journalist Andrea Seabrook as its new Washington, D.C. bureau chief. Seabrook is well-known to public radio listeners from her roles as NPR’s long-time Congressional Correspondent and as a host of its top shows, including All Things Considered, Weekend Edition, The Diane Rehm Show and Talk of the Nation.Seabrook also created the ground-breaking DecodeDC podcast in keen anticipation of the industry boom. The show covers politics beyond the familiar red and blue state construct, which happens to coincide with how Marketplace thinks through its coverage of financial and economic issues as they intersect with Washington and politics."I am thrilled to find a home among journalists who share her life-long goal: producing journalism that is accessible and conversational, while providing extraordinary depth and context," said Seabrook.

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Welfare as We Now Know It

New from Marketplace, The Uncertain Hour podcast is about making sense of “making it” in America with its first season focused on welfare reform 20 years later

LOS ANGELES—April 28, 2016 —“Welfare as we know it” ended twenty years ago. But what do we know about it now? Join Marketplace senior correspondent Krissy Clark as she explores the last twenty years of welfare reform in her new podcast, The Uncertain Hour. Debuting today, listeners will travel across America with Clark as she brings to life welfare reform’s impact through interviews with affected individuals and explanatory reporting of how reform has been implemented in various regions.“It’s striking that often issues we fight the most about are the issues we actually know the least about,” says Clark.  “The more I looked in to how the program we know as ‘welfare’ actually works today—the more blown away I was by how most of us really have no idea what it looks like or even does.”With sponsorship from the Annie E. Casey Foundation, season one of The Uncertain Hour will release six 20-40 minute episodes on a bi-weekly schedule. The show will mark this significant anniversary of welfare reform by bringing the past, present and future to light. From how it all began to the miracle that wasn’t; from the profiteers to the “welfare queens”.In late May, Marketplace will partner with Slate to present an interactive look at what welfare reform has accomplished and some of its surprising consequences.“We’re delighted to be collaborating with Marketplace to examine 20 years of welfare reform,” says Slate’s features editor Jessica Winter, who is overseeing the partnership. “From exploring some of the country’s most unlikely welfare recipients to testing readers’ assumptions about how welfare benefits really work, we’re excited to unpack this important topic in such a comprehensive, multimedia-oriented way.”Future seasons of The Uncertain Hour will explore one topic in depth, with an eye on the origin story. What is seen as ‘normal’ in the day-to-day of life didn’t just ‘happen’; it had a beginning. The show is an intimate portrait of life and those moments—the emotional, personal, and sometimes funny encounters individuals have with the economy. It’ll leave listeners thinking about their everyday in a whole new way.About The Uncertain HourThe Uncertain Hour is an immersive “docu-pod” that makes sense of making it in America. It takes a deep dive into one topic each season to paint intimate portraits of people trying to build a better life, and how abstract economic policies intersect with their day to day moments.About the Host Krissy ClarkKrissy Clark is the award-winning senior correspondent for Marketplace’s Wealth & Poverty Desk, where she brings her infectious curiosity, playfulness and empathy to help make sense of some of the most fundamental shifts happening in the U.S. economy today, including the widening gap between rich and poor and what it means for economic mobility and the American Dream.Krissy recently won a Gracie Award from the Alliance for Women in Media. She was a finalist for a James Beard Award and a Loeb Award in 2015. Her stories and documentaries have won honors from Scripps-Howard, PRNDI, NFCB, an Investigative Reporters and Editors Medal of Honor, and First Prize in Investigative Reporting from the National Awards for Education Reporting. She was a finalist for the Livingston Award for Journalists Under 35, and a Third Coast Award for Best News Feature.### 

American Public Media Prepares for Next Chapter of A Prairie Home Companion with Chris Thile as Host

St. Paul, Minn., April 12, 2016 – One of the most popular public radio programs will begin a new chapter this fall as musician Chris Thile takes over for Garrison Keillor as the new host of A Prairie Home Companion®, bringing a fresh approach to an audience favorite. Beginning on October 15, 2016, Thile will host a 30-week season, including live broadcasts, produced shows and repeats on public radio stations nationwide.The only live music and variety show aired nationwide today, A Prairie Home Companion is a Saturday night staple for radio audiences everywhere. The show features a unique blend of musical performances and comedy. For 42 years, the program has built a large and loyal audience, with nearly 3.5 million fans tuning in to enjoy the show each week.The show will continue to be broadcast live on Saturday nights from the Fitzgerald Theater in St. Paul, as well from venues across the country, including The Town Hall in New York, and will showcase unparalleled guests and new digital content. The next version of A Prairie Home Companion is expected to draw new, younger audiences while still engaging longtime fans. Each of the new live shows will feature a mix of well-known and up-and-coming musicians, humor with sketch comedy and spoken word, plus an original ‘Song of the Week’ composed by Thile.Initial response from the programs Thile has guest hosted have been overwhelmingly positive, with the show’s social media channels lighting up with praise for the new host. In fact, Thile’s Super Bowl-inspired original song during his last guest host appearance, “Omahallelujah,” became the most-watched clip on the show’s YouTube channel.“We’re making a bold investment to reinvent A Prairie Home Companion and create something that appeals to an even broader audience, while still staying true to the spirit of the show,” said Jon McTaggart, president and CEO of American Public Media Group. “Chris is an incredible talent who brings enthusiasm, creativity and the ability to connect with many different musical tastes. Both live and radio audiences are in for a treat.”Last summer, Keillor announced that Thile was his choice to take the reins as host. “He’s a brilliant musician,” Keillor said about Thile. “He’s just an amazing musician. The show will have a solid musical foundation. We started out as a music show and then other things were added to it. And this new incarnation will evolve in the same way.” He added in another interview that selecting Thile as host was “the best idea I’ve had since Powdermilk Biscuits.”For Thile, who has been a long-time guest on the program, this was the opportunity of a lifetime. “I was raised with (and to a certain extent, on) A Prairie Home Companion and I love it with all my heart,” Thile said. “The template Garrison created is infinite in its capacity to surprise, delight, and comfort, and is as malleable as it is sturdy. Being able to explore what can be done with it on a weekly basis is as thrilling a prospect as I can possibly imagine.”In addition to the new Thile-hosted shows, stations also will carry repeat A Prairie Home Companion shows, hosted by Keillor.

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Marketplace’s Lizzie O’Leary and Krissy Clark Named 2016 Gracies Award Winners

Los Angeles, March 21, 2016 – Marketplace Weekend host, Lizzie O’Leary, and Marketplace correspondent, Krissy Clark, were named as honorees of the 2016 Gracie Awards, presented by the Alliance for Women in Media Foundation. The Gracies recognize exemplary programming created by women, for women and about women in all facets of media and entertainment, as well as individuals who have made contributions to the industry.O’Leary was recognized with The Gracie Award for her work as host of a national radio news program. She is the host of Marketplace Weekend – the Marketplace portfolio’s newest program, which O’Leary helped launch in 2014. As host, O’Leary combines her strong journalistic skills with her ability to bring the economy to life for audiences to better understand complex economic topics in an interesting and relatable way.Krissy Clark is the senior correspondent for Marketplace’s Wealth & Poverty Desk, where she helps make sense of some of the most fundamental shifts happening in the U.S. economy, including the growth of the low-wage service sector and the shrinking of middle-wage, middle-class jobs. Krissy tracks the widening gap between rich and poor in the U.S. and what it means for economic mobility in America. Clark won two awards – one highlighting her work as a reporter and correspondent for Marketplace’s daily radio program, and another for her in-depth reporting on gentrification, in a series called “York and Fig.”“It’s such an honor to see two of our incredible journalists recognized for their outstanding work,” said Deborah Clark, vice president and executive producer, Marketplace. “Both Lizzie and Krissy are compelling storytellers and help break down the macro economy by telling stories at the micro level – about the real people who make up our economy.”O’Leary and Clark will be honored at the 41^st Annual Gracie Awards Gala on May, 24, 2016 in Beverly Hills. The event benefits the Alliance for Women in Media Foundation, a charitable non-profit that creates educational programs, charitable activities and scholarship initiatives to benefit the public and women in the media.About MarketplaceMarketplace® is produced and distributed by American Public Media™ (APM), one of the largest producers and distributors of public radio programming in the world with a portfolio reaching 19 million listeners via nearly 1,000 radio stations nationwide each week. Produced in association with the University of Southern California, Marketplace® programs (Marketplace, Marketplace Weekend, Marketplace Morning Report and Marketplace Tech) are currently broadcast by nearly 800 public radio stations nationwide and heard by more than 12 million weekly listeners and Marketplace, the weekday evening program, is the largest business news program, on radio or TV, in the country. Marketplace programs are noted for their timely, relevant and accessible coverage of business, economic and personal finance focusing on the latest business news both nationally and internationally, the global economy and wider events linked to the financial markets. For more information on Marketplace visit marketplace.org. Source: Data are copyright Nielsen Audio and StreamGuys. Data are estimates only.  

Lynne Rossetto Kasper to Receive Lifetime Achievement Award

Award to be presented at International Association of Culinary Professionals conference in AprilSt. Paul, Minn., March 17, 2016— Lynne Rossetto Kasper, host of The Splendid Table, will receive a Lifetime Achievement Award at the International Association of Culinary Professionals (IACP) conference in Los Angeles on Sunday, April 3.  The award recognizes a culinary professional who has made noteworthy and lasting contributions to the culinary industry and who has demonstrated a continuing commitment to the culinary arts as a lifetime career.  Rossetto Kasper joins an auspicious list of previous Lifetime Achievement Award winners: Julia Child, Jacques Pepin, Marcela Hazan, Edna Lewis and Paul Prudhomme. The IACP is a worldwide forum for the development and exchange of information, knowledge, and inspiration within the professional food and beverage community.About Lynne Rossetto KasperLynne Rossetto Kasper has won numerous awards as host of The Splendid Table, including two James Beard Foundation Awards (1998, 2008) for Best National Radio Show on Food, five Clarion Awards (2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2014) from Women in Communication, and a Gracie Award in 2000 for Best Syndicated Talk Show. She is a respected authority on food, having published multiple bestselling books: The Splendid Table; The Italian Country Table; a series of quarterly e-books, Eating In with Lynne Rossetto Kasper, as well as the best-selling The Splendid Table's How To Eat Supper, How To Eat Weekends and A Summertime Grilling Guide, which were co-authored with founding producer Sally Swift.About The Splendid TableNow in its twentieth season, The Splendid Table is the show for life’s appetites. A culinary, culture and lifestyle program that celebrates the intersection of food and life, it can be heard on more than 400 public radio stations nationwide. The show is produced and distributed by American Public Media. Find The Splendid Table on Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, and Tumblr.About American Public Media GroupAmerican Public Media Group is the largest station-based public radio organization in America, combining multi-regional station operations, national programming creation and distribution, and innovative digital, social and mobile services in one organization. 19 million listeners tune in weekly to APMG’s national programming and regional stations on nearly 1,000 radio stations nationwide. American Public Media (APM), the national production and distribution arm of the organization, is one of the largest in the world with a portfolio that includes A Prairie Home Companion®, BBC World Service, Marketplace®, and the leading classical music programming in the nation. Supported financially by contributions from individual donors, sponsors, philanthropic foundations and the Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB), APMG’s regional operations include Minnesota Public Radio, a 45-station radio network serving nearly all of Minnesota and parts of surrounding states and Southern California Public Radio, a four-station network serving Los Angeles, Orange County, Ventura County and the Inland Empire. Launched in 2014, the Infinite Guest podcast network includes diverse offerings from best-selling authors to the best food, culture and comedy shows featured on public radio. APM’s lifestyle classical music stream, YourClassical, packages classical music in an unconventional and innovative way with streams suited for life’s biggest moments and everyday situations.

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MARKETPLACE-EDISON RESEARCH POLL FINDS INDIVIDUAL ECONOMIC ANXIETY HASN’T IMPROVED DESPITE MORE THAN A MILLION JOBS ADDED SINCE FALL 2015

Marketplace Economic Anxiety Index Stays Steady asAmericans Worry about Their Finances

LOS ANGELES, March 14, 2016--- Americans are still feeling anxious about the economy despite the addition of more than a million jobs and other improvements since last fall, according to the latest Marketplace-Edison Research Poll. Notably new in the poll’s findings is that a large number of Americans don’t feel they have someone or a network they could turn to if they needed help paying an unexpected bill. The poll also found that people are using savings from lower gas prices to help keep them from falling behind on monthly expenses.New Findings• Over half of the poll respondents say they would have difficulty paying an unexpected $1,000 bill. African-American respondents are more likely to report it would be “very difficult” to deal with an unexpected expense, and they are less likely to have someone to turn to for help.• More than a quarter of respondents say the lower gas prices are helping their personal financial situations “a lot.”Updated Comparative FindingsCompared to the last Marketplace-Edison Research Poll published in October 2015, there was little change in respondents’ answers in terms of their financial security and current financial situations. Given that consistency, the Marketplace Economic Anxiety Index – a measure of the financial stress people are feeling – remained steady at 31 on a scale from 0 to 100. Parsing the score by different demographic groups:• Those identifying as African-American (39) or Hispanic (37) had higher-than-average scores on the Anxiety Index.• People ages 35 to 54 had higher anxiety scores than other age groups.• Democrats show more financial anxiety (33) than Republicans (28)Nowhere to turn. Several questions asked Americans how well they were positioned to withstand surprise bills. Over half said they would have difficulty paying an unexpected $1,000 expense. About half of those who said it would be very or somewhat difficult to cope with that expense also said they did not have a friend or family member they could turn to for help. Demographically, African-American respondents were more likely to say in our poll that it would be “very difficult” to deal with an unexpected bill, and they are less likely to have someone to turn to for help.Are lower gas prices having a big impact on people’s finances? More than a quarter of respondents said lower gas prices are helping their personal financial situations “a lot.” The money saved on gas is having the largest impact on those most in need, with those fearful of missing mortgage or rent payment more likely to say gas prices had helped “a lot.”Marketplace-Edison Research Poll MethodologyThe Marketplace Edison Research Survey is a national survey of Americans ages 18 years and older. A total of 1,012 respondents were interviewed with 501 interviews conducted by telephone and 512 interviews conducted online. Among the telephone interviews, 300 were conducted via a landline phone and 201 interviews conducted via a cell phone so that we could achieve the proper proportion of coverage of households in the United States that do not have a landline phone. The landline and cell phone sample of phone numbers and the email addresses for the online survey were provided by Survey Sampling International (SSI).The average length of the telephone interviews was fourteen minutes. The telephone interviews were conducted from February 8th to 17th, 2016.The data was weighted to match the most recent United States population estimates from the U.S. Census Bureau for age, gender, race and region of the country.With a total sample size of 1,012 respondents, the calculated margin of error with a 95% confidence interval for results among the entire sample is +/- 3%. The calculated margins of error for results among smaller sub-groups are higher.The February wave of data is tracked with a previous wave, conducted September 8th to 18th, 2015, in which a total of 1,016 respondents were interviewed (501 conducted by telephone, 515 conducted online). The calculated margin of error for the September wave of data is also+/- 3% among the entire sample.About Edison ResearchEdison Research conducts survey research and provides strategic information to a broad array of clients, including Activision, AMC Theatres, Disney, Dolby Laboratories, Google, Gulf News, the U.S. International Broadcasting Bureau, Pandora, Samsung, Siemens, Sony, St. Jude Children’s Hospital, Time Warner and Yahoo. Edison Research works with many of the largest American radio ownership groups, including Bonneville, Emmis, Entercom, CBS Radio and Radio One. Another specialty for Edison is its work for media companies throughout the world, conducting research in North America, South America, Africa, Asia, and Europe. Edison Research is the sole provider of election exit poll data for the National Election Pool comprised of ABC, CBS, CNN, FOX, NBC and the Associated Press. Edison is also the leading provider of consumer exit polling and has conducted face-to-face research in almost every imaginable venue. All of Edison Research’s industry studies can be found on the company’s website at www.edisonresearch.com and can be downloaded free of charge.About MarketplaceMarketplace® is produced and distributed by American Public Media™ (APM), one of the largest producers and distributors of public radio programming in the world with a portfolio reaching 19 million listeners via nearly 1,000 radio stations nationwide each week. Produced in association with the University of Southern California, Marketplace® programs (Marketplace, Marketplace Weekend, Marketplace Morning Report and Marketplace Tech) are currently broadcast by nearly 800 public radio stations nationwide and heard by more than 12 million weekly listeners and Marketplace, the weekday evening program, is the largest business news program, on radio or TV, in the country. Marketplace’s digital audience is also robust, with more than 5 million podcast downloads and stream requests every month, on apps like iTunes, Slacker and TuneIn. Marketplace programs are noted for their timely, relevant and accessible coverage of business, economic and personal finance focusing on the latest business news both nationally and internationally, the global economy and wider events linked to the financial markets. For more information on Marketplace visit marketplace.org. Source: Data are copyright Nielsen Audio and StreamGuys. Data are estimates only.###

Are You Serious About Getting Curious?

Kids Science Podcast Brains On! Launches its Kickstarter Campaign Saint Paul, Minn.—February 16, 2016— Brains On!, a science podcast for kids, says it’s time to nourish the neurons. Today, the podcast launches its 30- day Kickstarter campaign with a $48,000 goal. Developed out of passion for science and a realization that no science podcasts for children existed, public radio reporters and producers from Minnesota and Southern California created this engaging and educational audio experience for children.  Now, the show wants to expand its reach and create even more unique, science-minded fun for kids of all ages.With $48,000, Brains On! will be able to recruit more kids across the country to participate as “kid co-hosts”,  create original science-themed songs and produce a National Parks series that explores the coolest facets of some of the most important parks in the country.A typical Brains On! episode runs about 15-25 minutes, making it perfect educational entertainment. Listen to it on road trips or while shuttling kiddos to and from soccer practice. It's a great pre-dinner companion, reward for a job well-done or one last bedtime story. Each show answers a question submitted by listeners and invites a “kid co-host” to help find answers by interviewing an expert like a food scientist, a meteorologist or a veterinarian. There are also songs and stories, the "Mystery Sound," and the Brains Honoroll, where fans around the world get a special shout out. All these elements blend together in a highly produced audio experience that kids love (and their curious adults think it's pretty special too).Here's a sample of the enthusiasm listeners have for Brains On!:“My son, Eli (from Dunlap, IL) just LOVES Brains On! and sharing all the fun knowledge he learns from the show! He has a question for the show: "How did people keep food cold and fresh before refrigeration?" Thanks.” “A big High-5 from Zoe and Otto in Nottingham, England. Your podcasts have been helping us enjoy our car trips in the last few months!” “Jasper is a huge Brains On fan. We were so inspired by the baking podcast we decided to try our hand at making bread!” “It is the perfect mix of silly and kid friendly but it is also extremely informational! It is full of kid sized definitions of somewhat difficult scientific ideas with the occasional vocabulary word thrown in. It gets us to talk to each other about interesting and creative things.”Tune in and nourish your neurons and then help Brains On! nourish its neurons during the next thirty days. Like our Facebook page or seek us out on Twitter and Instagram (we're @Brains_On on both). Your support will help bring Brains On! to more kids and allow the show to continue creating fresh fun content that will enrich kids around the world.About Brains On!Brains On! is a partnership between Minnesota Public Radio News (MPR News) and Southern California Public Radio (SCPR). MPR producers Molly Bloom and Marc Sanchez and SCPR science reporter Sanden Totten co-created the show in 2012. They have produced nearly 40 episodes and can be found on iTunes, Stitcher and streamed at www.brainson.org.

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American Public Media Group Selected as Host for American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS) Public Fellows Program

St. Paul, Minn., February 4, 2016—American Public Media Group is pleased to announce its selection as a host organization for the American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS) Public Fellows Program, a career-building fellowship initiative designed to expand the reach of doctoral education in the humanities. In 2016, the Public Fellows Program will place up to 21 recent PhDs from the humanities and humanistic social sciences in two-year staff positions at partnering organizations in government and the nonprofit sector. Fellows will participate in the substantive work of these organizations and will receive professional mentoring, an annual stipend of $65,000, and health insurance.At APMG, the fellow will help to implement a system to measure and track the racial, gender, age, religion and political persuasion of news sources throughout both broadcast and digital Minnesota Public Radio News content, and to grow, diversify, and use APM’s Public Insight Network (PIN) to drive more inclusive content and programming.“It’s an honor to host this position, which will help our news teams, editors and other leaders create and execute strategies for diversifying voices in our news and programming,” said Mike Edgerly, news director, Minnesota Public Radio News. “We’re also excited, through this work, to fuel a broader conversation that media and American Public Media in particular is having around inclusiveness and the need to connect sourcing, content, audience development, staffing and workplace culture.”The fellowship competition is accepting applications through March 24, 2016 (8 p.m. EDT). For more information, please visit http://www.acls.org/programs/publicfellowscomp/.ACLS Public Fellows is a fellowship program offered by the American Council of Learned Societies with generous funding from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.  Please direct all inquiries about the fellowship program to ACLS. 

The Splendid Table and America's Test Kitchen Announce Partnership

Molly Birnbaum of America’s Test Kitchen to join The Splendid Table as a monthly contributorSt. Paul, Minn., Feb. 4, 2016-  America’s Test Kitchen, the home cook’s essential resource for recipes that work, together with The Splendid Table, a nationally syndicated public radio program, today announced a strategic partnership to join forces on upcoming content that will expand the culinary conversation and explore the science of food. Molly Birnbaum, Executive Editor of Cook’s Science at America’s Test Kitchen, will contribute monthly segments focusing on food science.The first segment will air the weekend of February 5, 2016 and address techniques for handling a kitchen essential: onions and garlic. The second segment airing the weekend of March 18, 2016 takes a look at the “why’s” behind lamb’s distinctive flavor and how we as coo ks can control it.  Easy-to-follow recipes will be included with all segments. Birnbaum was the project editor of the New York Times-bestselling The Science of Good Cooking, as well as the forthcoming Cook’s Science cookbook (publishing October 2016).“The decision to work with America’s Test Kitchen was an easy one for us,” said Sally Swift, managing producer and co-creator of The Splendid Table. “For two decades we’ve been on a mission to get people to enjoy food and to understand that some sort of home cooking is essential.  Often, success in the kitchen is a matter of internalizing the common sense of cooking, which, when push-comes-to-shove, is often about science. Molly is excellent at breaking down the science into ideas and concepts that every cook, no matter what their level can understand.”In recent years, a number of media programs have joined forces to enhance content and create additional touchpoints with target audiences. As two highly regarded food media outlets, a partnership between America’s Test Kitchen and The Splendid Table is a natural fit.“We have always admired The Splendid Table for their unique content, engaging format and loyal fan base,” said David Nussbaum, CEO of America’s Test Kitchen. “It only made sense for us to work together to both strengthen our content and bring something new to The Splendid Table audience.”The collaboration will help open the door to a new and wider audience and give people a preview of what’s to come for America’s Test Kitchen and The Splendid Table.For more information visit – splendidtable.orgAbout America’s Test KitchenAmerica's Test Kitchen began with a single magazine title, Cook's Illustrated, which debuted in 1992. The America's Test Kitchen television show was launched in 2001, after which the company added Cook's Country magazine, a second television program, an online cooking school, three websites that offer recipes and online video, and a robust book program that publishes a dozen new titles a year, which regularly land on bestseller lists. Learn more at https://www.americastestkitchen.com/.Molly Birnbaum is Executive Editor of Cook’s Science at America’s Test Kitchen. She is project editor of the New York Times-bestselling The Science of Good Cooking (2012), as well as the forthcoming Cook’s Science cookbook (2016), and is a monthly contributor to The Splendid Table. An alum of Columbia’s Graduate School of Journalism, Molly is also author of the memoir Season to Taste: How I Lost My Sense of Smell and Found My Way, a personal inquiry into the science and psychology of the sense of smell, published by Ecco/HarperCollins and shortlisted for an IACP award in Literary Food Writing in 2011. She was the founding managing editor of Modern Farmer magazine, a print quarterly and daily website, which won a National Magazine award in its first year (2013). Her writing has appeared in the New York Times, ARTnews magazine, Fast Company, NPR's Cognoscenti, and O, The Oprah Magazine, among others.About The Splendid TableNow in its twentieth season, The Splendid Table is the show for life’s appetites. A culinary, culture and lifestyle program that celebrates the intersection of food and life, it can be heard on more than 400 public radio stations nationwide. The show is produced and distributed by American Public Media and has been listed on numerous “best of” podcast lists including a recent nod by the Huffington Post’s Food Editor as the top food podcast to listen to in 2016.Lynne Rossetto Kasper has won numerous awards as host of The Splendid Table, including two James Beard Foundation Awards (1998, 2008) for Best National Radio Show on Food, five Clarion Awards (2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2014) from Women in Communication, and a Gracie Allen Award in 2000 for Best Syndicated Talk Show. Lynne is a respected authority on food, having published multiple bestselling books: The Splendid Table; The Italian Country Table; a series of quarterly e-books, Eating In with Lynne Rossetto Kasper, as well as the best-selling The Splendid Table's How To Eat Supper, How To Eat Weekends and A Summertime Grilling Guide, which were co-authored with founding producer Sally Swift.Find The Splendid Table on Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, and Tumblr.###

New Podcast “Unretirement” Inspires Reimagining the Second Half of Life

Host and economics journalist Chris Farrell presents stories of workers who daredto imagine a new kind of ‘retirement’

(November 16, 2015)—Saint Paul, Minn. --- Today, American Public Media launches Unretirement, a new podcast for adults reimagining the second half of life, hosted by journalist and author Chris Farrell. Unretirement will introduce listeners to people who are redefining the traditional retirement years. They are finding meaning and money by pursuing entrepreneurship, working flexible hours and at part-time jobs. Chris also interviews experts who offer practical advice on how others can take a similar path.“The word ‘unretirement’ represents a grassroots movement that is rethinking and reimaging the second half of life,” says Farrell. “It means figuring out how we as a society and as individuals can take advantage of more vigorous aging to make the world a better place for us and for future generations.”Over the inaugural season’s eight episodes, listeners will be introduced to people such as a Taiko drummer who left her stable music director job to form her own ensemble, grandparents who moved from California to Washington D.C. to create a multigenerational household and a recently retired Minnesota State Supreme Court Justice (and former professional football player) Alan Page working more deeply with his foundation that mentors students and provides scholarship opportunities.“The podcast isn’t only targeted at aging boomers.  Unretirement is part of alarger conversation about aging and work, purpose and a paycheck,” says Farrell. “Whether you’re a twentysomething recent college graduate or a sixtysomething worker, these unretirement stories should inspire you to reimagine work and aging.”Unretirement will be available each week on Tuesdays. Listeners can download it on iTunes. It can also be streamed at www.unretirement.fm About Chris FarrellChris Farrell is senior economics contributor at Marketplace, American Public Media’s nationally syndicated public radio business and economic programs. He is economics commentator for Minnesota Public Radio. An award-winning journalist, Chris is a columnist for Next Avenue and the Star Tribune. His latest book is Unretirement: How Baby Boomers are Changing the Way We Think About Work, Community and the Good Life. (Bloomsbury Press, September 2014)About American Public Media GroupAmerican Public Media Group (APMG) is the largest station-based public radio organization in America, combining multi-regional station operations, national programming creation and distribution as well as innovative digital, social and mobile services in one organization. 19 million listeners tune in weekly to APMG’s national programming and regional stations on nearly 1,000 radio stations nationwide. American Public Media (APM), the national production and distribution arm of the organization, is one of the largest in the world with a portfolio that includes A Prairie Home Companion®, BBC World Service, Marketplace®, and the leading classical music programming in the nation. Supported financially by contributions from individual donors, sponsors, philanthropic foundations and the Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB), APMG’s regional operations include Minnesota Public Radio, a 45-station radio network serving nearly all of Minnesota and parts of surrounding states and Southern California Public Radio, a four-station network serving Los Angeles, Orange County, Ventura County and the Inland Empire. Launched in 2014, the Infinite Guest podcast network includes diverse offerings from best-selling authors to the best food, culture and comedy shows featured on public radio. APM’s lifestyle classical music stream, YourClassical, packages classical music in an unconventional and innovative way with streams suited for life’s biggest moments and everyday situations. Source: Data are copyright Nielsen Audio. Data are estimates only.

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“Is it Evil?” Asks the New Binge-able Podcast from Marketplace

Podcast offers options to unlock a code to immediately listen to the next episode

(November 11, 2015)—New York --- Marketplace, in partnership with Tech Insider, is launching its new podcast called Codebreaker, exploring themes at the intersection of technology, the Internet and culture. Unlike other podcasts, Codebreaker will be available for binge listening if listeners can unlock a code. Otherwise, it will come out weekly on Wednesdays.Hosted by Ben Brock Johnson of American Public Media’s Marketplace Tech, Codebreaker will explore the question of, “Is it evil?” in this premiere season. This question will be asked about a piece of technology or a facet of the internet in each episode. Through original reporting, interviews, stories and discussions with other tech enthusiasts, this sound-rich and tightly produced show will engage listeners to tune into the technology in  their lives and examine how it relates to them for good or evil or maybe both.“I’m excited to bring something new and different to the tech podcasting space. There are great options out there for those who want news or gadget reviews--including our daily show Marketplace Tech,” say Johnson. “Codebreaker is more focused on asking deeper questions about technology and doing longer reporting on how it's affecting us. We try to do that with a sense of awe, a sense of humor, and sometimes, yes, a sense of dread.”Just as people binge-watch television, starting today, on November 11^th, listeners will get to binge-listen to Codebreaker by becoming decoders themselves. Using clues provided throughout the episode, they can go to http://www.codebreaker.codes/ and unlock the code to start listening to the next episode. However, each new episode will still be available for download every Wednesday if listeners do not partake in codebreaking.“If we can binge-watch television while it is in its golden age, then why not binge-listen to podcasts?” adds Johnson. “The codebreaking or puzzle-solving aspect lets us connect with listeners in a fun way that we think is unique. We think anybody who loves doing the crossword, sudoku, or challenging their brain a little bit to get a prize will enjoy cracking the codes with us. If you get to the end, you just might find out what we've got in store for season two!"Codebreaker also draws on reporting from the newsroom at Tech Insider, a new site from Business Insider focusing on technology, science, culture and innovation."We're thrilled to work with the team at Marketplace and to try our hand at podcasts. Codebreaker will definitely change how a lot of people look at tech," said Gus Lubin, Editor-in-chief of Tech Insider.Tech Insider will complement each episode through multimedia stories, videos or features, in addition to editorial contributions to many episodes.About MarketplaceMarketplace® is produced and distributed by American Public Media™ (APM), one of the largest producers and distributors of public radio programming in the world with a portfolio reaching 19 million listeners via nearly 1,000 radio stations nationwide each week. Produced in association with the University of Southern California, Marketplace® programs (Marketplace, Marketplace Weekend, Marketplace Morning Report and Marketplace Tech) are currently broadcast by nearly 800 public radio stations nationwide and heard by more than 12 million weekly listeners and Marketplace, the weekday evening program, is the largest business news program, on radio or TV, in the country. Marketplace’s digital audience is also robust, with more than 5 million podcast downloads and stream requests every month, on apps like iTunes, Slacker and TuneIn. Marketplace programs are noted for their timely, relevant and accessible coverage of business, economic and personal finance focusing on the latest business news both nationally and internationally, the global economy and wider events linked to the financial markets. For more information on Marketplace visit marketplace.org. Source: Data are copyright Nielsen Audio and StreamGuys. Data are estimates only.About Tech InsiderTech Insider is a cutting-edge digital property covering technology, science, culture, and innovation. Its mission is to capture how tech is changing the world we live in, with original reporting and perspective, photography, video, and podcasts. Tech Insider launched in August with a newsroom of nearly 40 journalists. Its audience has quickly grown to 11 million monthly uniques, nearly 200 million monthly video views, and nearly a million Facebook followers.

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American Public Media Group Sets New Direction for Classical Music Service in South Florida

Radio Stations in Miami, West Palm Beach and Naplesto be sold to Educational Media Foundation

Contact: Angie Andresenaandresen@americanpublicmedia.org651-290-1373ST. PAUL, Minn., July 14, 2015 – Recognizing that media consumption and audience choices are rapidly changing, and that efforts to build a sustainable classical music radio service in South Florida have not succeeded, American Public Media Group (APMG) announced today that it will move its classical music service in South Florida from FM radio to its national on-demand service, YourClassical.org. This new direction includes the sale of its Classical South Florida (CSF) network of stations — WKCP-FM in Miami (classical music), WPBI-FM in West Palm Beach (classical music and news), and WNPS-FM in Naples (classical music) — to Educational Media Foundation (EMF), a not-for-profit organization that operates non-commercial radio stations.WKCP is owned by American Public Media Group, while WPBI and WNPS are owned by Classical South Florida, an APMG subsidiary. APMG and CSF will transfer ownership of the stations to EMF, upon approval by the Federal Communications Commission. EMF will begin broadcasting contemporary Christian programming on these stations this week.“We are proud of the classical music service we’ve provided to hundreds of thousands of South Floridians on FM radio,” said Jon McTaggart, president and CEO of APMG. “As audience expectations and needs have changed, along with changes in media technology and the music economy, it’s clear we must change the ways we deliver and sustain our services. We’ve been working to build Classical South Florida since 2007, and we’ve not succeeded in providing the distinctive value that motivates a sustainable level of support. APMG produces and presents world-class classical music for millions of Americans, every week, and we must constantly adapt to ensure that more people can access our public services on-the-air, online and on stage.”Although APMG had not been actively looking to sell its CSF stations, APMG received an unsolicited offer to purchase the CSF network and accepted that offer following the approval of both the APMG and CSF boards of trustees.“We are deeply grateful to every member, donor, volunteer and sponsor who has supported CSF for nearly eight years,” McTaggart said. “We will continue to serve classical music audiences, across Florida and across the country, in new and sustainable ways for many more years to come.”American Public Media Group:American Public Media Group is the largest station-based public radio organization in America, combining multi-regional station operations, national programming creation and distribution, and innovative digital/social/mobile services in one organization. With a portfolio that includes A Prairie Home Companion®, BBC World Service, Marketplace®, and the leading classical music programming in the nation, American Public Media (APM) is one the largest producers and distributors of public radio programming in the world. Supported financially by contributions from individual donors, sponsors, philanthropic foundations and the Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB), APMG’s regional operations include Minnesota Public Radio and Southern California Public Radio

MPR News and The Current Win Society of Professional Journalists Awards

(St. Paul, Minn.)—May 19, 2015—Minnesota Public Radio received nine first place Page One awards and received the Story of the Year award from the Minnesota Chapter of the Society of Professional Journalists (SPJ), at its annual awards ceremony hosted by MPR News host Tom Weber. For the second year in a row, “Betrayed by Silence”, the MPR News investigative series into the Archdiocese of Saint Paul and Minneapolis, won Story of the Year. The Current took home first place for “Best Social Media Account”.Full list of Awards:Special AwardsStory of the YearFirst Place: MPR Newsroom, MPR News"Betrayed by Silence"Best Social Media Account – InstitutionalOnlineFirst Place: Jay Gabler, Luke Taylor, Leah Garaas, Andrea Swensson, Minnesota PublicRadio / The CurrentThe Current on Facebook, Twitter & InstagramBest Continuing CoverageOnlineFirst Place: MPR Newsroom, MPR News"Betrayed by Silence"3rd place: Andrea Swensson, Jay Gabler“The 400 Bar saga”Spot/Breaking NewsRadioFirst Place: Newsroom staff, MPR News"Officer Patrick shot and killed"Hard News ReportRadioFirst Place: Trisha Volpe, Laura McCallum, Will Lager, Manda Lillie, MPR News"Focus on concussions transforms high school football in Minnesota"Special Project/In-depth SeriesRadioFirst Place: Dan Gunderson, Kate Smith, MPR News"Rail Safety"InvestigativeRadioFirst Place: Catharine Richert, Elizabeth Stawicki, Bill Catlin, MPR News"Management, technology failures, miscommunication plagued MNsure"Best Use of MultimediaOnlineThird Place: Dan Gunderson, Will Lager, Jeffrey Thompson, Jackson Forderer, MPR News"Mystery trains: Crews, communities in the dark on chemical cargo"Best News VideoOnlineFirst Place: Molly Bloom, Curtis Gilbert, Bob Medcraft, Sam Heyn, MPR News"Choo Choo Bob explains the Southwest light rail line conundrum"Best Newsroom BlogOnlineFirst Place: Bob Collins, MPR NewsNewsCutBest News PhotographyFirst Place: Jennifer Simonson, Jeffrey Thompson, MPR News"Slain police officer laid to rest"Best Sports PhotographyFirst Place: Jennifer Simonson, Jeffrey Thompson, Caroline Yang, MPR News"Photos: Kayaker braves raging Minnehaha Falls"