I’m a big fan of NPR and I’ve always enjoyed the fact that they allow me to access their content however I want. Recently I created a personal NPR station (pictured above) of sorts in google reader. I cherry-picked the programs I care about and added them as RSS feeds, which allows me to listen to them right from google reader. Pure convenience.
Related, Fast Company has an in-depth article about NPR that’s worth a read. Here are a few interesting tidbits from the article:
- NPR’s median radio listener is 49; its median podcast listener is 33.
- Forty-three percent of NPR’s budget comes from the dues and fees member stations send in
- NPR’s audience may be surprisingly balanced among liberals, conservatives, and moderates, but it’s overwhelmingly college-educated and affluent.
- In one of the great under-told media success stories of the past decade, NPR has emerged not as the bespectacled schoolmarm of our imagination but as a massive news machine poised for what Dick Meyer, editorial director for digital media, half-jokingly calls “world domination.” NPR’s listenership has nearly doubled since 1999, even as newspaper circulation dropped off a cliff
