WNYC is an audio service brand,under the control of New York Public Radio,a non-profit organization. Radio and other audio programming is primarily provided by a pair of nonprofit,noncommercial,public radio stations:WNYC (AM) and WNYC-FM,located in New York City. Both stations are members of NPR and carry local and national news/talk programs.
WQXR-FM is an American non-commercial classical radio station,licensed to Newark,New Jersey,and serving the North Jersey and New York City area. It is owned by the nonprofit organization New York Public Radio (NYPR),which also operates WNYC (AM),WNYC-FM and the four-station New Jersey Public Radio group. WQXR-FM broadcasts from studios and offices located in the Hudson Square neighborhood in lower Manhattan and its transmitter is located at the Empire State Building. The station is the core audio service for NYPR's WQXR brand.
On the Media (OTM) is a public radio show and podcast from WNYC Studios that primarily covers the media. Since relaunching in 2001 with Brooke Gladstone as host,the show has received at least ten awards,including two Peabody Awards.
John Charles Hockenberry is an American journalist and author. He has reported from all over the world,on a wide variety of stories in several mediums for more than three decades. He has written dozens of magazine and newspaper articles,a play,and two books,including the bestselling memoir Moving Violations:War Zones,Wheelchairs,and Declarations of Independence, which was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award,and the novel A River Out Of Eden. He has written for The New York Times,The New Yorker,Wired,The Columbia Journalism Review,Metropolis,The Washington Post,and Harper's Magazine.
Adaora Udoji is an American journalist and producer. She has worked in virtual reality (VR),augmented reality (AR),and artificial intelligence (AI). She is an adviser to VR-AR Association-NYC Chapter,an adjunct professor at NYU's Interactive Telecommunications Program at the Tisch School of the Arts,and an occasional investor.
New York Public Radio (NYPR) is a New York City-based independent,publicly supported,not-for-profit media organization incorporated in 1979. Its stated mission is "To make the mind more curious,the heart more open and the spirit more joyful through excellent audio programming that is deeply rooted in New York."
Radiolab is a radio program and podcast produced by WNYC,a public radio station based in New York City,and broadcast on more than 570 public radio stations in the United States. The show has earned many industry awards for its "imaginative use of radio" including a National Academies Communication Award and two Peabody Awards.
WNYC-FM (93.9 MHz) is a non-commercial public radio station,licensed to New York,New York. It,along with WNYC (AM),is one of the primary outlets for WNYC branded programming provided by the non-profit New York Public Radio (NYPR).
The Takeaway was a weekday radio news program co-created and co-produced by Public Radio International and WNYC. Its editorial partner was GBH;at launch the BBC World Service and The New York Times were also editorial partners. In addition to co-producing the program,PRX also distributed the program nationwide to its affiliated stations. The program debuted on WNYC in New York,WGBH in Boston,and WEAA in Baltimore. At time of its last broadcast,the program had approximately 241 carrying stations across the country,including markets in New York,Los Angeles,Chicago,San Francisco,Miami,Portland,Boston,and more.
John Schaefer is an American radio host and author. A longtime host at WNYC,Schaefer began hosting the influential radio shows New Sounds in 1982 and Soundcheck in 2002,and has produced many different programs for other New York Public Radio platforms. Schaefer is also the author of the book New Sounds:A Listener's Guide to New Music,first published in 1987.
Suki Kim is a Korean American journalist and writer. She is the author of two books:the award-winning novel The Interpreter and a book of investigative journalism,Without You,There Is No Us:Undercover Among the Sons of North Korea's Elite. Kim is the only writer ever to have lived undercover in North Korea to conduct immersive journalism. Kim is currently a contributing editor at The New Republic.
Robert Sherman was an American radio broadcaster,author,music critic,and educator. He achieved success as a host of such radio programs as the folk music show Woody's Children,which started on WQXR and was later broadcast by WFUV,and classical music shows The Listening Room and Young Artists Showcase,which were broadcast by WQXR in New York City. As an author,he was a music critic and columnist for The New York Times for more than forty years as well as a writer of numerous books,including two bestsellers he co-authored with pianist and comedian Victor Borge. In May 2023,Sherman retired from radio. A month later,he died at age 90.
New Jersey Public Radio (NJPR) is an NPR member network serving portions of northern New Jersey on four licensed stations:88.1 WNJT-FM in Trenton,88.5 WNJP in Sussex,89.3 WNJY in Netcong,and 90.3 WNJO in Toms River,which were the four northernmost radio stations of the New Jersey Network (NJN) until 2011. NJPR is owned by New York Public Radio (NYPR),which also owns the two WNYC and two WQXR-FM stations. NJPR primarily serves northern New Jersey residents who are unable to get a clear signal from the WNYC stations. The network went on the air on July 1,2011,after NJN ended operations the day before.
David Garland is a singer-songwriter,composer,instrument designer,illustrator,graphic designer,journalist,and former New York city radio personality.
Beth Fertig is a New York City-based editor and writer who was previously a senior education editor at the XQ Institute,a nonprofit foundation dedicated to improving U.S. high schools. She was previously an award-winning veteran journalist at the New York City public radio station WNYC,and was a regular contributor to NPR's news programs. She covered many beats while at WNYC. These included local politics during Rudy Giuliani's administration,the 9/11 attacks,education,transportation and immigration. In 2005,NPR sent her on a monthlong assignment to KRVS cover the impact of Hurricane Katrina in Lafayette,LA,which received tens of thousands of evacuees from New Orleans. She is also the author of the education book "Why cant u teach me 2 read? Three Students and a Mayor Put Our Schools to the Test".
Matt Katz is an American journalist.
WNYC Studios is a producer and distributor of podcasts and on-demand and broadcast audio. WNYC Studios is a subsidiary of New York Public Radio and is headquartered in New York City.
Dr. Indira Etwaroo garners various titles such as producer,educator,artist,and scholar. On January 26,2015,she was appointed as Executive Director of The Center for Arts and Culture at Bedford Stuyvesant Restoration Corporation. She has been described as “a seeker of meaning,of relevance,of values;and a meaning-maker;searching for relationships,striving towards depths of understanding and seeking transformation.”As the Executive Director,she aims to bring together "all of these already successful arts-related endeavors under one umbrella," and to "re-imagine them from a multi-disciplinary point of view.”She oversees and directs the Billie Holiday Theatre,Youth Arts Academy,Skylight Gallery,and Restoration Plaza’s Presenting Program in her position in The Center for Arts and Culture. The mission of CAC is "to present,promote,and preserve the artistic legacy of the African Diaspora and further the artistic development of the community." In 2009,Dr. Indira Etwaroo was listed in the Forty Under 40 Dynamic Achievers Award.
Tanzina Vega is an American journalist whose positions have ranged from weekday host of The Takeaway,a public radio show,to CNNMoney national reporter for race and inequality in America,to staff reporter at The New York Times,where she created and covered a beat on race and ethnicity for the national desk,as well as reporting for the metro section and business desk.
Notes from America with Kai Wright, formerly known as The United States of Anxiety is a nationally-syndicated,live call-in show that situates current events within on a political and historical contexts. The show is produced by WNYC Studios.
