NPR
NPR (National Public Radio) is a United States-based nonprofit media organization providing radio and online news. It distributes programming to a network of public radio stations and is known for in-depth reporting and analysis of national and international affairs. Its coverage is generally regarded as left-of-center by the major media-bias assessments.
NPR at a glance
- Country
- United States
- Region
- North America · Americas
- Kind of outlet
- Public broadcaster
- Editorial leaning
- Left-leaning
- Founded
- 1970
- Ownership
- An independent non-profit funded by member stations and donors
- Published from
- Washington, D.C.
- Website
- npr.org ↗
- Preview
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How Crosswire groups NPR
Crosswire groups NPR as Left-leaning for comparisons within the United States' directory. This is an approximate Crosswire label, not a verified rating of its individual articles or a claim that every journalist shares one position. In the United States, USA Today and NBC News are listed as Centrist, while Fox News is listed as Right-leaning — so you can open NPR beside a title of a different orientation and compare the same day's front pages directly.
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Where NPR sits in the United States' press
NPR was founded in 1970, is published from Washington, D.C. and is an independent non-profit funded by member stations and donors. It is one of 14 outlets tracked in the United States and the only public broadcaster tracked there. By outlets tracked, the United States ranks first of the 35 countries on Crosswire's Americas hub, which lists 165 outlets in all.
Across the Americas, Crosswire tracks 8 of the 59 public broadcasters in the directory. The nearest counterparts to NPR outside the United States, starting with North America, are NBC SVG (St. Vincent & the Grenadines), RPP Noticias (Peru), CBC News (Canada) and CBC Barbados (Barbados). Opening one of them beside NPR is the quickest way to see what is a house style and what is a national one.
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