American Public Media (APM) is an American company that produces and distributes public radio programs in the United States, the second largest company of its type after

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. Its non-profit parent,

American Public Media Group American Public Media Group, formerly the Minnesota Communications Group, is the non-profit parent organization of Minnesota Public Radio, American Public Media, and Southern California Public Radio. Jean Taylor is APMG's President and CEO. His ...

, also owns and operates radio stations in

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and

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. Its station brands include

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and Southern California Public Radio. Based in

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, APM is best known for distribution of the national financial news program ''

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''.About us
American Public Media. Retrieved on 2008-05-20.

Historical ties to Public Radio International

Formerly, much of American Public Media's programming content was distributed by Public Radio International, which itself was named "American Public Radio", or APR, until July 1, 1994. APR was formed by four stations—the

network, WGBH in Boston,

WNYC WNYC is the trademark and a set of call letters shared by WNYC (AM) and WNYC-FM, a pair of nonprofit, noncommercial, public radio stations located in New York City. WNYC is owned by New York Public Radio (NYPR), a nonprofit organization th ...

in New York, and

KUSC KUSC (91.5 FM) is a listener-supported classical music radio station broadcasting from downtown Los Angeles, California, United States. KUSC is owned and operated by the University of Southern California, which also operates student-run Internet ...

in Los Angeles—to distribute ''

A Prairie Home Companion ''A Prairie Home Companion'' is a weekly radio variety show created and hosted by Garrison Keillor that aired live from 1974 to 2016. In 2016, musician Chris Thile took over as host, and the successor show was eventually renamed '' Live from ...

''. PRI owns and produces numerous programs today, but still also distributes diverse programming from many sources. In contrast, APM, which was founded in 2004, predominantly distributes content that it owns and produces itself; exceptions include ''

The Story with Dick Gordon ''The Story with Dick Gordon'' was a weekday interview program hosted by Dick Gordon, former host of WBUR's '' The Connection'' and, before that, fill-in host for the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation's national radio program ''This Morning''. ...

'' (which ended production in October 2013), the distribution to US stations of the

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, and the

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broadcasts from

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. The split happened as MPR and PRI began seeing each other more as potential competitors after MPR lost the partnership to WGBH to produce ''

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'', and MPR purchased PRI-distributed ''Marketplace'' for its own distribution channels.

APM Reports

APM Reports is the

investigative journalism Investigative journalism is a form of journalism in which reporters deeply investigate a single topic of interest, such as serious crimes, political corruption, or corporate wrongdoing. An investigative journalist may spend months or years res ...

unit of APM, based in St. Paul, Minnesota. Established in November 2015, APM Reports' journalists are drawn from

and the former

American RadioWorks American Public Media (APM) is an American company that produces and distributes public radio programs in the United States, the second largest company of its type after NPR. Its non-profit parent, American Public Media Group, also owns and op ...

. It produces documentary as well as investigative journalism. In 2019, APM Reports journalists

Madeleine Baran Madeleine Baran is an American investigative journalist. She is best known as the lead reporter for the APM podcast '' In the Dark''. She has received accolades including three Peabody Awards, a Gracie Award and two Sigma Delta Chi Awards for her ...

and Samara Freemark received a

Polk Award The George Polk Awards in Journalism are a series of American journalism awards presented annually by Long Island University in New York in the United States. A writer for Idea Lab, a group blog hosted on the website of PBS, described the awar ...

for season 2 of '' In the Dark'', their investigation into the case of

Curtis Flowers Curtis Giovanni Flowers (born May 29, 1970) is an American man who was tried for murder six times in the U.S. state of Mississippi. Four of the trials resulted in convictions, all of which were overturned on appeal. Flowers was alleged to hav ...

, who was tried six times for a quadruple murder in

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in 1996. This was the first Polk Award given to a

podcast A podcast is a program made available in digital format for download over the Internet. For example, an episodic series of digital audio or video files that a user can download to a personal device to listen to at a time of their choosing ...

. The ''In the Dark'' journalists also won two

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s, in 2016 and 2020, for the first and second seasons of ''In the Dark''.

APM Research Lab

APM Research Lab is the research and

data journalism Data journalism or data-driven journalism (DDJ) is a journalistic process based on analyzing and filtering large data sets for the purpose of creating or elevating a news story. Data journalism is a type of journalism reflecting the increased ...

unit of American Public Media. The Lab was established in 2017 under the leadership of

's CEO Jon McTaggart and EVP

Dave Kansas David Kansas (born March 28, 1967) was the president of American Public Media until a restructuring in March 2022. He had also served as chief operating officer of American Public Media Group, a position he assumed in 2011. He was formerly an edit ...

with the hiring of its inaugural Managing Partner, Craig Helmstetter. The Lab was created to further strengthen APM's commitment to factual information as indicated by the tagline "bringing facts into focus." The unit has conducted several research projects in collaboration with newsrooms within the

and beyond, including partnerships with

Minnesota Public Radio News KNOW-FM (91.1 FM) is the flagship radio station of Minnesota Public Radio's news and information network, primarily broadcasting a talk radio format to the Minneapolis-St. Paul market. The frequency was the original home of KSJN, but the purc ...

, and PBS/Frontline and the Texas Newsroom. In 2020 the Lab began publishing a project calle
Color of Coronavirus
that tracks deaths due to

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by race and ethnicity in each U.S. state as well as the nation as a whole. This project has been cited hundreds of times, including by

The Guardian ''The Guardian'' is a British daily newspaper A newspaper is a periodical publication containing written information about current events and is often typed in black ink with a white or gray background. Newspapers can cover a wide ...

The Atlantic ''The Atlantic'' is an American magazine and multi-platform publisher. It features articles in the fields of politics, foreign affairs, business and the economy, culture and the arts, technology, and science. It was founded in 1857 in Boston, ...

Newsweek ''Newsweek'' is an American weekly online news magazine co-owned 50 percent each by Dev Pragad, its president and CEO, and Johnathan Davis, who has no operational role at ''Newsweek''. Founded as a weekly print magazine in 1933, it was widely ...

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, and the

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Classical South Florida

Until July 2015, APM operated

Classical South Florida Classical South Florida was a radio network serving South Florida, owned by the American Public Media Group. Its stations carried classical music programming from American Public Media's Classical 24 service, as well as programs such as ''Performan ...

(WMLV-FM 89.7), which was sold to

Educational Media Foundation Educational Media Foundation (formerly EMF Broadcasting, abbreviated EMF) is an American nonprofit Christian media ministry based in Franklin, Tennessee, a suburb of Nashville. EMF is the parent company of K-LOVE and Air1—the world's large ...

, a California-based religious broadcasting company that airs contemporary Christian music; it now brands itself as a K-Love station.

Programs distributed

APM also distributes: * ''

'' * ''

Classical 24 Classical 24 is a syndicated, satellite-delivered public radio service providing classical music to its carrying stations. It generally airs overnights on many non-commercial and a handful of commercial classical music stations. However, the s ...

'' * ''Composers Datebook'' * '' The Daily'' * ''

'' * ''Marketplace Morning Report'' * ''Marketplace Tech'' * ''Marketplace Minute'' * ''The Dinner Party Download'' * ''

On Point ''On Point'' is a radio show produced by WBUR-FM in Boston and syndicated by American Public Media (APM). The show addresses a wide range of issues from news, politics, arts and culture, health, technology, environmental, and business topics, t ...

'' * ''

Performance Today ''Performance Today'' is a Peabody Award-winning classical music radio program, first aired in 1987 and hosted since 2000 by Fred Child. It is the most listened-to daily classical music radio program in the United States, with 1.2 million listen ...

'' * ''

Pipedreams ''Pipedreams'' is a radio music program produced and distributed by American Public Media (APM) based in Saint Paul, Minnesota, created and hosted since its inception by J. Michael Barone. History Each one or two-hour show features organ mu ...

'' * ''

The Splendid Table ''The Splendid Table'' is a weekly radio program about food hosted by Francis Lam. The program began in 1997 on Minnesota Public Radio, and was originally hosted by Lynne Rossetto Kasper until her retirement in 2017. It is produced and distri ...

'' * ''SymphonyCast'' Several specials are also distributed by APM on a less frequent basis, including a number of

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programs,

Giving Thanks ''Giving Thanks'' is an American Public Media radio special that airs nationwide on Thanksgiving Day. It is hosted by John Birge. The show consists of classical music, songs, and dramatic readings all related to Thanksgiving. Although the format ...

Thanksgiving Thanksgiving is a national holiday celebrated on various dates in the United States, Canada, Grenada, Saint Lucia, Liberia, and unofficially in countries like Brazil and Philippines. It is also observed in the Netherlander town of Leiden ...

, and the ''

''.

People

, host and lead reporter of ''In The Dark'' *

Lynne Rossetto Kasper Lynne Rossetto Kasper is an American food writer and radio journalist. She was the founding host of the American Public Media program ''The Splendid Table'', whose targeted audience is "people who love to eat." The weekly program features a series ...

, former host of ''The Splendid Table'' *

Francis Lam Francis Lam is an American food journalist, cookbook editor, and since 2017 the host of American Public Media's ''The Splendid Table''. Early life and education Lam was born to Chinese immigrant parents living in New Jersey and working in Manha ...

, host of ''The Splendid Table'' *

Nora McInerny Nora McInerny is an American author. She writes about dealing with grief and loss, drawing on her personal experience of miscarrying a child and losing both her father and husband to cancer within several weeks in 2014. Early life and education No ...

, host of ''Terrible, Thanks for Asking'' *

John Moe John Moe (born July 10, 1968) is an American writer and radio personality. Early life Moe grew up in Federal Way, Washington and graduated from Whitman College. Career Moe was originally hired at KUOW in 2001 as a staff writer for ''Rewind'', a ...

, former host of ''Hilarious World of Depression'' *

Kai Ryssdal Kai Ryssdal (; born October 8, 1963) is an American radio journalist and the host of ''Marketplace'', a business program that airs weekdays on U.S. public radio stations. He also co-hosts the spinoff podcast '' Make Me Smart'' with Kimberly Adams ...

, host of ''

'' and co-host of ''Make Me Smart with Kai and Molly'' *

Molly Wood Molly Kristin Wood (born May 23, 1975) is an American venture capitalist, podcast host, and journalist. Early life and education Molly Wood was born in Helena, Montana on May 23, 1975. She graduated in May 1997 with a BA in journalism with a mi ...

, ''Marketplace'' tech correspondent and co-host of ''Make Me Smart with Kai and Molly'' *

, former President of American Public Media

References

External links

*
''Current'', the newspaper about public TV and radio in the United States
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