{"id":65070,"date":"2022-01-13T16:25:31","date_gmt":"2022-01-13T23:25:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/?p=65070"},"modified":"2022-01-13T16:25:31","modified_gmt":"2022-01-13T23:25:31","slug":"public-radio-2022","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/public-radio-2022\/","title":{"rendered":"30 reasons why you should listen to public radio"},"content":{"rendered":"

*Editor\u2019s Note: The \u201cViews from NAU\u201d blog series highlights the thoughts of different people affiliated with NAU, including faculty members sharing opinions or research in their areas of expertise. The views expressed reflect the authors\u2019 own personal perspectives.<\/em><\/p>\n

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B\"\"<\/a>y<\/strong>\u00a0Gillian Ferris
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News director and managing editor, KNAU<\/strong><\/p>\n

Jan. 13 is Public Radio Day\u2014let\u2019s celebrate!<\/p>\n

2021 marked 50 years since NPR went on the air with its debut daily news show, All Things Considered. <\/em>\u00a0In the early years of public broadcasting, many of the first NPR member stations were formed on college and university campuses that wanted to experiment with a new kind of news medium meant to educate and entertain.<\/p>\n

KNAU signed onto the airwaves at Northern Arizona University in 1983 and has since become a prominent and familiar source of news for the greater northern Arizona region, Colorado Plateau. Many award-winning reporters, producers and editors have made their mark on KNAU over the last nearly 40 years, shining a light on environmental and tribal issues, arts and culture, and more recently, the coronavirus pandemic and the country\u2019s sociopolitical divide.<\/p>\n

KNAU listeners are passionate and devoted, and often call or send emails about the things they especially love or are moved by. We don\u2019t have room to list all of the things that are awesome about public radio, but these are just a few of the things we hear a lot:<\/p>\n

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  1. Topics you don\u2019t hear about anywhere else<\/li>\n
  2. New music and artists<\/li>\n
  3. International reach<\/li>\n
  4. Oasis in the desert of mainstream and social media<\/li>\n
  5. Terry Gross is a legend.<\/li>\n
  6. Builds community connections<\/li>\n
  7. KNAU\u2019s Earth Notes series<\/a><\/li>\n
  8. Doesn\u2019t involve screen time<\/li>\n
  9. Sunday Puzzle with Will Shortz<\/li>\n
  10. Truckers love to listen to NPR member stations.<\/li>\n
  11. Neutral news without sensationalism<\/li>\n
  12. Susan Stamberg\u2019s annual cranberry relish stories<\/a><\/li>\n
  13. Inclusive and intersectional<\/li>\n
  14. Multicultural and multilingual stories<\/li>\n
  15. Hearing KNAU reporters on the national network<\/li>\n
  16. Something friends and family share<\/li>\n
  17. The nuance of sound speaks to the human soul.<\/li>\n
  18. KNAU\u2019s Eats and Beats series<\/a><\/li>\n
  19. Driveway moments<\/li>\n
  20. Pledge Drive swag<\/li>\n
  21. Scott Thybony\u2019s Canyon Commentaries<\/a><\/li>\n
  22. More than 1,000 member stations in the U.S.<\/li>\n
  23. American Routes<\/em> is the best music history show on the planet.\"Dog<\/a><\/li>\n
  24. Thought-provoking programming<\/li>\n
  25. Cool bumper stickers<\/li>\n
  26. Preserves the legacy of public broadcasting<\/li>\n
  27. You can listen while you cook or change the oil in your car.<\/li>\n
  28. You always learn something.<\/li>\n
  29. Keeps dogs and cats company when you\u2019re not at home<\/li>\n
  30. Best programming in U.S. radio<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    Tune in to KNAU<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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    *Editor\u2019s Note: The \u201cViews from NAU\u201d blog series highlights the thoughts of different people affiliated with NAU, including faculty members sharing opinions or research in their areas of expertise. The views expressed reflect the authors\u2019 own personal perspectives. By\u00a0Gillian Ferris News director and managing editor, KNAU Jan. 13 is Public Radio Day\u2014let\u2019s celebrate! 2021 marked…<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":81,"featured_media":65080,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-65070","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-views-from-nau"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65070","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/81"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=65070"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65070\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/65080"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=65070"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=65070"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=65070"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}