WNYC

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WNYC 93.9 FM and AM 820 are America's most listened-to public radio stations, reaching over one million listeners each week. WNYC FM 93.9 broadcasts a broad range of daily news, talk, cultural and classical music programming, while WNYC AM 820 maintains a stronger focus on breaking news and international/ global news reporting. WNYC, New York Public Radio maintains a busy centralized newsroom and its award-winning reporters contribute regularly to local news broadcasts and to the nationally aired news programs Morning Edition, All Things Considered and Marketplace. WNYC produces signature daily interview programs, hosted by Brian Lehrer, Leonard Lopate and John Schaefer as well as the nationally broadcast Radiolab, On the Media, Studio 360, Selected Shorts and Freakonomics Radio. 

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10 Pieces

A look at the convention, New York and the GOP from WNYC's award-winning news staff

  • From: WNYC
  • Updated: Aug 26, 2004
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10 Pieces

A series of reports from a high school in Brooklyn where educators and counselors work with students at risk of dropping out. We hear directly from students, teachers and others on the front line of dropout prevention.

  • From: WNYC
  • Updated: Mar 11, 2014
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30 Pieces

The Fishko Files, produced by WNYC's Sara Fishko, are personal, essay-like radio pieces on music, art, culture and media.

  • From: WNYC
  • Updated: Sep 20, 2012

Latest Pieces

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Erin Reeg's parents were paramedics when they met and fell in love. They went on to become a firefighter and a nurse who instilled in their two dau...

  • Added: Sep 02, 2011
  • Length: 09:10
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Norhan Basuni divides her life into the time before September 11th, and the time after. For her, it is the day that she became a symbol of Islam, a...

  • Added: Sep 02, 2011
  • Length: 09:34
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After the death of Osama bin Laden, young people took to the streets to celebrate and there was discussion in the media about a "9/11 Generation," ...

  • Added: Sep 02, 2011
  • Length: 07:17
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Joey Rizzolo was six years old when he watched the events of September 11, 2001 on TV, while folding laundry with his grandma in his living room.

  • Added: Sep 02, 2011
  • Length: 07:02
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Eric Leinung was 11-years-old when his older brother, Paul, went to work on the 100th floor of the World Trade Center on September 11, 2001. Paul ...

  • Added: Sep 01, 2011
  • Length: 10:04
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Jillian Suarez's story is one she says she doesn't want to tell with tears. Jillian's father, a New York City police officer, didn't come home on ...

Bought by KUNM and YouthCast


  • Added: Sep 01, 2011
  • Length: 05:27
  • Purchases: 2
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It seems likely that the 9/11 site and memorial will be among the most-if not THE most-visited sites in the US, with millions expected to pay their...

Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio, WDSE, WAMC Northeast Public Radio, and KUFM - Montana Public Radio


  • Added: Aug 31, 2011
  • Length: 06:58
  • Purchases: 4
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Ten years after the terrorist attacks of September 11th, as part of WNYC's "Decade: 9/11" coverage, this special explores people's most visceral a...

Bought by KICI Iowa City, WXAV 88.3FM Chicago, KUAF Public Radio, WRGY, KVMR and more


  • Added: Aug 23, 2011
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 51
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The names of many of Reverend Martin Luther King Junior’s associates are well known: Harry Belafonte, Jesse Jackson, Andrew Young. But one of his m...

Bought by RadioFreePalmer, RadioStPete Florida, KLCC, Prairie Public, KRCB 104.9 and more


  • Added: Feb 04, 2011
  • Length: 07:38
  • Purchases: 28
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Funny WNYC pledge spot about guilt trips

Bought by KMUN, Delmarva Public Media, WHQR, WQCS, Delmarva Public Media and more


  • Added: Jun 30, 2009
  • Length: 01:03
  • Purchases: 7