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

Caption: English teacher Erin Bauer helping students prepare for an upcoming state test, Credit: Beth Fertig/WNYC
A high school for students who have dropped out or fallen behind finds that many of their kids are struggling with harder diploma requirements set ...

Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio


  • Added: Feb 21, 2014
  • Length: 04:58
  • Purchases: 1
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To enroll at West Brooklyn Community High School, students must buy in to a certain level of support and counseling. In exchange, the school promis...

  • Added: Jan 06, 2014
  • Length: 04:48
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Educators at one Brooklyn high school focus on getting their at-risk students across the threshold of the building. Sounds simple, right? Think again.

Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio, WABE, and WNIJ


  • Added: Jan 02, 2014
  • Length: 07:08
  • Purchases: 3
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Alec talks with Jerry Seinfeld about his success in comedy -- and how best to live life.

Bought by Troy Public Radio, KAZU Seaside, Calif., KQED, XRAY.fm, WVPE and more


  • Added: Oct 30, 2013
  • Length: 58:30
  • Purchases: 26
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Early on Oct. 29, 2012, tropical storm Sandy, churning through Atlantic Ocean waters in an easterly direction along America's Eastern Seaboard, hi...

Bought by KHNS, KLCC, and KUNC & The Colorado Sound


  • Added: Oct 29, 2013
  • Length: 57:00
  • Purchases: 3
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A fundraising edition of Alec's conversation with Rosie O'Donnell.

Bought by WDET Detroit Public Radio, WVPE, KUT, and KWGS


  • Added: Oct 04, 2013
  • Length: 43:12
  • Purchases: 4
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Alec sits down with two artists, filmmaker Judd Apatow and painter Eric Fischl, who use their families - and family life in general -- for inspirat...

Bought by WLIW, KUNV, WUNC, Michigan Radio, Capital Public Radio and more


  • Added: Sep 26, 2013
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 28
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Alec sits down with film directors Chris Columbus and Stephen Daldry.

Bought by WLIW, WUNC, KUNV, New Hampshire Public Radio, WGUC/ WVXU and more


  • Added: Sep 26, 2013
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 26
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Alec talks with pediatric endocrinologist Robert Lustig and criminologist Martin Horn to talk with two of society's most serious challenges: obesit...

Bought by WLIW, KUNV, WUNC, Capital Public Radio, New Hampshire Public Radio and more


  • Added: Sep 15, 2013
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 26
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Alec talks with NFL quarterback Andrew Luck and former Mets pitcher Dwight Gooden.

Bought by WLIW, KUNV, WUNC, WRIR, New Hampshire Public Radio and more


  • Added: Sep 15, 2013
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 28