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Neil Harris Jr.
From: Radio Diaries
Series: The Unmarked Graveyard: Stories from Hart Island
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Around 2015, a young man who called himself Stephen showed up in Manhattan's Riverside Park. Locals noticed him sitting on the same park bench day ...

  • Added: Jan 25, 2024
  • Length: 20:54
Answering the Call, Part 2: Struggling to Staff the Nation's New Crisis Line
From: Tradeoffs
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In Part 2 of our special series on 988, we explore the scramble to staff the country’s new mental health crisis line and the workforce lessons 988 ...

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio


  • Added: Jun 02, 2022
  • Length: 26:45
  • Purchases: 1
Losing Touch: How Qanon is affecting families
From: Daniel Green
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Over the past four years, Qanon has grown by spreading misinformation through the internet. While many dismiss the fringe movement, some people fin...

  • Added: May 19, 2021
  • Length: 17:10
A Shortcut Through 2020
From: Peter Bochan
Series: Shortcuts
Caption: Ruth Bader Ginsburg
A final look at an impossible year, 12 months of incredible drama, played out over the world stage in an hour long retrospective

Bought by KMUN, WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., KBUT Crested Butte, Colo., Mississippi Public Broadcasting, KKRN and more


  • Added: Dec 23, 2020
  • Length: 59:09
  • Purchases: 13
CBC S 1 E 2: Detroit- A Day in District Five
From: WNIN
Series: COVID Between the Coasts
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After decades of economic inequality ravaged the population of mostly African-American residents, the outcome of the coronavirus outbreak was predi...

Bought by KFAI Minneapolis and KBUT Crested Butte, Colo.


  • Added: Nov 21, 2020
  • Length: 20:56
  • Purchases: 2
Centenarians in Lockdown
From: Radio Diaries
Series: Hunker Down Diaries
Caption: Joe Newman and Anita Sampson, Credit: ABC Action News
Joe Newman is 107 years old. He was 5 during the flu pandemic of 1918. Today, he lives in a senior apartment complex in Sarasota, Florida with his ...

  • Added: Apr 17, 2020
  • Length: 05:23
Ohio mother mourns son taken by Lake Erie current
From: Great Lakes Today
Series: DANGEROUS WATERS
Caption: Melissa Zirkle with a picture of Jermaine, Credit: Elizabeth Miller
Melissa Zirkle grew up near Lake Erie, but didn't learn about the dangerous currents in the Great Lakes. She lost her son to a powerful current in...

Bought by WVBI-LP, WRST-FM Oshkosh, WMUK, WCPN, WXXI Rochester and more


  • Added: Aug 12, 2016
  • Length: 03:13
  • Purchases: 7
Why We Root: The 2013 Red Sox After the Boston Marathon Bombing
From: Eric Mack
Series: Why We Root
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On this Why We Root, a story of a classic American sports town and the season that started with tragedy but ended with a championship. We’ll recall...

Bought by WHCP-LP Cambridge and KMXT


  • Added: Apr 12, 2016
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 2
Introduction to the 2015 Heisman Trophy Winner
From: New Jersey Radio Exchange Network
Series: North Jersey Radio Series
Caption: Derrick Henry
Derrick Henry of Alabama Football

  • Added: Dec 13, 2015
  • Length: 10:50
Teens and Illegal Guns: Attitudes and Uses
From: Y-Press
Series: Teens and Guns: Illegal Uses
Caption: Pendleton Juvenile Correctional Facility, Pendleton, IN, Credit: Andy Yang and Priya Mirmira, Y-Press
Priya Mirmira, age 15, spoke with 18-year-old inmates who were serving time for gun charges. She learned about their attitudes toward guns, how the...

  • Added: Mar 16, 2012
  • Length: 03:38
Teens and Illegal Guns: Access
From: Y-Press
Series: Teens and Guns: Illegal Uses
Caption: Pendleton Juvenile Correctional Facility, Pendleton, IN, Credit: Andy Yang and Priya Mirmira
In a 2009 survey by the CDC, nearly 1500 Indiana high school students said they had carried a gun for at least one day during the previous 30 days....

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio


  • Added: Mar 15, 2012
  • Length: 03:38
  • Purchases: 1
Teens and Illegal Guns: Overview
From: Y-Press
Series: Teens and Guns: Illegal Uses
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In the last decade in Indiana, about 130 murders were committed by teens, and 79 percent of those involved a firearm. After a Y-Presser lost her co...

Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio


  • Added: Mar 15, 2012
  • Length: 03:37
  • Purchases: 1
Washington Execution: The Mechanics of an Execution
From: KUOW
Series: State of Execution
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Prisoners sentenced to death in Washington State have a choice of lethal injection or hanging.

  • Added: Dec 16, 2008
  • Length: 06:58
Washington Execution: Capital Cases and the Law
From: KUOW
Series: State of Execution
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Death penalty cases are extremely complex and costly to pursue.

  • Added: Dec 16, 2008
  • Length: 06:41