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National Public Radio
National Public Radio (NPR) is an American noncommercial radio network that produces and distributes news and cultural programming through its member (affiliate) stations around the country. Its flagship newsmagazine programs All Things Considered and Morning Edition reach an estimated audience of 20 million listeners a week who are characterized as highly educated and socially conscious. With close to 40 news bureaus in the United States and overseas, NPR has an extensive news-gathering operation that provides in-depth news and analysis that have helped establish it as a dominant player in the field of journalism. NPR originated out of a view of radio as having an educational and cultural purpose. Following the early 1967 recommendations of the Carnegie Commission, which was appointed by President Lyndon Johnson (1963–69) to examine the future of educational broadcasting, Congress passed the Public Broadcasting Act in October 1967 that created the Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB). The ...