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NPR is still expanding the range of what authority sounds like after 50 years

  • Written by Jason Loviglio, Chair and Associate Professor of Media and Communication Studies, University of Maryland, Baltimore County
Susan Stamberg interviewed President Jimmy Carter during a National Public Radio call-in program in 1979.AP Photo/Charles Tasnadi

From its start half a century ago, National Public Radio heralded a new approach to the sound of radio in the United States.

NPR “would speak with many voices and many dialects,” according to “Purposes,&...

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