Radio College

Radio Guide | Programs & Producers

(for a list of public radio producers, see AIR's directory of members' websites.)

Alternative Radio

  • public affairs program and a "forum for controversy and debate."

ACF NEWSOURCE / American Communications Foundation

  • "…assists the commercial broadcast news media in its coverage of subjects that are often under-reported because of staffing and budgetary restraints."

  • offers opportunities for reporters to do field work (i.e. producing and limited reporting) for The Osgood Files on CBS Radio.

American Routes

  • celebrating the melting pot that is American music & culture.

CounterSpin

produced in New York City by Fairness and Accuracy In Reporting.

  • a media watchdog program offering "a critical examination of the major stories every week, exposes what the mainstream media might have missed in their own coverage."

Democracy Now: The War & Peace Report

  • public/civic journalism programming.

Global Voices Radio


Great Lakes Radio Consortium

produced at Michigan Radio.

  • "...committed to revealing the relationship between the natural world and the everyday lives of people."

  • see submission guidelines at AirMedia.

Hearing Voices

  • "where journalism meets John Cage."

Here & Now

produced at WBUR / Boston.

  • a midday national news magazine.

  • see submission guidelines at AirMedia.

High Plains News

  • a news service for the Rocky Mountains and Northern Great Plains region.

  • see submission guidelines at AirMedia.

Homelands

  • "public interest documentary journalism."

The Infinite Mind

produced by Lichtenstein Creative Media.

  • "specializes in productions focusing on mental health, human rights and other social issues."

Justice Talking

  • weekly hour-long program that examines the role of the U.S. constitution in our lives.

  • "works with reporters to produce 6-minute sound-rich pieces that set-up debates between attorneys and advocates."

  • see submission guidelines at AirMedia.

Ken Nordine's Word Jazz … for linguistic and creative inspiration(!)


Latino USA

in partnership with KUT / Austin and the Center for Mexican-American Studies at the University of Texas at Austin.

Living On Earth

Marketplace

produced by American Public Media at the University of Southern California.

Media Rites

  • a non-profit organization dedicated to promoting cultural understanding through the arts, education and media projects.

National Native News

  • "five minute, weekday program that covers the social, economic and cultural issues that affect every community, and helps radio listeners understand the interconnectedness between Native people and their non-Native neighbors."

  • see submission guidelines at AirMedia.

National Radio Project

  • home of Making Contact, a weekly international magazine/documentary-style public affairs program "committed to investigative journalism and in-depth critical analysis which goes beyond the breaking news. Utilizing voices and perspectives rarely heard in media, focuses on the human realities of politics, the connections between local and global events, and creative possibilities for people to engage in hopeful democratic change." (see listing under Audio Tools, Techniques & Tutorials).

  • see submission guidelines here and at AirMedia.

Native America Calling

  • "The National Electronic Talking Circle," a live call-in program "about issues specific to Native communities."

New American Radio

  • formerly a national weekly program; now a digital on-line archive in partnership with Wesleyan University.

  • features "commissioned and distributed works" for (among other things) "associational documentary, language explorations... and a primer of radio art-making in America."

On The Media

produced at WNYC / New York.

  • weekly NPR media critique hosted by Brooke Gladstone and Bob Garfield.

  • see submission guidelines at AirMedia.

...Open Source

  • a conversational program series, developed by Christopher Lydon, the former host of WBUR's The Connection.

OutQ

produced at Sirius Satellite Radio in New York City.

  • topical news and information programming for a national gay, bisexual, lesbian and transgender community.

  • daily programming available online, Sirius Channel 106.

Oyate Ta Olowan: Songs of the People

  • radio documataries about Native Americans.

Pulse of the Planet

  • "two-minute sound portrait of Planet Earth, tracking the rhythms of nature, culture and science worldwide and blending interviews and extraordinary natural sound."

Radio Diaries

site of documentarian and Columbia j-school adjunct professor, Joe Richman.

  • produces oral histories where people "document their own lives."

Radio Nation

  • the on-air version of The Nation magazine.

She Got Game

a production of WSHU in Fairfield, CT.

  • formerly a weekly show,  now airs nationally as a series of occasional women's sports radio specials that "highlights all aspects of sports: the competition, the athlete, the industry and the culture." SGG "features stories, profiles and interviews with... athletes, offbeat adventurers,... tomorrow's champions and the legends and trailblazers who paved the way."

Sound Portraits

a production company of David Isay.

Soundprint

  • radio documentaries, presented by Barbara Bogaev.

Stories 1st
produced by MediaRites.

  • welcomes the personal narrative told in literary and audio art form.

  • funded in part by a grant from the National Endowment of the Arts.

Studio 360

produced at WNYC / New York.

  • a weekly national arts and culture program from PRI, submission guidelines are available by e-mail from a staff producer.

The World

a co-production of the BBC, PRI and WGBH / Boston

  • weekday afternoon news program featuring a more international perspective in comparison to NPR's All Things Considered.

This American Life

created by Ira Glass.

  • confessional reality radio with a sizable and devoted following.

  • promotes a comic book reference guide ($5; click on the links for a free preview) to how the show is produced, as well as (free) links on editing, how to download Pro Tools to your own computer, and various radio resources.

This Way Out

ThoughtCast

  • Think through ideas with "authors, academics and intellectuals" in an interactive audio program with online debate, hosted by Jenny Attiyeh. Her mission: to create "a bridge between the publications and pursuits of the intellectual world and a curious, informed, mainstream audience."

Undercurrents

in partnership with Koahnic Broadcasting.

  • music from around the world.

Weekend America

from APM / American Public Media.

WINGS/Women's International News Gathering Service