American Public Media

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Formerly, much of American Public Media's programming content was distributed by Public Radio International, which itself was named "American Public Radio", or APR, until July 1, 1994. APR was formed by four stations—the Minnesota Public Radio network, WGBH in Boston, WNYC in New York, and KUSC in Los Angeles—to distribute A Prairie Home Companion. PRI owns and produces numerous programs today, but still also distributes diverse programming from many sources. In contrast, APM, which was founded in 2004, predominantly distributes content that it owns and produces itself; exceptions include The Story with Dick Gordon (which ended production in October 2013), the distribution to US stations of the BBC World Service, and the BBC Proms broadcasts from Royal Albert Hall in London.{{citation needed|reason=No source for this information was able to be found.|date=March 2016}}

The split happened as MPR and PRI began seeing each other more as potential competitors after MPR lost the partnership to WGBH to produce The World, and MPR purchased PRI-distributed Marketplace for its own distribution channels.{{cite web| url =http://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/minnesota-public-radio-acquires-marketplace-productions-72618767.html| title =Minnesota Public Radio Acquires Marketplace Productions| date = 14 April 2000| website = PR Newswire| access-date = 22 April 2016}}

APM Reports is the investigative journalism unit of APM,{{Cite web|url=https://www.americanpublicmedia.org/programs/|title=Programs|publisher=American Public Media |access-date=August 3, 2020}}{{Cite web|author=Chris Worthington|url=https://www.apmreports.org/story/2016/05/11/editor-principles|title=Who we are and what we do|work=APM Reports|publisher=American Public Media |date=May 11, 2016}} based in St. Paul, Minnesota.{{Cite web|author=Eileen Sullivan|date=February 19, 2019|title=New York Times Wins Two George Polk Awards|newspaper=New York Times|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2019/02/19/us/politics/george-polk-awards.html}} Established in November 2015, APM Reports' journalists are drawn from Minnesota Public Radio and the former American RadioWorks. It produces documentary as well as investigative journalism. In 2019, APM Reports journalists Madeleine Baran and Samara Freemark received a Polk Award for season 2 of In the Dark, their investigation into the case of Curtis Flowers, who was tried six times for a quadruple murder in Winona, Mississippi in 1996.{{Cite web|title=In a crowded field of Polk Award honorees, spotlight falls on podcasts|author=Orion Donovan-Smith|publisher=Investigative Reporting Workshop|date=February 22, 2019|url=https://investigativereportingworkshop.org/news/in-a-crowded-field-of-polk-award-honorees-spotlight-falls-on-podcasts/}} This was the first Polk Award given to a podcast.[http://www.insideradio.com/podcastnewsdaily/first-podcast-honored-with-a-polk-award/article_f8a14f58-3534-11e9-903d-7fd83168cf71.html First Podcast Honored With A Polk Award], Inside Radio (February 20, 2019). The In the Dark journalists also won two Peabody Awards, in 2016 and 2020, for the first and second seasons of In the Dark.[https://www.americanpublicmedia.org/apm-reports-in-the-dark-wins-second-peabody-award/ APM Reports' In the Dark Wins Second Peabody Award], American Public Media (June 10, 2020). In 2023, the APM Reports educational team, with journalist Emily Hanford, won a Edward R. Murrow Award (Radio Television Digital News Association) for Sold a Story: How Teaching Kids to Read Went So Wrong.

APM Research Lab is the research and data journalism unit of American Public Media.{{Cite web |title=APM: Investigative & Impact Units |url=https://www.americanpublicmedia.org/investigative-impact-units |access-date=23 March 2022 |website=American Public Media}} The Lab was established in 2017 under the leadership of American Public Media Group's CEO Jon McTaggart and EVP Dave Kansas with the hiring of its inaugural Managing Partner, Craig Helmstetter.{{Cite web |last=Grinapol |first=Corinne |date=28 April 2017 |title=Craig Helmstetter Is Named Managing Partner of APM's New Research Lab and Analyst Group |url=https://www.adweek.com/performance-marketing/craig-helmstetter-is-named-managing-partner-of-apms-new-research-lab-and-analyst-group/ |access-date=23 March 2022 |website=AdWeek}} The Lab was created to further strengthen APM's commitment to factual information as indicated by the tagline "bringing facts into focus."{{Cite web |title=Doubling down on credibility |url=https://www.apmresearchlab.org/blog/doubling-down-on-credibility |access-date=2022-03-23 |website=APM Research Lab |date=12 October 2017 |language=en-US}} The unit has conducted several research projects in collaboration with newsrooms within the American Public Media Group and beyond, including partnerships with Marketplace, Minnesota Public Radio News, and PBS/Frontline and the Texas Newsroom.{{Cite web |date=2019-12-12 |title=These are the states benefiting the most from the $28-billion farm bailout |url=https://www.marketplace.org/2019/12/12/these-are-the-states-benefiting-the-most-from-the-28-billion-farm-bailout/ |access-date=2022-03-23 |website=Marketplace |language=en-US}}{{Cite web |title=Minnesota's Diverse Communities Survey |url=https://www.mprnews.org/minnesota-diverse-communities-survey |access-date=2022-03-23 |website=MPR News |date=11 October 2021 |language=en}}{{Cite web |title=Topic: Rural Health Care: The Other Texas Drought {{!}} FRONTLINE {{!}} PBS {{!}} Official Site |url=https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/frontline/topic/rural%20Health%20Care:%20The%20Other%20Texas%20Drought |access-date=2022-03-23 |website=FRONTLINE |language=en-US}}

In 2020 the Lab began publishing a project called [https://www.apmresearchlab.org/covid/deaths-by-race Color of Coronavirus] that tracks deaths due to COVID-19 by race and ethnicity in each U.S. state as well as the nation as a whole.{{Cite web |title=Color of Coronavirus: COVID-19 deaths analyzed by race and ethnicity |url=https://www.apmresearchlab.org/covid/deaths-by-race |access-date=2022-03-23 |website=APM Research Lab |language=en-US}} This project has been cited hundreds of times, including by The Guardian, The Atlantic, Newsweek, The Washington Post, The New York Times, and the Journal of the American Medical Association.{{Cite web |date=2021-02-04 |title=Exclusive: indigenous Americans dying from Covid at twice the rate of white Americans |url=http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021/feb/04/native-americans-coronavirus-covid-death-rate |access-date=2022-03-23 |website=the Guardian |language=en}}{{Cite web |last=Pinsker |first=Joe |date=2021-01-05 |title=4 Numbers That Make the Pandemic's Massive Death Toll Sink In |url=https://www.theatlantic.com/family/archive/2021/01/us-covid-19-death-toll/617544/ |access-date=2022-03-23 |website=The Atlantic |language=en}}{{Cite news |last=Goyette |first=Jared |title=On the way to the store, a mask giveaway to protect African Americans from coronavirus |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/on-the-way-to-the-store-a-mask-giveaway-to-protect-african-americans-from-coronavirus/2020/05/15/dce4fc8a-970b-11ea-82b4-c8db161ff6e5_story.html |access-date=23 March 2022 |newspaper=The Washington Post}}{{Cite news |last=Stolberg |first=Sheryl Gay |date=2020-06-07 |title='Pandemic Within a Pandemic': Coronavirus and Police Brutality Roil Black Communities |language=en-US |work=The New York Times |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/07/us/politics/blacks-coronavirus-police-brutality.html |access-date=2022-03-23 |issn=0362-4331}}{{Cite journal |last1=Dowling |first1=Marisa K. |last2=Kelly |first2=Robin L. |date=2020-07-21 |title=Policy Solutions for Reversing the Color-blind Public Health Response to COVID-19 in the US |journal=JAMA |volume=324 |issue=3 |pages=229–230 |doi=10.1001/jama.2020.10531 |pmid=32496524 |s2cid=219315923 |issn=0098-7484|doi-access=free }}

Until July 2015, APM operated Classical South Florida (WMLV-FM 89.7), which was sold to Educational Media Foundation, a California-based religious broadcasting company that airs contemporary Christian music; it now brands itself as a K-Love station.{{cite news |author=John Strasswimmer |title=Sale of WPBI-FM to leave NPR, classical music gap |url=http://m.palmbeachdailynews.com/news/news/opinion/losing-our-cultural-enrichment/nm2yf/ |newspaper=Palm Beach Daily News |date=July 18, 2015 |access-date=2015-08-24 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150905205930/http://m.palmbeachdailynews.com/news/news/opinion/losing-our-cultural-enrichment/nm2yf/ |archive-date=September 5, 2015 |url-status=dead }}{{cite news |author=Ben Mook |title=American Public Media Group aims to sell Fla. classical network to religious broadcaster |url=http://current.org/2015/07/american-public-media-group-aims-to-sell-fla-classical-network-to-religious-broadcaster/#|newspaper=Current|date=July 8, 2015 |access-date=2015-08-24}}

APM also distributes:

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• BBC World Service
• Classical 24
• Composers Datebook
• The Daily
• Marketplace and companion programs
• The Dinner Party Download
• On Point
• Performance Today
• Pipedreams
• The Splendid Table
• SymphonyCast

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Several specials are also distributed by APM on a less frequent basis, including a number of Christmas programs, Giving Thanks at Thanksgiving, and the BBC Proms.

• Madeleine Baran, host and lead reporter of In The Dark
• Lynne Rossetto Kasper, former host of The Splendid Table
• Francis Lam, host of The Splendid Table
• Nora McInerny, host of Terrible, Thanks for Asking
• John Moe, former host of Hilarious World of Depression
• Kai Ryssdal, host of Marketplace and co-host of Make Me Smart
• Molly Wood, former Marketplace tech correspondent and former co-host of Make Me Smart with Kai and Molly
• Dave Kansas, former President of American Public Media

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