American Public Media
St. Paul, MN
$250,000
Support for continuing coverage of the current financial crisis by the Marketplace programs (the country’s largest outlet for business/economics journalism). The editorial goal is to help Americans understand the crisis and improve their individual financial decision making.
Our Non-Licensee Partner(s)
American Public Media (APM), St. Paul, Minnesota—A not-for-profit organization, APM is the nation’s largest owner and operator of public radio stations and a premier producer and distributor of public radio programming. It is also the largest producer and distributor of classical music programming in the U.S. Nearly 800 stations reaching 16 million listeners carry its programs each week. APM is the parent organization for Minnesota Public Radio, Southern California Public Radio, and Classical South Florida, operating 43 public radio stations and 32 translators in Minnesota, Iowa, Wisconsin, Michigan, South Dakota, North Dakota, Idaho, California, and Florida. Marketplace, based in Los Angeles, California, is a division of APM. It produces Marketplace, Marketplace Morning Report, and Marketplace Money, which are heard by an audience of more than 9 million unique listeners in the course of a week, on 486 public radio stations nationwide.