New Book About NPR

[TheBigA]

It's called "On Air: The Triumph & Tumult of NPR" written by Steve Oney.

NPR Book Unfurls Character-Rich History Of Public Radio, But Doesn’t Spare The “Risk-Averse” Organization

Steve Oney's new book, "On Air: The Triumph and Tumult of NPR," stops well short of the Donald Trump Era but offers a character-rich media story.

deadline.com

On Air: The Triumph and Tumult of NPR|Audiobook

An epic, decade-long reported history of National Public Radio that reveals the unlikely story of one of America's most celebrated but least understood media empires.Founded in 1970, NPR is America's most powerful broadcast news network. Despite being overshadowed by the larger and...

www.barnesandnoble.com

https://www.amazon.com/Air-Triumph-Tumult-NPR/dp/1451656092

 

[Weiserguy]

I realize that second attachment was prepared by Barnes & Noble, not the author or publisher, but anyone attributing This American Life to NPR didn't do their homework. TAL was never an NPR show, despite Ira Glass getting his start at NPR. Passing on the program was an embarrassing goof on NPR's part, and mentioning it as if it was an NPR production is a goof on B&R's part. (Deadline's review gets that point right, though even there they were not as clear as they could have been that Glass had to leave NPR to start TAL because they passed on the proposal.)