American Public Media (APM) is an American company that produces and distributes

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programs in the United States, the second largest company of its type after NPR. Its non-profit parent, American Public Media Group, also owns and operates radio stations in

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and

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. Its station brands include Minnesota Public Radio and Southern California Public Radio. Based in St. Paul,

, APM is best known for distribution of the national financial news program ''

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''.About us
American Public Media. Retrieved on 2008-05-20.

Historical ties to Public Radio International

Formerly, much of American Public Media's programming content was distributed by

Public Radio International Public Radio International (PRI) was an American public radio organization. Headquartered in Minneapolis, Minnesota, PRI provided programming to over 850 public radio stations in the United States. PRI was one of the main providers of programm ...

, which itself was named "American Public Radio", or APR, until July 1, 1994. APR was formed by four stations—the Minnesota Public Radio network,

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in Boston,

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in New York, and KUSC in Los Angeles—to distribute ''

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''. 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 ''The Story with Dick Gordon'' was a weekday interview program hosted by Dick Gordon, former host of WBUR's '' The Connection'' and, before that, fill-in host for the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation's national radio program '' This Morning''. ...

'' (which ended production in October 2013), the distribution to US stations of the

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, and the BBC Proms broadcasts from

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. The split happened as MPR and PRI began seeing each other more as potential competitors after MPR lost the partnership to

to produce ''

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'', and MPR purchased PRI-distributed ''Marketplace'' for its own distribution channels.

APM Reports

APM Reports is the

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unit of APM, based in St. Paul, Minnesota. 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. This was the first Polk Award given to a

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. The ''In the Dark'' journalists also won two

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s, in 2016 and 2020, for the first and second seasons of ''In the Dark''.

APM Research Lab

APM Research Lab is the research and

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unit of 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 David Kansas (born March 28, 1967) was the president of American Public Media until a restructuring in March 2022. He had also served as chief operating officer of American Public Media Group, a position he assumed in 2011. He was formerly an edito ...

with the hiring of its inaugural Managing Partner, Craig Helmstetter. The Lab was created to further strengthen APM's commitment to factual information as indicated by the tagline "bringing facts into focus." The unit has conducted several research projects in collaboration with newsrooms within the American Public Media Group and beyond, including partnerships with

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, and PBS/Frontline and the Texas Newsroom. In 2020 the Lab began publishing a project calle
Color of Coronavirus
that tracks deaths due to

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by race and ethnicity in each U.S. state as well as the nation as a whole. This project has been cited hundreds of times, including by

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The Atlantic ''The Atlantic'' is an American magazine and multi-platform publisher. It features articles in the fields of politics, foreign affairs, business and the economy, culture and the arts, technology, and science. It was founded in 1857 in Boston, ...

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, and the

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Classical South Florida

Until July 2015, APM operated Classical South Florida (WMLV-FM 89.7), which was sold to

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, a California-based religious broadcasting company that airs contemporary Christian music; it now brands itself as a K-Love station.

Programs distributed

APM also distributes: * ''

'' * '' Classical 24'' * ''Composers Datebook'' * '' The Daily'' * ''

'' * ''Marketplace Morning Report'' * ''Marketplace Tech'' * ''Marketplace Minute'' * ''The Dinner Party Download'' * ''

On Point ''On Point'' is a radio show produced by WBUR-FM in Boston and syndicated by American Public Media (APM). The show addresses a wide range of issues from news, politics, arts and culture, health, technology, environmental, and business topics, t ...

'' * ''

Performance Today ''Performance Today'' is a Peabody Award-winning classical music radio program, first aired in 1987 and hosted since 2000 by Fred Child. It is the most listened-to daily classical music radio program in the United States, with 1.2 million liste ...

'' * ''

Pipedreams ''Pipedreams'' is a radio music program produced and distributed by American Public Media (APM) based in Saint Paul, Minnesota, created and hosted since its inception by J. Michael Barone. History Each one or two-hour show features organ music ...

'' * '' The Splendid Table'' * ''SymphonyCast'' Several specials are also distributed by APM on a less frequent basis, including a number of

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programs, Giving Thanks at

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, and the '' BBC Proms''.

People

* Madeleine Baran, host and lead reporter of ''In The Dark'' *

Lynne Rossetto Kasper Lynne Rossetto Kasper is an American food writer and radio journalist. She was the founding host of the American Public Media program ''The Splendid Table'', whose targeted audience is "people who love to eat." The weekly program features a series ...

, former host of ''The Splendid Table'' *

Francis Lam Francis Lam is an American food journalist, cookbook editor, and since 2017 the host of American Public Media's ''The Splendid Table''. Early life and education Lam was born to Chinese immigrant parents living in New Jersey and working in Manha ...

, host of ''The Splendid Table'' *

Nora McInerny Nora McInerny is an American author. She writes about dealing with grief and loss, drawing on her personal experience of miscarrying a child and losing both her father and husband to cancer within several weeks in 2014. Early life and education No ...

, host of ''Terrible, Thanks for Asking'' *

John Moe John Moe (born July 10, 1968) is an American writer and radio personality. Early life Moe grew up in Federal Way, Washington and graduated from Whitman College. Career Moe was originally hired at KUOW in 2001 as a staff writer for ''Rewind'', ...

, former host of ''Hilarious World of Depression'' *

Kai Ryssdal Kai Ryssdal (; born October 8, 1963) is an American radio journalist and the host of ''Marketplace'', a business program that airs weekdays on U.S. public radio stations. He also co-hosts the spinoff podcast ''Make Me Smart'' with Kimberly Adams. ...

, host of ''

'' and co-host of ''Make Me Smart with Kai and Molly'' *

Molly Wood Molly Kristin Wood (born May 23, 1975) is an American venture capitalist, podcast host, and journalist. Early life and education Molly Wood was born in Helena, Montana on May 23, 1975. She graduated in May 1997 with a BA in journalism with a mi ...

, ''Marketplace'' tech correspondent and co-host of ''Make Me Smart with Kai and Molly'' *

, former President of American Public Media

References

External links

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''Current'', the newspaper about public TV and radio in the United States
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