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Inside Big Health Insurers' Side Hustle
From: Tradeoffs
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America’s largest health insurance companies moonlight as obscure middlemen, managing billions in health care spending for many of the country’s bi...

  • Added: Mar 31, 2022
  • Length: 26:58
Storelli Sports: Protecting Soccer Players from Career Altering Injuries
From: Syracuse University Broadcast Journalism - 2
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This is a story about a startup company called Storelli Sports. They are a small company started in Brooklyn, New York that is engineering a new ty...

  • Added: Dec 16, 2015
  • Length: 03:51
Teach For America Under Fire
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
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While many schools across the country are facing budget cuts and teacher layoffs, students at highly reputable universities are signing up in drove...

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio and WXDU


  • Added: Feb 17, 2014
  • Length: 11:18
  • Purchases: 2
TOMS Shoes - A Closer Look
From: Tiny Spark
Series: Tiny Spark
Caption: TOMS Founder, Blake Mycoskie.
TOMS shoes promises that if you buy a pair of its canvas slip-ons, they'll give a pair to a child in need. The company's "Buy One, Give One" busine...

Bought by KUOW, HowSound, and PRX Remix


  • Added: Mar 15, 2012
  • Length: 19:11
  • Purchases: 3
Madoff Whistle-Blower: ‘No One Would Listen’
From: Curt Nickisch
Caption: Harry Markopolos has written a book about his futile decade-long effort to expose Bernie Madoff and the world's largest Ponzi scheme.
Harry Markopolos tried for nearly ten years to expose Bernard Madoff and the world's largest Ponzi scheme, but it didn't do any good. Why didn’t a...

Bought by KPIK-LP, Remix Radio, KUT, KUOW, and EconomyBeat Podcast


  • Added: Feb 26, 2010
  • Length: 13:13
  • Purchases: 5
Insurance Scams in Massachusetts
From: Karen Brown
Caption: Gary Cloutier, small business owner, uninsured, Credit: Karen Brown
An unfortunate byproduct of the health insurance mandate in Massachusetts -- the marketing of health plans that don't add up.

Bought by KXOT Public Radio and WAMC Northeast Public Radio


  • Added: Mar 09, 2009
  • Length: 03:31
  • Purchases: 2
Glut of Ethanol By-products Coming
From: The Environment Report
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More corn ethanol means more by-products such as corn mash.

Bought by KLCC and WVTF


  • Added: Jul 06, 2006
  • Length: 04:11
  • Purchases: 2
Citizens Demand Gas Drilling Accountability
From: KRCC-FM
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In the midst of a natural gas drilling boom, Colorado citizens say state regulators aren't payng attention to enviromental concerns.

Bought by KOTO


  • Added: Mar 08, 2006
  • Length: 05:50
  • Purchases: 1
Is the Price Right?
From: KUOW
Series: Food for Thought: Farmed Salmon and the Future
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Looking at the cost of purchasing farmed salmon versus wild salmon.

Bought by KTNA


  • Added: Mar 06, 2006
  • Length: 07:46
  • Purchases: 1
Emerald Wilderness; Panama's Darien Gap
From: Lorne Matalon
Caption: PRX default Piece image
Panama Fears Colombian Designs on the The Pan-American Highway

  • Added: Oct 21, 2005
  • Length: 05:53
Oakland's Port - Community Friend or Foe?
From: Hana Baba
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A long feature on where millions of Oakland Port revenues go and why the ailing City of Oakland doesn't receive a penny of it.

  • Added: Jun 14, 2005
  • Length: 11:04
Fresh Direct to Honduras
From: KCUR
Caption: PRX default Piece image
An informal delivery service from New York City to Honduras using old yellow school buses.

Bought by WBEZ, KZSC, and KFAI Minneapolis


  • Added: Jun 23, 2004
  • Length: 09:41
  • Purchases: 3