PRX - Pieces for Topic: News

Can't find it? Try Advanced Search
View by:

12540 results


Caption: Open Books program director Anna Piepmeyer and second grader Jayla Mercado. , Credit: Niala Boodhoo
Some nonprofits in the region that rely on government funding are in trouble. As a result, many are now looking at how they can get other sources o...

  • Added: Jun 24, 2011
  • Length: 03:14
Piece image
News and features on the conflicts in Libya, Iraq, and Afghanistan.

  • Added: Jun 24, 2011
  • Length: 02:21
Caption: Amelia Cummings celebrates her new room ... and four months clean. , Credit: Kate Davidson
Non-profits are a vibrant part of the regional economy. They employ many people and the need for their services has grown. But charities that contr...

  • Added: Jun 24, 2011
  • Length: 03:56
Piece image
News and features on the wars in Libya, Iraq and Afghanistan

  • Added: Jun 24, 2011
  • Length: 02:42
Piece image
Computer Talk Radio weekly broadcast for the week starting June 25, 2011. This weeks program includes an interview with McAfee regarding the state ...

  • Added: Jun 23, 2011
  • Length: 54:00
Caption: PRX default Piece image
Violence against women is commonplace in Afghanistan. It takes all forms: domestic abuse, forced marriage, rape, even honor killings. This week, w...

Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio and KKRN


  • Added: Jun 23, 2011
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 2
Caption: High magnification micrograph of a liver with cirrhosis. Cirrhosis is a condition caused by hepatitis C., Credit: (via Wikimedia Commons)
In May, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration has approved two new drugs to treat hepatitis C, a virus that can cause liver damage and cancer. The...

Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio


  • Added: Jun 23, 2011
  • Length: 04:04
  • Purchases: 1
Piece image
David Wessel, economics editor of the Wall Street Journal, joins us today.

  • Added: Jun 23, 2011
  • Length: 25:17
Caption: PRX default Piece image
The gargantuan Three Gorges Dam over the Yangtze River in China is the largest hydroelectric project in the world and is a poster child for China's...

  • Added: Jun 22, 2011
  • Length: 02:00
Piece image
There is an effort underway in Bedford-Stuyvesant, or Bed Stuy, to protect the old architecture by turning parts of the neighborhood into historic ...

Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio


  • Added: Jun 22, 2011
  • Length: 05:20
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: PRX default Piece image
UNICEF correspondent Anja Baron speaks with Chief of UNICEF’s Kadugli Field Office, Soledad Herrero, about the situation in the Sudanese region 10 ...

  • Added: Jun 20, 2011
  • Length: 04:13
Caption: Who is it- really?, Credit: Susan Cook
Thank Former Congressman Weiner for reminding us of what civilization loses when we pretend to be someone that we are not- online or in life.

  • Added: Jun 20, 2011
  • Length: 01:36
Caption: 1st Battalion, 8th Marines in Afghanistan's Helmand province, Credit: Balazs Gardi
News and features on the conflicts in Libya, Iraq, and Afghanistan.

  • Added: Jun 20, 2011
  • Length: 10:42
Caption: Training the next generation of care providers becomes increasingly important as the population ages. , Credit: Kate Davidson
Nursing is a hot career. The federal government says it will create more new jobs than any other profession in the coming years … almost 600,000 jo...

  • Added: Jun 17, 2011
  • Length: 03:36
Piece image
Computer Talk Radio weekly broadcast for the week starting June 18, 2011. This weeks program covers updates from E3, including the controversy behi...

  • Added: Jun 16, 2011
  • Length: 54:00
Caption: Rincon Park and Cupid's Span in the Embarcadero. , Credit: Dewet. Used under GNU Free Documentation License.
How did you get to work this morning? Did you take a freeway into a city? What if it weren’t there? It’s a distinct possibility. Half a century aft...

  • Added: Jun 16, 2011
  • Length: 04:04
Caption: Little Village business owner Jesus Davila in front of one of his four businesses, Davila's Restaurant, in Chicago..
Cities across the Midwest are full of immigrant stories. Previous generations filled the factories, building cars, furniture and steel. Now that th...

Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio


  • Added: Jun 16, 2011
  • Length: 04:01
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: PRX default Piece image
(To air the week of June 18,2011) According the U.N. World Food Program there are now more than a billion people in the world who are in urgent n...

Bought by WEZU


  • Added: Jun 14, 2011
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 1
Piece image
News and features on the wars in Libya, Iraq, Afghanistan and more.

  • Added: Jun 10, 2011
  • Length: 29:00
Piece image
Computer Talk Radio weekly broadcast for the week starting June 11, 2011. This weeks program covers E3 (the Electronic Entertainment Expo) with Ben...

  • Added: Jun 10, 2011
  • Length: 54:00
Caption: Antelope trying to move through deep snow , Credit: David Grubbs, Billings Gazette
Biologists estimate thousands of pronghorn antelope died in Montana over the long, harsh winter...thousands more are stranded at the Fort Peck Rese...

  • Added: Jun 10, 2011
  • Length: 04:11
Piece image
(for air the week of June 18, 2011) According the U.N. World Food Program there are now more than a billion people in the world who are in urgent n...

Bought by WBEZ and WDSE


  • Added: Jun 09, 2011
  • Length: 01:50:25
  • Purchases: 2
Caption: PRX default Piece image
(To air the week of June 11, 2011). An orphanage in Afghanistan for descendants of Genghis Khan… …teenage refugees sing peace but get death threats...

Bought by 88.5 JAZZ FM Erie's Jazz Station


  • Added: Jun 09, 2011
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 1
Piece image
(For air the week of June 11, 2011) Stop at a red light in Mexico and chances are young children will approach your car selling food, trinkets, or ...

Bought by WDSE and WRST-FM Oshkosh


  • Added: Jun 09, 2011
  • Length: 01:50:25
  • Purchases: 2
Caption: PRX default Piece image
This program explores the infusion of "infotainment" values into the network evening newscasts..and is written, produced and hosted by an award win...

  • Added: Jun 08, 2011
  • Length: 59:55