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Pulitzer100: Embers of War (hour)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Hour Long Episodes
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- Pulitzer Award-winning historian Fred Logevall on the Vietnam War - Interviewing WWII veterans before it's too late - The lesser-known history of...

Bought by WCNY, 91.7 WHUS Storrs, KWMR, KWSO, WAMC Northeast Public Radio and more


  • Added: Nov 03, 2016
  • Length: 54:02
  • Purchases: 9
Pulitzer100: Embers of War (half)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Half Hour Long Episodes
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Reading about the past sometimes gives us the impression that the Vietnam War was inevitable. But Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Fredrik Logevall...

Bought by WJCT, WLPR , WUGA (part of GPB), WFHB, KRDP and more


  • Added: Nov 03, 2016
  • Length: 28:59
  • Purchases: 10
The Great Divide (hour)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Hour Long Episodes
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-Are betting markets are a more accurate predictor than election polls? -The influence of Millennials on the upcoming election. -The vast majorit...

Bought by WCNY, 91.7 WHUS Storrs, WRST-FM Oshkosh, WAMC Northeast Public Radio, KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash. and more


  • Added: Oct 28, 2016
  • Length: 53:58
  • Purchases: 6
The Great Divide (half)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Half Hour Long Episodes
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-Are betting markets are a more accurate predictor than election polls? -The influence of Millennials on the upcoming election. -The vast majority ...

Bought by WJCT, WUGA (part of GPB), WXDU, WLIW, KKRN and more


  • Added: Oct 28, 2016
  • Length: 29:01
  • Purchases: 8
THE LOVERS AND THE DESPOT -- Ross Adam Interview
From: Andrea Chase
Series: Behind the Scenes
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Ross Adam talks about film as propaganda, the astonishing reach of Netflix, and what happens when you get what you wish for

  • Added: Sep 29, 2016
  • Length: 13:46
Pulitzer 100: The Wondrous Junot Diaz (half)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Half Hour Long Episodes
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Pulitzer Prize winning author Junot Diaz talks about love, loss, and his New Jersey childhood.

Bought by WJCT, WJCU, KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., WUGA (part of GPB), WLIW and more


  • Added: Sep 09, 2016
  • Length: 28:59
  • Purchases: 7
Mapping the KKK (hour)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Hour Long Episodes
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-An animated, online map shows for the first time just how the Ku Klux Klan spread rapidly to all 50 states between 1915 and 1940. -Tracing the “e...

Bought by WCNY, WRST-FM Oshkosh, KEDT, KRDP, WMUU-LP and more


  • Added: Aug 19, 2016
  • Length: 53:58
  • Purchases: 8
Mapping the KKK (half)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Half Hour Long Episodes
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-An animated, online map shows for the first time just how the Ku Klux Klan spread rapidly to all 50 states between 1915 and 1940. -Tracing the “e...

Bought by WJCT, WRFA-LP, WFHB, WJCU, KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash. and more


  • Added: Aug 19, 2016
  • Length: 28:59
  • Purchases: 9
ZERO DAYS -- Alex Gibney, Eric Chien & Liam O'Murchu Interview
From: Andrea Chase
Series: Behind the Scenes
Caption: Eric Chien, Alex Gibney, Liam O'Murchu ,San Francisco, CA 5/11/16, Credit: Andrea Chase
Alex Gibney , Eric Chien, and Liam O'Murchu talk resisting paranoia, code as character, and the psychology of secrets.

  • Added: Jul 06, 2016
  • Length: 23:57
Valiant Ambition
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: Nathaniel Philbrick
It’s been more than 240 years since the war of America’s independence began. Yet, the name Benedict Arnold still evokes any number of negative resp...

Bought by KVSC and KCBX


  • Added: Jun 27, 2016
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 2
Nation of Nations (half)
From: With Good Reason
Series: Independence Day
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-NPR correspondent Tom Gjelten on his book "Nation of Nations" concerning immigration to the U.S. over the last fifty years. -Cuban born author Gus...

Bought by WFHB, KMUD, and KRZA


  • Added: May 26, 2016
  • Length: 28:58
  • Purchases: 3
Pulitzer 100: Stories in Science (hour)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Hour Long Episodes
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-Pulitzer Prize winning author Dan Fagin on his book "Tom's River: A Story of Science and Salvation" that tells the story of a how small town fough...

Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio


  • Added: Apr 19, 2016
  • Length: 53:56
  • Purchases: 1
Pulitzer 100: If You Like the Truth (hour)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Hour Long Episodes
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-Pulitzer Prize winner journalist and historian Rick Atkinson on his work and career. -New York street photographer left behind more than 300,000 i...

Bought by WCNY, WRST-FM Oshkosh, WMUU-LP, WXDU, KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash. and more


  • Added: Mar 11, 2016
  • Length: 53:54
  • Purchases: 8
Harness the Sun
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: Philip Warburg
American is standing on the brink of an extraordinary revolution: an energy revolution.

Bought by KCBX


  • Added: Dec 29, 2015
  • Length: 28:59
  • Purchases: 1
Lou Freshwater - Radioactive waste in St. Louis??
From: Donna Descoteaux
Series: Living Well Show
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Investigative journalist Lou Freshwater writes: "In the middle of the United States there is a landfill contaminated by nuclear waste which was lef...

  • Added: Dec 09, 2015
  • Length: 28:43
Tri-color Profile
From: KALW
Series: Sandip Roy's Dispatches from Kolkata
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I will not overlay my Facebook profile picture with the French tricolor.

  • Added: Nov 16, 2015
  • Length: 06:00
The Human Problem Facing Global Cities
From: Hold That Thought
Series: Going Global
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An urban studies professor explores some of the problems shared by cities around the globe.

  • Added: Oct 27, 2015
  • Length: 10:00
Heartland, Missouri
From: KBIA
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For the past year, KBIA has been working on an investigative story about a place in Northeast Missouri called Heartland. It’s a story with threads ...

  • Added: Apr 28, 2015
  • Length: 28:30
Youth on Councils
From: Alaska Teen Media Institute
Caption: PRX default Piece image
What's a teenagers role on a community council?

  • Added: Jan 17, 2015
  • Length: 11:51
Interview with Latin Waves Host Sylvia Richardson
From: Latin Waves Media
Series: Latin Waves Media
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Sylvia L. Richardson is a PhD candidate in the Faculty of Education at Simon Fraser University. She is the host and producer of the internationally...

  • Added: Oct 22, 2014
  • Length: 28:39
Is Capitalism Working?
From: Open Source
Series: Open Source with Christopher Lydon
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Casey Stengel raised the question about baseball’s miserable Mets long ago: anybody here know how to play this game? It’s the question more and mor...

Bought by KZYX


  • Added: Oct 19, 2014
  • Length: 58:37
  • Purchases: 1
Profile: Isaac Lappert – Cannabis Creamery
From: Cannabis Radio News
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Isaac Lappert is President of Cannabis Creamery Ice Cream Company. Working with Cali Labs, Lappert crafts premium quality medicated ice cream. CRN’...

  • Added: Sep 23, 2014
  • Length: 10:15
Dispensary and cultivation ban in Fresno and Fresno County, CA prompt lawsuits.
From: Cannabis Radio News
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The city of Fresno and Fresno County have banned all medical marijuana dispensaries and cannabis cultivation within their borders, and in a high ri...

  • Added: Aug 18, 2014
  • Length: 13:20
Seattle Hempfest Executive Director Vivian McPeak
From: Cannabis Radio News
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Since its beginning in 1991, the Seattle Hempfest has become an international rallying point for marijuana legalization advocates, and never more s...

  • Added: Aug 12, 2014
  • Length: 07:41
Federal incentives distract police from violent crime
From: Cannabis Radio News
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Stephen Downing is a retired LAPD Deputy Chief and an executive board member of Law Enforcement Against Prohibition or LEAP. He spoke with CRN’s B...

  • Added: Aug 06, 2014
  • Length: 09:01