Our Spring Fund Drive ended on April 30th and we finished within a whisker of our $120,000 goal — raising $117,480! Thanks so much to everyone who contributed! Also, a big thank you to our nearly 4,000 annual sustaining contributors who support our work throughout the year!There's still time ... donate today!

By now, you have probably heard that I will be retiring as the host of First Concert at the end of June. It has been an amazing experience for me to discover and share with you so much beautiful music that I was unfamiliar with and enlarge the catalog of classical music here at JPR.

Edwards, a consummate newsman, hosted NPR's morning show for more than two decades. "He sort of set the tone and the bar for all of us," says one former NPR executive.

"At our first staff meeting there were no chairs (or tables) but there were eager people with lots of plans sitting on the floor and I was one of them," Wertheimer writes.

JPR is expanding its award-winning news department and is seeking a Regional Reporter to join our news team. Regional Reporters work from JPR’s newsroom…

It’s budget season in Washington, D.C. and that usually means some amount of drama. While the season is still relatively young, already the House Appropriations Committee may soon consider a draft bill that would call for the elimination of all federal funding for public broadcasting.

An email from NPR this week announced that NPR is “actively engaged in developing a framework and set of principles to guide its decision-making on all aspects of AI (Artificial Intelligence) investment and usage.” The email went on to say that NPR would be consulting with experts across a wide range of areas, including editorial, legal, security and data governance, to evaluate how AI might be used at NPR and across the NPR Network.

Every year since 2019, Jefferson Public Radio has hosted a summer intern through the Charles Snowden Program for Excellence in Journalism. The University of Oregon program places recent and soon-to-be graduates from all Oregon colleges in newsrooms across the state.

The JPR newsroom received a series of awards in 2023 from the Radio Television Digital News Association, the Public Media Journalists Association and the Society of Professional Journalists. Listener support makes all of this high-quality, local journalism possible!

Our Fall Fund Drive ended on October 31st and we finished within a whisker of our $120,000 goal — raising $117,705! Thanks so much to everyone who contributed! Also, a big thank you to our nearly 4,000 annual sustaining contributors who support our work throughout the year!There's still time ... donate today!

WNYC's The Takeaway is ending production this June. Beginning June 3rd, JPR's News & Information service will undergo changes as a result.