Nashville Public Radio
Programs
Budget
$500,000.00
Description
This is Nashville is a live one-hour daily show driven by the community and produced for the community. It is a one-stop-shop for news, culture, curiosity, history, and everything else in Nashville and Middle Tennessee. This is Nashville produces infinitely unique stories, giving an opportunity for citizen voices to share their perspectives, expertise, and opinions during thoughtful on-air discussions. A major program goal is to give a voice and platform to citizens, topics, and issues which have been underserved, overlooked, or suppressed in Nashville's broader dialogue, even though they make up a core part of the civic and cultural fabric of our city. Thus, 52% of all This is Nashville sources to-date have been Black, indigenous, or people of color (more diverse than Nashville as a whole), and topics often focus on marginalized population groups (e.g., older adults, religious minorities, immigrants, individuals with disabilities, and many more).
Program Areas Served
Nashville and Middle Tennessee
$500,000.00
Description
This is Nashville is a live one-hour daily show driven by the community and produced for the community. It is a one-stop-shop for news, culture, curiosity, history, and everything else in Nashville and Middle Tennessee. This is Nashville produces infinitely unique stories, giving an opportunity for citizen voices to share their perspectives, expertise, and opinions during thoughtful on-air discussions. A major program goal is to give a voice and platform to citizens, topics, and issues which have been underserved, overlooked, or suppressed in Nashville's broader dialogue, even though they make up a core part of the civic and cultural fabric of our city. Thus, 52% of all This is Nashville sources to-date have been Black, indigenous, or people of color (more diverse than Nashville as a whole), and topics often focus on marginalized population groups (e.g., older adults, religious minorities, immigrants, individuals with disabilities, and many more).
Program Areas Served
Nashville and Middle Tennessee
Budget
$3,700,000.00
Description
WPLN News is the only nonprofit radio news source in Middle Tennessee. The Newsroom's award-winning information programming is praised for its accuracy, balance, and perspective and its ability to place events and decisions in an historical, political, and social context. We help listeners make informed decisions that improve the quality of life for themselves and our community. The service includes in-depth national news and features from NPR, as well as local news and investigative journalism featuring coverage in: arts & culture, music journalism, criminal justice, education, environment, health care, housing, metro government, equity & discrimination, and state politics. WPLN has the only full-time environmental reporter in Tennessee and is one of the relatively few outlets with full-time reporters covering metro government, statehouse legislation, education, music journalism, and healthcare.
Program Areas Served
None
$3,700,000.00
Description
WPLN News is the only nonprofit radio news source in Middle Tennessee. The Newsroom's award-winning information programming is praised for its accuracy, balance, and perspective and its ability to place events and decisions in an historical, political, and social context. We help listeners make informed decisions that improve the quality of life for themselves and our community. The service includes in-depth national news and features from NPR, as well as local news and investigative journalism featuring coverage in: arts & culture, music journalism, criminal justice, education, environment, health care, housing, metro government, equity & discrimination, and state politics. WPLN has the only full-time environmental reporter in Tennessee and is one of the relatively few outlets with full-time reporters covering metro government, statehouse legislation, education, music journalism, and healthcare.
Program Areas Served
None
Budget
$825,000.00
Description
91.1 FM WNXP is Nashville's human-curated music discovery experience. With free public access across platforms, we provide artists with the time and space needed to tell their stories in a personal, context-rich, and nuanced fashion. Content is accessible via on-air studio recordings, digital artist interviews and performances, live events, and through various journalistic reporting on artists' contexts within their art form and the broader community. WNXP programming reflects all that Music City has to offer aside from mainstream country music. As such, genre runs the gamut with indie-rock, hip hop, urban alternative, electro-pop, folk, and more, as does artist career stage, from emerging and established artists to those forgotten and overlooked. Whenever possible, we create full-circle experiences, showcasing artists through a song, a story, a session, and a show. You won't find this depth of engagement on the mainstream airwaves.
Program Areas Served
None
$825,000.00
Description
91.1 FM WNXP is Nashville's human-curated music discovery experience. With free public access across platforms, we provide artists with the time and space needed to tell their stories in a personal, context-rich, and nuanced fashion. Content is accessible via on-air studio recordings, digital artist interviews and performances, live events, and through various journalistic reporting on artists' contexts within their art form and the broader community. WNXP programming reflects all that Music City has to offer aside from mainstream country music. As such, genre runs the gamut with indie-rock, hip hop, urban alternative, electro-pop, folk, and more, as does artist career stage, from emerging and established artists to those forgotten and overlooked. Whenever possible, we create full-circle experiences, showcasing artists through a song, a story, a session, and a show. You won't find this depth of engagement on the mainstream airwaves.
Program Areas Served
None
Budget
$275,000.00
Description
While music is core to Nashville's identity, local journalists covering musical artists and the industry structures that surround them are almost non-existent. This local trend reflects a national shift, in which diminishing financial incentives hinder in-depth and thoughtful coverage of local or niche music scenes. As Nashville's only organization with thriving operations in both news and music, Nashville Public Radio is committed to bridging this gap and becoming the leader for music journalism in Music City. This work is led by Senior Music Writer Jewly Hight and supported in a joint effort behind-the-scenes by WNXP and WPLN staff. An undeniable authority in the field, Jewly has worked as Nashville-based music critic and journalist for two decades. Along the way she began contributing to international news outlets including NPR, the New York Times, The Los Angeles Times, The Guardian, Billboard, Vulture/New York Magazine, Slate, Pitchfork, MTV.com, and Rolling Stone Country.
Program Areas Served
None
$275,000.00
Description
While music is core to Nashville's identity, local journalists covering musical artists and the industry structures that surround them are almost non-existent. This local trend reflects a national shift, in which diminishing financial incentives hinder in-depth and thoughtful coverage of local or niche music scenes. As Nashville's only organization with thriving operations in both news and music, Nashville Public Radio is committed to bridging this gap and becoming the leader for music journalism in Music City. This work is led by Senior Music Writer Jewly Hight and supported in a joint effort behind-the-scenes by WNXP and WPLN staff. An undeniable authority in the field, Jewly has worked as Nashville-based music critic and journalist for two decades. Along the way she began contributing to international news outlets including NPR, the New York Times, The Los Angeles Times, The Guardian, Billboard, Vulture/New York Magazine, Slate, Pitchfork, MTV.com, and Rolling Stone Country.
Program Areas Served
None
Budget
$450,000.00
Description
No initiative explores the power of storytelling more deeply than Investigative and Longform Journalism. Our longform work combines the magnetism of movies with the authority, investigative expertise, and fact checking prowess of the WPLN Newsroom. What results is a compelling audio journey that explores deeply complex themes with empathy and nuance - all while captivating the listener and leaving them eager for more. Nashville Public Radio's sweet spot is local stories that overlap with issues of national appeal. Criteria for story selection are strict. We will only report a story when it explores revelatory facts about untold stories, through people-centered investigations. We avoid transactional, "gotcha" reporting and instead focus on the heart, intentions, and complexities of the people behind the stories. It is through this power that listeners begin to confront the past, mend fractured relationships, understand broken policies, and collectively find a way forward.
Program Areas Served
None
$450,000.00
Description
No initiative explores the power of storytelling more deeply than Investigative and Longform Journalism. Our longform work combines the magnetism of movies with the authority, investigative expertise, and fact checking prowess of the WPLN Newsroom. What results is a compelling audio journey that explores deeply complex themes with empathy and nuance - all while captivating the listener and leaving them eager for more. Nashville Public Radio's sweet spot is local stories that overlap with issues of national appeal. Criteria for story selection are strict. We will only report a story when it explores revelatory facts about untold stories, through people-centered investigations. We avoid transactional, "gotcha" reporting and instead focus on the heart, intentions, and complexities of the people behind the stories. It is through this power that listeners begin to confront the past, mend fractured relationships, understand broken policies, and collectively find a way forward.
Program Areas Served
None
