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Xin Jin

May 6th, 2016 in Previous Semesters, Spring 2016

A Trip to NPR Headquarters

Xin Jin
Spring 2016

On one of our regular Friday field trips, I had an opportunity to visit NPR’s headquarters in DC. As a journalism student and a listener of public radios, I fully enjoyed a nice hour-long tour in NPR.

NPR is located in the NoMa neighborhood of Washington DC. Once in the lobby, I saw a museum-style storyboard that stretched along the wall telling the history of NPR. It was founded in 1970 and began with 90 member stations. However, our tour guide says, nowadays, NPR has more than 975 public radio stations all over the country. More

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