NPR as a Platform

NPR, or National Public Radio, is an online platform that regularly publishes nonfiction audio and written stories about a variety of topics.

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NPR is a nonprofit organization that creates and distributes news stories to a large audience trying to “create a more informed public.” According to NPR, they hold themselves to be accurate, fair, complete, honest, independent, impartial, transparent, accountable, respectful, and produce a high-quality story. They try to be accurate by verifying information and challenging what assumptions they have coming into a story. To be fair is to be professional and make a reasonable effort to get the side of those who might be criticized. They try to tell a complete story by avoiding errors of omission and explaining if they do not know something. NPR aims to be honest by giving credit to those who provide information and by avoiding fiction and being honest about any hypothetical situations.

NPR publishes very frequently, with stories coming out more than once a day, with each organized with ones like it.