PLEDGE: The Public Radio Fund Drive
Don Merrill
NPR Celebrates 50 Years as New Audiobook, Based on 2019 s PLEDGE: The Public Radio Fund Drive , Examines Past, Present and Future of Public Radio.
This is the public radio listener s bible.” Lynn Fitch, Former KBOO Station ManagerOREGON CITY, OREGON, UNITED STATES, May 3, 2021 /EINPresswire.com/ When author and journalist Don Merrill finished a book about the public radio pledge drive in 2019, he wasn t thinking about how NPR s 50-year anniversary was just around the corner in 2021. NPR, as reported by CBS Sunday Morning, has a weekly audience of nearly 60-million listeners. The fact that only about one in 10 of those listeners support a network upon which they so clearly depend is one of the subjects of his new audio book, and upon which the printed version is based.