[Commlist] New book: Listeners Like Who? Exclusion and Resistance in the Public Radio Industry

New Book

Listeners Like Who? Exclusion and Resistance in the Public Radio Industry

By Laura Garbes


https://press.princeton.edu/books/paperback/9780691257426/listeners-like-who 


Receive a 30% discount when you order at the link above using code P327.


The US's National Public Radio was established in 1970 with a mission to 
provide programming for all Americans, yet the gap between public 
radio’s pluralistic mandate and its failure to serve marginalized 
communities has plagued the industry from the start. Listeners Like Who? 
takes readers inside the public radio industry, revealing how the 
network’s sound and listenership are reflections of its inherent 
whiteness, and describing the experiences of the nonwhite journalists 
who are fighting for change.

Drawing on institutional archives, oral histories, and original in-depth 
interviews with journalists of color in public radio, Laura Garbes shows 
that when NPR and its affiliate stations first began its appeals for 
donations from “listeners like you,” it was appealing to white, 
well-educated donors. She discusses how this initial focus created a 
sustainable financial model in the face of government underfunding, but 
how these same factors have alienated broad swaths of nonwhite and 
working-class audiences and limited the creative freedoms of nonwhite 
public radio workers. Garbes tells the stories of the employees of color 
who are disrupting the aesthetic norms and narrative practices embedded 
in the industry.

Centering sound in how we think about the workplace and organizational 
life, Listeners Like Who? provides insights into the media’s role in 
upholding racial inequality and the complex creative labor by nonwhite 
journalists to expand who and what gets heard on public radio.

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