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Topic: Letters Sent to Romenesko
Date/Time: 12/14/2006 10:07:41 AM
Title: NPR didn't hit Winer up for a donation
Posted By: Jim Romenesko
 
From ANDI SPORKIN, NPR vice president for communications: Re -- The blogger who got the donation request letter from This I Believe. The letter [to Dave Winer] did not come from NPR but from This I Believe, Inc. the independent non-profit org that runs the well-known national essay multimedia project. TIBI's relationship with NPR is solely as an independent producer (similar to Dave Isay/SoundPortraits and his StoryCorps weekly segments or Joe Richman and his Radio Diaries pieces); we have a distribution agreement to air about 40-50 of their weekly This I Believe essays annually in our broadcasts.

The NPR element of the project is only a fraction of its work: TIBI also uses the essay entries it receives in a book that was just released, extensively on its website and with schools and community groups. Submissions of essays are made to TIBI, not NPR, and TIBI makes the selections; likewise, this solicitation for donations came from TIBI, not us. The first I learned about the solicitation, written by XM host Bob Edwards on the project’s behalf, was actually on your website.

While we at NPR haven’t received any letters to date, I'm hoping I can pre-empt any potential confusion about this by getting it clarified. [Permalink]

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