Illustration for Nieman Reports

Here is the third and last image of a series I did for The Nieman Reports magazine published by Harvard University.

It was very exciting to work on this article, the radio is an element that gives me so many ideas. Many thanks to Dan for choosing me for this project.

About the article:
Mixed Signals

FM radio kept the NPR system resilient well into the digital age. Now the lifeline is fraying.

At the end of summer, the leaders of the nearly 250 public radio stations in the United States received a memo from NPR headquarters in Washington — “the mother ship,” as many station employees call it — about coverage plans for the coming months. Each station has its own hosts, reporters, and management, but memos like this have a tremendous bearing on those stations, because NPR shows like “Morning Edition” and “All Things Considered” are the tentpoles of the broadcast day. And for the last few years, those tentpoles had been sinking. Ratings at stations across the country dropped an average of 22 percent from 2017. […]

Written by Gabe Bullard