Terry Green Blogs About KUSP

Today marks forty years since National Public Radio was founded. The incorporation date was February 26, 1970. The first broadcast of “All Things Considered” aired a little over a year after NPR’s founding, on May 3, 1971.

KUSP joined NPR in 1984.

As one illustration of how much things have changed over the years, NPR announced recently that its staff won fifteen awards for excellence in photography from the White House News Photographers Association. Most of the awards were for work in Afghanistan, which you can see by following the link. NPR is truly a multi-media news organization today, and we’re proud to have been an NPR member for the past twenty-six years.

KUSP is very happy to be a media sponsor of the What’s Next Lecture Series, hosted by UC Santa Cruz, NextSpace Coworking + Innovation, and the City of Santa Cruz. We’ll be working with their team to spread the word about this project, which envisions a broad-based community dialogue on civic issues of all kinds.

The first lecture is titled “Sustainability and Social Innovation: Doing Well by Doing Good” and happens at Kuumbwa Jazz Center on Cedar Street in Santa Cruz Thursday night, February 18, starting at 7:00. Get tickets here.