Annual Report 2018

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AWARD WINNING MEDIA LAB STUDENT

NEPR ARTS REPORTER JILL KAUFMAN ON FINDING A GOOD STORY

BINGE WORTHY LISTENS

Annual Report July 2017 – June 2018 Katie Moonan

WHAT DOES IT TAKE TO BRING YOU NEPR? 20,000 FEET OF WIRE AND FOUR MILES OF CABLE n behalf of the NEPR Foundation Board of Directors, our music hosts, reporters and staff members, I want to personally thank you for your generosity and for being part of our listening community. New England Public Radio would not be here without Oyour passionate support. Whether you’ve been an underwriter since the early years of WFCR, or just became a first-time member, we are incredibly grateful for your support. In these pages you’ll read about our newsroom’s accomplishments this year, and the varied public events we produced to help deepen community engagement around important topics. You’ll learn our music host’s picks for the year’s best albums, and hear from longtime NEPR reporter Jill Kaufman about her new beat — our region’s arts and culture scene. We hope you enjoy this peek inside your public radio station! Thank you for your generous support. Keep listening.

Warmly.

Martin Miller CEO and General Manager New England Public Radio

Media Lab alum Gary Campbell and NEPR CEO and General Manager Martin Miller Seen together at #YouthMakeMedia — an exhibition on view at the UMass College of Education in the Fall of 2018 that shared curriculum and student stories.

All photos are by Joyce Skowyra/NEPR unless otherwise credited. WELCOME RIMA! New England Public Radio welcomed A. Rima Dael as the station’s executive director of development and major gifts this year. Rima has served in the role as interim director since November of 2017. “We are delighted to welcome Rima to the NEPR team,” said CEO and General Manager, Martin Miller. “She brings 20 years of development, marketing, and teaching experience to NEPR, and arrives at a critical time in NEPR’s history as we begin to develop plans to execute a very ambitious strategic plan and raise the resources to provide even greater service to our region.” Prior to joining NEPR last fall, Rima was the executive director of institutional advancement and foundation at Springfield Technical Community College (STCC) and the executive director at Country Dance and Song Society, an international arts service organization for North American traditional dance, music and song. She was also a founding faculty member of the Nonprofit Management and Philanthropy graduate program at Bay Path University. She continues as an adjunct professor in the program.

In August, Evelyn and Gil Billings received The Lynne A. Shapiro Award for their dedication to NEPR. As GIVE & GET DOWN thanks for their generous support of New England Public Radio, volunteers and underwriters gathered NEPR scene for an end-of-summer party at Jacob’s Pillow.

4 2018 PODCASTS bingeable listen

Left to Right: William Styron, Great God of Depression logo, Pagan Kennedy and Karen Brown

aren Brown’s voice is familiar to New England Public Radio listeners — the senior reporter covers science and mental health for NEPR and is regularly featured on NPR’s nationally syndicated news magazines, Morning Edition and All Things Considered. KThis year, she’s added “podcast producer” to her resume. Her five-part podcast, The Great God of Depression premiered on Showcase from PRX’s Radiotopia with support from New England Public Radio this summer. The Guardian declared it “bingeable”. The Great God of Depression is a five-part narrative podcast co-produced by NEPR senior reporter Karen Brown and New York Times journalist Pagan Kennedy. It tells the true story of literary genius William Styron, brilliant brain scientist Alice Flaherty, and their shared quest to understand the secrets of madness and creativity. The series also explores how Styron’s groundbreaking memoir Darkness Visible changed the conversation around mental illness. NEPR was incredibly proud to work with Karen and the team at Radiotopia on the podcast. In September, we hosted a listening party at Gateway City Arts in Holyoke featuring Pagan Kennedy, podcast host and co-producer, Ian Coss, musician and sound designer, Julie Shapiro, executive producer of Radiotopia, and Alice Flaherty, a Boston neurologist and subject of the story. The event offered an opportunity to listen to the first episode of the series together and talk about the mental illness and its impact on creativity with members of the community.

Listen to the full series at radiotopia.fm/podcasts/showcase or nepr.net/greatgodofdepression

NEPR Annual Report 3 EVENTS a decade of art champions

1. A and H Awards by Josh Simpson 2. NEPR Reporter and host Kari Njiiri 3. NEPR commentary editor Tema Silk and NPR reporter Karen Grigsby Bates 4. Springfield Sci-Tech Band

A sell-out crowd packed the Log Cabin to celebrate the 10th year of New England public Radio’s signature spring celebration, The NEPR Arts and Humanities Awards in May. The NEPR Foundation was pleased to honor The Literacy Project; poet and founder of Springfield’s Teatro V!da, Magdalena Gómez and music director of the Hartford Symphony Orchestra, Carolyn Kuan with the 2018 award. David Tebaldi, executive director of Mass Humanities was honored with the first ever “Lifetime Achievement” award. Dr. Tebaldi retired in October after 33 years at the helm of Mass Humanities. Guests were treated to a wonderful evening of celebration including a live interview with Karen Grigsby Bates of NPR’s Code Switch team and a surprise appearance by the Springfield Sci-Tech Band who won the award in 2012. They were among the many previous recipients to return to celebrate the arts with New England Public Radio’s friends and supporters. While she was here for the Arts and Humanities Awards, Ms. Grigsby-Bates was also the featured speaker at NEPR’s first Sustainer Breakfast event. She spoke with NEPR reporter Karen Brown about her beat, and the role that public media has to play in the era of fake news.

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Stavans and Suarez In April, NEPR hosted veteran journalist Ray Suarez for a conversation with Ilan Stavans, host of NEPR’s In Contrast podcast at the The UMass Springfield Campus across the street from our headquarters. The two spoke about the role of the media in today’s society and the exchange inspired a in-depth seven-part special of the podcast featuring an extended conversation on the topic “What’s Wrong with American Media?” You can listen to this and other episodes of the podcast at NEPR’s podcast hub nepr.net/podcasthub or wherever you listen to podcasts.

Jazz, Baby! NEPR’s annual jazz holiday party was held at The Hotel Northampton in December 0f 2017. The 1920’s-themed Jazz, Baby! featured music by Kellso’s Hot Six and Hotsy Totsy, a variety of vintage vendors including the Botaniste and BMc Vintage of Easthampton, and Vapor City Vintage of Northampton; a vintage portrait studio by Sloan Norris Tomlinson and dance lessons with the Lindy League of Western Massachusetts. The sell-out crowd came dressed to impress, decked out in strings of pearls, shiny spats and plenty of fringe — all in support of New England Public Radio! EVENTS Sloan Tomlinson Top Local Stories of FY2018* NEWS and BREWS Routine Mailing To Dairy 1 Farmers Included A Rare Note: “Springfield’s Big Gamble” Suicide Hotline Info In June, New England Public Radio and by Sam Hudzik the New England News Collaborative Kentucky Group Gives hosted “Springfield’s Big Gamble,” a lively 2 Western Mass. A Lesson On discussion with some of the region’s top Coal Country by Karen Brown reporters on the casino beat. This special edition News and Brews was held at Valley New England Colleges: High 3 School Walkouts Will Not Venture Mentors in downtown Springfield. Affect Admissions “These casinos are such a huge news by Sean Teehan story for Springfield, East Windsor, and Fires That ‘Suddenly Erupted the whole region. And it’s an incredibly 4 From The Ground’: A Disaster complicated story — with plenty of In Maine, Remembered by Jill Kaufmann winners and losers,” said Sam Hudzik, news director at New England Public Tackling The N-Word On Radio. “We were able to bring together 5 Campus, After Her Famous Father Used It On Stage some brilliant reporters who know this by Karen Brown issue inside and out and have a real community conversation on what lies ahead.” The conversation was moderated by John Dankosky, executive editor of the New England News Collaborative and host of the radio program and podcast NEXT. Panelists included G. Michael Dobbs, managing editor of the The Reminder newspapers; Frederick Hurst, publisher of An African-American Point of View; Kristin Palpini, reporter for The Berkshire Eagle and Mark Pazniokas, capitol bureau chief for The Connecticut Mirror.

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New England Public Radio’s newsroom picked up three first-place PRNDI Awards this year from Public Radio News Directors Inc., an independent organization of public radio news directors. The awards spanned a broad number of categories: Best Commentary, Best Interview and Best Soft Feature. We’re honored to be recognized by other public radio journalists, but mostly we’re just honored to be able to share these stories with our listeners. — Sam Hudzik, News Director Best Commentary A Son Reckons With His Father’s Hunger To Escape Poverty Written by: Gary Campbell A graduate of New England Public Radio’s Media Lab program wrote this piece about his father, who no longer lives at home with him. See page 8. Best Interview Embedded In Harvard Forest For One Year, To Study One Tree Reported by: Carrie Healy Author Lynda Mapes spent a year in the Harvard Forest in Petersham, Massachusetts, chronicling a single tree. This red oak stands in one of the oldest and most intensively studied research landscapes in North America. Best Soft Feature Millennial Magnum PIs: Recent College Grads Become Private Investigators Reported by: Karen Brown Entering the job market out of college can be fraught — and require some creative gumption. Consider Andrew: a friendly, lanky recent graduate of Elms College. Andrew is a private eye — well, officially, “private investigator,” but who can resist a little noir embellishment?

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The PRNDI Best Commentary award was given to Gary Campbell, a 2017 graduate of Springfield High School for Science and Technology. Campbell completed the piece as a student in New England Public Radio’s Media Lab program, which teaches local youth audio journalism and production.

8 2018 Gary Campbell in class Carlos McBride, Director of NEPR Media Lab, with Gary Campbell A Son Reckons With His Father’s Hunger To Escape Poverty by Gary Campbell My name is Gary, first born of Sophia, and Gary senior. As a young boy, I had more stuff than the average kid. So did my brothers, Tyriek and Ke’naz. I never wondered why we got all these things. I just figured they were cool! My home was comfortable, clean, like the smell of OxiClean and Fabuloso. But at times there was also a different aroma. That other smell I’d been smelling all my life was weed. And the person smoking it was my dad. My father, who was born in Saint Ann, Jamaica, was a weed dealer. He was also a block-party DJ. He’d play stuff he loved: hip-hop from Nas, Jay Z and Biggie, then reggae by Buju Banton, Garnett Silk and Bob Marley. When I was around seven, everything changed. My father began talking to himself, seeing things that weren’t there. It turned out he’d developed schizophrenia. My mom says it was activated by a hard drug given to him by one of my family members. Sometimes, even though you think they are, family isn’t family. After that, Dad moved to Chicago to live with my grandmother. Nobody told me why at the time. Or why we suddenly didn’t have Columbia coats, Timberlands and Polos to wear. Life became difficult. Catastrophic is probably more like it. I didn’t know what welfare was until welfare hit us. My mom had four more kids with two other fathers. Sometimes they were not around either. I had to grow up — fast. I couldn’t afford to be reckless like other kids. I was too worried about how my family was going to make it. My dream has always been to stay in school and write music. But in eighth grade I was invited to join a gang. The plan was to rob a Chinese-food delivery person. The money would help my mom. But I couldn’t stoop that low. I wanted to be true to myself and live according to the law. And I have. Sometimes I get to see dad in the summer. But even when I can’t, I talk to him on the phone and tell him I love him. I can’t see his face, but I know he’s smiling as he says, “I love you too, son.” There are times I look in the mirror and see in me my father’s eyes and his hunger to escape poverty. It’s frightening. But I take that hunger and I flip it to fuel my dreams. y

NEPR Annual Report 9 top music albums of 2018 from your favorite NEPR music hosts

TOM RENEY the Royal Liverpool 1905 by Shostakovich. JAZZ À LA MODE Philharmonic Andris Nelsons Harold Mabern, The Orchestra, conducted conducts the splendid Iron Man: Live at by Christian Lindberg. BSO in the latest Smoke All of the fire, jazz installment in the The 82-year-old and tenderness in project of recording pianist sounds as Bernstein’s music is all of Shostakovich’s sharp and powerful there, and it’s from an symphonies which has as ever leading English orchestra!!!! been recognized with his quartet (with Grammies for previous BEX TAYLOR saxophone phenom JAZZ À LA MODE recordings. Eric Alexander) on Stephen Riley, Hold PETER SOKOLOWSKI two sets of bebop, JAZZ À LA MODE ‘Em Joe blues and ballads at Kenny Barron, Riley’s tribute to an uptown New York Concentric Circles Sonny Rollins stays nightclub that’s a The veteran pianist true to the tenor virtual second home has a distinctive and saxophonist’s piano- to these hard bop graceful touch, and his less trio in spirit, even masters. new quintet of young down to the song players join him for an introductions. STEVE PETKE album as soulful as it CLASSICAL WALTER CARROLL is elegant. 2018 was the AFTERNOON 100th anniversary CLASSICAL KARI NJIIRI of the birth of JAZZ SAFARI My choice would be Leonard Bernstein, so the Boston Symphony Margo Rey, The Roots my pick is a recording Orchestra in the of Rey-Despacito of his popular Symphonies Nos. Margo orchestral works with 4 and 11 in the Year A wonderful Latin

10 2018 jazz re-imagining a concerto for alto- Bernstein during of the American saxophone and his centennial year, and Latin American orchestra. Great but this one offers songbook, sung in music all-around, a treasure trove English and Spanish and fantastic of his music for by Mexico-born Rey performances! Broadway, ballet and and co-produced film, including his by Grammy winning RAQUEL OBREGON seldom-heard Oscar- TERTULIA pianist, composer and nominated score for Espontaneo: The band leader Oscar the 1954 classic film Abdala Sessions Hernandez. On the Waterfront. Maykel Elizarde The performances Ruano, Dayron Ortega JOHN NOWACKI are vivid, the sound MORNING CLASSICAL Guzmán and Eduardo transparent, while My pick for 2018 is Silveira. Simple, Lindberg’s tempos are Spiritualist, featuring elegant and great often less hysterical the music of rhythms. Connecticut resident than some other and composer JON SOLINS conductors, letting CLASSICAL Kenneth Fuchs. The Bernstein’s rhythmic Bernstein: On complexity shine Grammy-nominated the Waterfront, CD includes a piano through. A treat from Royal Liverpool beginning to end. concerto, a concerto Philharmonic for electric guitar Orchestra and orchestra, music There were many for counter-tenor tributes to Leonard and orchestra, and

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SMELLS LIKE A GOOD STORY 5 Questions for NEPR’s Arts and Culture Reporter, Jill Kaufman About Having a Nose for the Creative in New England.

Jill has been reporting, producing features and commentaries, and hosting shows at NEPR since 2005. In September, along with NEPR news director Sam Hudzik, they launched a new ‘arts and culture’ beat, broadening what the news department has been doing for decades on radio, and more recently on the web: long format feature stories about theatrical and music performances, visual arts, cultural business developments, and stories about New England’s history and the changes underway. We asked Jill about what it’s like to cover our region’s vibrant arts scene.

There’s so much happening So with all that going on, in our region when it comes how do you decide what to the arts, how do you makes a story? choose which stories to cover? When there’s a news peg, like the opening of MGM in Springfield last Obviously, the story has to be September, that gives me a frame, connected to New England in and I dug in and looked for a some way. So I’ve been digging up creative side of the casino industry. stories about how people live, what Found it: I wrote a business story they create, how they think. We’ve about booking big name bands in increased our feature reports and the region, how with MGM in town, spot news about artists, events, it’s a new game, for better and for lifestyles, arts organizations, and worse, according to sources. The arts news in the context of politics, story gave us an excuse to look the economy, climate change, and back to when Springfield was a even health care. top destination for groups like the

NEPR Annual Report 13 Rolling Stones and Elvis. We had the price of milk may be soaring, lots of music to mix in — which or any number of big-ticket items if fun for listeners. We definitely coming out of Washington or need more fun. Boston or Hartford. But mostly like any reporter, I read a ton — press releases What has been and arts schedules. College and an unexpected or business websites. I talk to people surprising story you’ve — strangers and friends, and your covered on the arts and friends, media contacts, artists. culture beat? What are they seeing and what So much is unexpected, hearing are they thinking about. Who’s about people’s lives. What’s making what happen. The beat is surprised me is that I didn’t a lot of enterprise reporting. expect to be so moved by the Bottom line, it has to at least lengths regular people (as smell like a good story! But opposed to professional artists) we also want to make sure we go to be creative. And getting are covering everyone’s arts. the essence of that in a story for Everyone’s culture. I’m loathe to listeners — that’s a huge part of use the word ‘diversity’ because our work. we don’t want to pay lip service, So basically, you can and it’s a priority. say almost anything How do you see the (within reason) is arts arts impacting other and culture? parts of life in western New England? Yes! Within reason. Check out this quote out from Cristina De Rossi, We got this beat going because an anthropologist at Barnet and we believe the audience doesn’t Southgate College in London. I live and can’t thrive by news found it via WNYC. She says: alone. When a listener hears “Culture encompasses religion, about the context of how food, what we wear, how we wear a ‘piece’ of art is made or a it, our language, marriage, music, museum exhibit is curated, or is what we believe is right or wrong, introduced to a musician — who how we sit at the table, how we by day is a high school shop greet visitors, how we behave teacher, or learns that someone with loved ones, and a million took a chance by writing a play other things.” that speaks a certain truth, or A million other things... composed a new opera based on current events and Greek Thanks, Jill! You can hear Jill’s philosophy — that’s all impact. reporting on NEPR and find her That’s life. And it’s what we also stories at nepr.net. need in addition to learning why

14 2018 WHAT DOES IT TAKE TO BRING YOU NEPR? 382 PAIRS OF SOCKS TO NEPR DONORS THE NUMBERS 2018 REVENUE 2018 EXPENSES

47% Contributions $ 2,849,412 32% Programming $ 1,974,583 and Production 28% Underwriting $ 1,669,941 18% Fundraising $ 1,104,479 12% UMass In-Kind $ 721,164 13% Engineering $ 778,635 5% Corporation for $ 311,526 Public Broadcasting 10% Administration $ 600,195

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NEPR Board Members Indicated in Gold * Deceased 16 2018 Marietta Pritchard Lyn Walker Carole Bull and Molly Mead Claire Pryor Phebe Wallace John and Lale Burk Katherine Queeney and John Laura Wallis Angela Burke Staudenmayer Janet Wallstein and Jane Janet Bush James and Luce Reiss Dewey Durham and Jean Caldwell Richard and Helen Rescia Patricia Warner Patricia Callahan and David Wenda Restall Stephen and Sally Dee Dara Ribicoff Wittenberg Bob and Pat Calnen Marilyn Riddle Ruth Ann Woodley and Peter Eleanor Caplan Tony Rogers and Anne Gourley Jeffrey and Ann Caplan Nugent David and Elizabeth Woods Gerard Caprio and Jeanne Wisty Rorabacher and Judy Gail and Michael Yaffe Marklin Draper Margaret Zelljadt Mary Cardin Richard and Kathleen Rubin Michael and Cheryl Ziebka Barbara and Robert Carroll Ann Sagalyn, DMD and Elliot and Karin Cattarulla CONTRIBUTORS David Marks $500 - $999 John and Pamela Chandler Brenda Salyer and Annette Robert and Frances Abrams Carolyn Clark Tector Kathy Aidala Paul Clark and Carol Parrish Whitty Sanford and Tom Joanne Alderman and Doric Robert Clark and Fifi Miner Dods Scoufopoulos Jamina Scippio-McFadden Neil Aldin and Marylou The Clock Hollow Fund and Calvin McFadden Lacek Claudette Rhonda Cobham- Roy and Mary Ellen Scott Roger Alsbaugh Sander Select Equity Group, Inc. Larry Ambs and Jennifer Peter and Joan Cocks Daniel and Lynne Ann Kramer IL Cohen Foundation Shapiro Gloria Amhadjian Elisabeth Colt Stephen and Leslie Shatz Charlie and Deborah Austin Allison Cook Peter Siegelman and Sean Tom and Lynne Baker Lorna Coppinger Redding Jay Ballard Kathleen Cowles and Charles Mara Slawsky and Kirsten Michele Barale Adams Losert Rick Barnard Robert and Joan Cramer Smith College Mary and David Bartlett Sara Crawley Ruth Solie Janet Beatty Sarah Creighton Peggy and David Starr Laurence and Beth Beede James and Marion Crocker Patricia Steele-Perkins Sheila and Micky Rathbun Robert Cross Joan Steiger Peter Benjamin and Liz Julian and Robbie Crowell Barbara and Allen Steiger Bramson Miriam and Tom Curnin Catherine Stevens and Peter and Ellen Berek Robert and Deborah Juliette Meeus David and Iris Berkman Cushman Keith and Catherine Raymond Bertuzzi Steve Dacunha Stevenson Joe and Marie Bete A. Rima Dael and Brandon Elizabeth Stone and Marc Bunny Bewick Braxton Berman James and Sally Bianco Pamela and Peter D’Ambrosio Peter Straley and Donna Ross Joan and Bradley Biskup Steven and Joyana Damon Robert Strassler Adam and Barbara Blacksin Jeffrey Daniels and Kate Kristin Stueber Jeff and Marilyn Blaustein Miller Kumble and Mala Peter and Catherine Bloom Jonathan and Linda Daube Subbaswamy Tracy Bodine Sharon Davenport Roberta Swafford and David Cynthia and Gary Ron and Guiliana Davidoff Hoopes Bombardier Catharine Deely Kathleen Swaim Aili Bond Timothy Denney Elizabeth Swanson Andrea Bordenca John Deweese Sarah and Mark Tanner Bonnie Jean Dibelius

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