National public radio in us and new technologies: a menace or growth opportunity?

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Satine L. Ogadzhianyan

PhD Student, Faculty of Journalism, Lomonosov Moscow State University, Moscow, Russia

e-mail: black.amber@gmail.com

Section: Foreign Journalism

The article analyzes common tendencies in development of National Public Radio (USA), i.e. its steps towards convergence, interactivity, multimedia, new broadcasting platforms, and others. The author gives an opinion on changes in the sphere of public broadcasting caused by the technological evolution.

Keywords: public radio, public broadcasting in the USA, public broadcasting service, National Public Radio, new media technologies