NPR will welcome three journalism scholars from Mills College, Hamline University and Swarthmore College this fall as the 2010-2011 Joan B. Kroc Fellows. Now in its sixth year, the Kroc Fellowship ...

Talk about how to spend Joan Kroc’s record-setting $200 million gift to NPR began at a meeting of the network’s board last week, as giddiness lingered in the form of backslapping and big smiles.

After initially being located in the Martin Hotel, KROC radio moved to the 101 First Avenue building, where its call letters were visible on the roof, high above downtown Rochester. Rochester ...

Program alumni talk about the Kroc year and how it has shaped their careers. No two Kroc Fellowships are the same; each fellow shapes the year in their own way. We asked some of our alumni to tell us ...

RW Online recently reported that NPR intends to expand its news division with the interest from the funding it’s getting from the late McDonald’s heiress Joan Kroc. We reported the network intends to ...

The NPR Kroc Fellowship is a yearlong program designed to identify and develop the next generation of extraordinary public media journalists. This week we're welcoming our new Kroc Fellows to NPR: ...

My story about the job cuts at Cumulus Media's Rochester radio stations is out there now, but here's some of what Steve Skogen had to say as well as Megan Kennedy. National financial woes reached ...

Joan B. Kroc never set foot inside the National Public Radio home office in Washington, D.C. She didn't socialize with the top executives, phone in to contribute to the dialogue or send fan letters to ...

The days when National Public Radio is forced to ask member stations to hold fund-raising drives just so it can stay on the air are over -- at least for the foreseeable future. The estate of the late ...

No two Kroc Fellowships are the same; each fellow shapes the year in their own way. We asked some of our alumni to tell us about their experience and offer advice for future applicants. I was a ...