Early next year, NPR will open a large production facility in Los Angeles to expand its presence and reach in the West. Already, NPR has a Los Angeles news bureau staff of 12. Worldwide, NPR also has bureaus in major cities such as London, Rome, Tokyo, New Delhi and Rio de Janeiro. Currently, the typical NPR listener is a man in his early 40s. Klose said the gender tilt will soon split evenly between men and women.
Most listeners are college-educated.
Nationally, NPR has about 15 million listeners in any given week. That's up by about 2 million since Klose came on board. Funding sources Organized 31 years ago this month, NPR has increasingly become less dependent on taxpayer-supported funding. Fees from NPR member stations account for 47 percent of NPR's budget. The remaining half of the budget is evenly divided between support from foundations and underwriting from corporations.