Talk:NPR

message: Version 01:51, 19 October 2022‎ X-Editor of this article is translated into Chinese Wikipedia to expand an existing article there.--Wing (talk) 08:19, 19 October 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Translation into Chinese Wikipedia 

message: From their website in 2010: " Our legal name remains National Public Radio, as it has been for more than 40 years, but our trademarked brand has long been NPR. " 164.47.179.32 (talk) 18:31, 1 November 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  NPR or National Public Radio 

message: The article currently says "NPR receives receive a small number of competitive grants from CPB and federal agencies like the Department of Education and the Department of Commerce.[27][better source needed] This funding amounts amounted to less than 0.1% of revenues, according its IRS filing". (I changed it just now from claiming that this is according to ProPublica- the reference is actually to NPR's IRS form 990, hosted on ProPublica's site, but is not a statement by ProPublica). 
The form itself does not contain the "less than 0.1% of revenues" claim. This number seems to have been derived by taking the line item for "Government  grants" (Part VIII, 1-e) - 210,000, and dividing it by total revenue, yielding ~0.07%. But I wonder if this is permissible without the source explicitly saying so. Especially when we have addiotnal line items (such as 1-d, for "related organizations") whose definition is not clear. Red Slapper (talk) 19:59, 22 April 2023 (UTC)
replies: text: Basic arithmetical calculations are allowed on Wikipedia, per WP:CALC. Binksternet (talk) 21:37, 22 April 2023 (UTC)
replies: text: Per WP:CALC, only if "there is consensus among editors that the results of the calculations are correct, and a meaningful reflection of the sources" - that bolded part is what I am questioning. Do you have a clear idea what the "related organizations" are (as just one example)? If not, this is not a meaningful reflection of the source. Red Slapper (talk) 22:23, 22 April 2023 (UTC)
replies: text: NPR gets a very small amount of direct federal money. Indirect federal money is about 9 percent. Generally, the media are in agreement that somewhere around 1 percent of NPR's income comes directly from federal grants. Forbes said "NPR gets roughly 1-2% of its funding from the federal government". The New York Times said "About 1 percent of its budget comes from federal money". Politico said "less than 1 percent of the news outlet’s annual operating budget comes in the form of grants from the Corporation for Public Broadcasting and federal agencies and departments." The Boston Globe quoted Influence Watch saying "Presently, NPR receives funding for less than 1 percent of its budget directly from the federal government", but added that NPR gets "almost 10 percent of its budget from federal, state, and local governments indirectly." Note that ProPublica does not need to be involved for access to filings. NPR hosts its own income tax filings at this webpage, and they state "On average, less than 1% of NPR's annual operating budget comes in the form of grants from CPB and federal agencies and departments." Of course they mean "directly" from the federal government. They don't chart out the indirect paths. Binksternet (talk) 22:51, 22 April 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Funding in the 2020s