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==Radio program and podcast==

 

''On Being'' is an hour-long radio show and podcast, hosted by Krista Tippett.

 

In 2006, ''On Being'' became the first national public radio show to offer unedited interviews alongside the produced radio show in their podcast and on their website.<ref name=Mook>{{cite news|author=Mook, Ben|date=September 8, 2014|title=Naysayers be Damned, Public Radio's On Being Thrives as 'Social Enterprise'|newspaper= The Current|url=http://www.current.org/2014/09/naysayers-be-damned-public-radios-on-being-thrives-as-social-enterprise/|accessdate=December 3, 2014}}</ref>

 

Krista Tippett pitched a series of pilots on religion, meaning, and ethics to [[William Buzenberg|Bill Buzenberg]],<ref name=freedman>{{cite news |last=Freedman |first=Samuel |date=May 28, 2010 | title = Radio Program About Faith Defies the Skeptics|newspaper=New York Times | url = https://www.nytimes.com/2010/05/29/us/29religion.html?_r=0 | accessdate=February 4, 2015}}</ref> then Vice President for News at Minnesota Public Radio/American Public Media, in the late 1990s.<ref name=block>{{cite news|author=Block, Zachary|date=September 2003 |title=First-Person Singular|newspaper=Brown Alumni Magazine}}</ref>{{failed verification|date=February 2015}} The program became a monthly series in 2001<ref name=kay>{{cite news|author=Miller, Kay|date=November 2, 2002 |title=Radio for the Soul|newspaper=The Star Tribune|page=B5}}</ref> and a weekly national program distributed by [[American Public Media]] (APM) in 2003.<ref>{{cite news|author=Robinson, David|date=August 21, 2003 |title=Main Line Faith: 'Speaking of Faith' comes to Philadelphia |newspaper=Main Line Times}}</ref> In 2010, the show's name changed from ''Speaking of Faith'' to ''On Being''. In 2013, Tippett left APM to start the non-profit production company, Krista Tippett Public Productions, which she described as "a social enterprise with a radio show at its heart".<ref name=Mook/><ref name=Thomas>{{cite news|author=Thomas, Dylan|date=August 11, 2014 |title=On Being More Than Just a Radio Show|newspaper=The Southwest Journal| url=http://www.southwestjournal.com/news/news/on-being-more-than-just-a-radio-show|accessdate=December 2, 2014}}</ref>

 

As of July 2014, ''On Being'' aired on 334 public radio stations across the United States,<ref name=Boorstein/> and the ''On Being'' podcast reached a global audience of 1.5 million listeners a month.<ref name=Boorstein>{{cite news|author=Boorstein, Michelle |date=July 30, 2014 |title='On Being' host Krista Tippett on the Spiritual Life of a Religion Reporter|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/local/wp/2014/07/30/npr-on-being-host-krista-tippett-on-the-spiritual-life-of-a-religion-reporter/|accessdate=February 3, 2015}}</ref> ''On Being'' was listed in the iTunes top ten podcasts of 2014.<ref>{{cite news|date=December 9, 2014|title=iTunes Best of 2014|url=http://itunes.com/bestpodcasts2014}}</ref> In 2016, ''On Being'' changed distributors from APM to the [[Public Radio Exchange]].<ref>[https://blog.prx.org/2016/03/prx-to-distribute-onbeing/ PRX to Distribute On Being]</ref>

 

The ''[[Columbia Journalism Review]]'' said of ''On Being'' and Tippett, "To listen to her show is to hear how intelligent and thoughtful religious people can be when they are allowed to be subjective and not merely regurgitate dogma."<ref name=beckerman>{{cite news |last=Beckerman |first=Gal |date=May 2004 | title = Why Don't Journalists Get Religion?: A tenuous bridge to believers |work=Columbia Journalism Review | url = http://galbeckerman.com/essay7/ | accessdate=February 3, 2015}}</ref> In 2008 the show produced a series of programs called "Repossessing Virtue", exploring the spiritual and moral aspects of the economic recession.<ref name=marty>{{cite news|newspaper=Martin Marty Center for the Advanced Study of Religion| url=http://divinity.uchicago.edu/sightings/inner-life-new-meaning-%E2%80%94-krista-tippett|title=An Inner Life With New Meaning|last=Tippett|first=Krista|date=January 22, 2009|accessdate=February 3, 2015}}</ref>{{failed verification|date=February 2015}}{{who|date=February 2015}} Other series have included "Revealing Ramadan" and "Living Islam" and "The Civil Conversations Project." In 2014, ''On Being'' produced two radio specials. "Science on Human Frontiers" included interviews with Brian Greene, Natalie Batalha, [[S. James Gates]], Sylvia Earle, and Esther Sternberg. Most recently ''On Being'' produced a special series on "The American Consciousness," a collection of live interviews at the Chautauqua Institution with [[Michel Martin]], [[Richard Rodriguez]], [[Imani Perry]], and [[Nathan Schneider]].

 

Krista Tippett Public Productions (KTPP) was founded in 2013 by Krista Tippett as a non-profit production company with a 4,000-square-foot studio and live event space on Loring Park in Minneapolis.<ref name=Thomas/> KTPP manages the production and funding of the program, which is distributed by APM.<ref name=Mook/>

 

''On Being'' is the flagship podcast for KTPP but has also produced other podcasts. ''[[Becoming Wise]]'', is closely associated with Krista Tippett's 2016 book by the same name, and ''[[Creating Our Own Lives]]''. The later had its first season in 2016 and is anticipating the release of a second season in 2017.

 

 

In 2012, ''On Being'' began a series of interviews and live events which became the Civil Conversations Project. The initial four-part series was a collaboration of the [[Brookings Institution]], the Humphrey School, and the John C. Danforth Center on Religion and Politics. The project grew out of a sentiment that Tippett heard from many Americans who felt that our "civic life is broken, that bipartisan consensus is inconceivable".<ref name=SturHow>{{cite news|author=Sturdevant, Lori|date=September 15, 2012 |title=How do we break down our walls?|newspaper=Star Tribune |url=http://www.startribune.com/opinion/commentaries/169831366.html |accessdate= February 3, 2015}}</ref> Tippett says that "conduct in public spaces may be as important as the positions we take"; and "How do we walk in disagreement while keeping as much of our society intact as we can?"<ref name=SturHow/>

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[[Category:Peabody Award-winning radio programs]]