Mission

Public Radio International's mission is to serve audiences with distinctive programming that provides information, insights and cultural experiences essential to understanding a diverse, interdependent world.

Core Principles

Public Radio International recognizes as core principles:

• the central role played by diversity in our nation's past and its importance to our future;
  
  
• the urgent need to understand connections between American life and cultures around the globe;
  
  
• the responsibility of public media to encourage the exchange of ideas and search for common principles fundamental to a civil society; and
  
  
• the power of sound and of the spoken word to engage the mind and nurture the human spirit.

Public Radio International has distinguished itself by producing, acquiring and distributing innovative content that enables U.S. audiences to "hear a different voice," bringing new voices and global perspectives to the public airwaves. Through partnerships with BBC World Service and station-based and independent producers, the Minneapolis-based network provides over 400 hours of programming each week, content that is broadcast and streamed online by 827 PRI affiliates nationwide. PRI's programming is also available on XM Public Radio. Podcasts of PRI programs consistently rank in the top U.S. 100. PRI owns Public Interactive LLC, public broadcasting's leading Web services company.