Public Radio Exchange

Xconomy on PRX and the Public Radio Player iPhone app

Jake posted on Tuesday, August 18th, 2009 | Blog, PRX in the News

Wade Roush from Xconomy came by PRX HQ last week and we ended up having a wide-ranging conversation about PRX’s history and current focus as well as our hot item at the moment – the Public Radio Player iPhone app that is garnering significant attention and usage.

Xconomy is a smart online news service focused on emerging business and technology in Boston, Seattle, and San Diego – the non-Silicon Valley hotbeds of innovation and entrepreneurship. We read it regularly here at PRX so it was great to merit a big feature that digs deeper into the PRX story.

Here’s an excerpt, read the full piece here.

At first, the mission of the Public Radio Exchange was simple enough: Create an online clearinghouse for news-and-culture radio programming where public radio stations would have an easier time shopping for shows and independent producers would have a better shot at getting their stuff on the air. PRX launched that system in 2003, and it’s now used by 400 stations across the country. But one thing leads to another—and under the entrepreneurial leadership of its founding executive director, Jake Shapiro, the Cambridge, MA, non-profit has developed from a mere marketplace into an increasingly disruptive force in the public radio ecosystem.

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