5 Best NEPR Podcasts
NEPR Podcasts
Here are 5 Best NEPR Podcasts worth listening to in 2025. Subscribe in one place on FeedSpot Reader.
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Word Matters is a show for readers, writers, and anyone who's curious about the English language. Join Merriam-Webster editors as they challenge supposed grammar rules, reveal the surprising origins behind words, tackle common questions, and generally geek out about the beautiful nightmare that is our language.MORE Hosts Emily Brewster, Ammon Shea, Peter Sokolowski
Producer/Network Merriam-Webster, New England Public Media
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Apple Rating 4.9/5Facebook 863.3KTwitter 1.1MInstagram 900.7K Avg Length 27 min Format Medium form Since Aug 2020 Get Email Contact Get access to full database of 2.7M podcastsCreate podcast lists, export in spreadsheet or CSV file with email contacts and start your podcast outreach in minutes.Sign Up for Free
2. Beacon Hill In 5
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Beacon Hill in 5 is a weekly check-in at the Massachusetts Statehouse from New England Public Media. Get a quick look at the week ahead in state politics and government with Carrie Healy, NEPM's Morning Edition host, and a journalist from the State House News Service.MORE Producer/Network Carrie Healy
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Apple Rating 5/5Facebook 17.7KTwitter 6.7KInstagram 10K Avg Length 6 min Format Bite size Get Email Contact
3. Valley Voices
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Our podcast features the outrageous, funny and heartwarming true stories told by your friends and neighbors at Valley Voices Story Slam events throughout western Massachusetts. Valley Voices Story Slam is presented by New England Public Media and the Academy of Music Theatre.MORE Host Vanessa Cerillo
Producer/Network Vanessa Cerillo
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Apple Rating 4.9/5Facebook 17.7KTwitter 6.7KInstagram 10K Avg Length 12 min Format Short form Get Email Contact
4. Jazz Beat
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Jazz Beat is a jazz and blues podcast from New England Public Media's Tom Reney. Tom was honored by the Jazz Journalists Association with the Willis Conover-Marian McPartland Award for Career Excellence in Broadcasting in 2019. In addition to hosting Jazz à la Mode since 1984, Tom writes the jazz blog and produces the Jazz Beat podcast at NEPM. He began working in jazz radio in 1977 at WCUW, a community-licensed radio station in Worcester, Massachusetts. Tom holds a BA from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, where he majored in English and African American Studies.MORE Producer/Network Tom Reney
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Apple Rating 4.5/5 Avg Length 46 min Format Long form Get Email Contact
5. The Short List
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From New England Public Media, a rotating panel of journalists from western New England discuss the big stories of the week.
Producer/Network Adam Frenier
Email ****@nepm.org
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Apple Rating 5/5Facebook 17.7KTwitter 6.7KInstagram 10K Get Email Contact
NEPR shows hosts and producers
| Podcaster Name | Podcast Link | Total Episodes | Twitter Handle | |
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| Emily Brewster | digital.nepr.net/podcasthub/word-matters/?preview=true | |||
| Ammon Shea | digital.nepr.net/podcasthub/word-matters/?preview=true | @ammonshea | ||
| Peter Sokolowski | digital.nepr.net/podcasthub/word-matters/?preview=true | @petersokolowski | ||
| Vanessa Cerillo | nepm.org/podcast/valley-voices | 15 | ||
| Carrie Healy | nepm.org/regional-news/2025-04-29/massachusetts-hits-a-solar-milestone-but-can-the-grid-handle-the-heat | 48 | @nepublicmedia | |
| Tom Reney | nepm.org/podcasts-projects/2018-05-25/jazz-beat-42-charles-neville | 20 | ||
| Adam Frenier | nepm.org/regional-news/2021-03-26/certainly-been-some-drawbacks-but-improvement-seen-in-vaccine-rollout-in-massachusetts | 18 | @nepublicmedia | |
| Michael Lyle Jr. | nepm.org/regional-news/2021-03-19/if-you-live-in-skin-that-isnt-white-there-is-no-surprise-to-visible-and-deadly-aggressions | 2 | @nepublicmedia | |
| Sam Hudzik | nepm.org/regional-news/2024-07-01/once-again-massachusetts-begins-a-new-fiscal-year-with-no-budget-deal-in-place | 2 | @nepublicmedia |