Welcome to Essential Public Media

Essential Public Media is an independent and innovative listener-supported public media organization. We give voice to provocative ideas, fostering an increasingly vibrant, informed, diverse and caring community. Essential Public Media is Pittsburgh's only independent public radio news and information station.

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Press Releases

• Osei Chandler and Charlie G. Sanders are Newest Hosts on JazzWorks
• Host Named for Essential Pittsburgh (December 8, 2011)
• Essential Public Radio Signal On The Mend (November 17, 2011)
• Charlie Humphrey, B.J. Leber Join Essential Public Media Board of Directors (November 1, 2011)
• Essential Public Radio and WYEP End Fall Fundraising Campaigns with Positive Results (October 24, 2011)