Who or What is Capitol News Connection?
Capitol News Connection (CNC) brings politics “home” to public radio listeners nationwide with coverage of Congress made relevant to local listening audiences. Former Speaker Tip O’Neill was right when he said “all politics is local”. CNC was founded on the basis that people would take more of an interest in their democracy if we could find a way to tell the political story in a way that was relevant to people’s daily lives. What does it mean to me? Why should I care? The CNC mission is to ensure voters are engaged and lawmakers are accountable towards an informed democracy. It launched in July 2003 with a small grant from the Corporation for Public Broadcasting that funded three reporters, three microphones and three laptops. In just four years it has grown to serve 200+ stations with exclusive news reports, features, live interviews and documentary short pieces all custom-crafted for local audiences. It has won several prestigious national awards including the Joan S. Barone Award fo
