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We still need 3,300 donations to reach our 10,000 donation goal by tomorrow night. Your gift today will help get us there [View this email in a browser]( [Meet the Challenge!]( Dear Listener, Six years before I started working at WNYC, [I became a member](. But my public radio origin story starts earlier than that. To help cover tuition and my basic living expenses when I was a journalism grad student at Ohio State, I was lucky enough to get a part-time job in the news department at WOSU, the local NPR affiliate owned by the university. As a young journalist--and an All Things Considered listener--I was thrilled. A few years later, I had returned home to New York and was working as an anchor and reporter at the NBC Radio Network. And though I was working in commercial radio, I was getting more of my news (and music!) from WNYC. The depth, the breadth, the curiosity, the creative use of audio were all on another level. I may have been working in commercial radio, but I was a public radio junkie. [That’s why I made that leap from listener to member, and why I have been so passionate about helping public media thrive since I got the opportunity to work here](. Why do I share this story with you now? Because I know I am not alone in being deeply committed to WNYC and public media. What gives public media its strength is the community around it: the people like you who listen and support all the reporting you depend on. It’s the next to last day of WNYC’s Spring Pledge Drive, and there’s not much time left for us to meet our goal of having 10,000 people to donate before this wraps up tomorrow . We still need 3,300 people to donate if we are going to secure the 10,000 donations we need. [Will you be one of them]( [HELP US MEET THE GOAL]( [Support from listeners is central to WNYC’s ability to bring our community independent, commercial-free reporting that you depend on. That’s especially important right now, when there is so much happening in the world and with the presidential election heating up. Your donation today will ensure that we can cover it all.]( Thank you for all you do, Brian Lehrer Host, The Brian Lehrer Show Want to change how you receive these emails? You can update your [PREFERENCES or UNSUBSCRIBE]( from this list. [View this email]( in a browser. [WNYC]( [WQXR]( [NJPR]( [GOTHAMIST]( [WNYC STUDIOS]( [THE GREENE SPACE]( Copyright © New York Public Radio 160 Varick Street, New York, NY 10013 All rights reservedz [Terms of Use]( and [Privacy Policy](