The headquarters of Nebraska Public Media on the University of Nebraska-Lincoln’s East Campus. (Courtesy of Nebraska Public Media)

BANCROFT, Neb. – Nebraska Public Media has been named the recipient of the Wordsender Award by the John G. Neihardt Foundation, the group announced this week.

It credited the public broadcaster based in Lincoln as “an essential beacon of news concerning the state’s literary figures, the arts and the humanities.”

NPM, previously known as Nebraska Educational Telecommunications, interviewed Neihardt, known for writing “Black Elk Speaks,” including by one of its best-known broadcasters, Ron Hull. Those discussions eventually led New York-based TV talk show host Dick Cavett to host Neihardt for a lengthier interview that Cavett — a Nebraska native — called one o

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