{"podcast":{"title":"MPR News with Angela Davis","slug":"mpr-news-with-angela-davis-239489","podcast_index_feed_id":239489,"rss_url":"https://feeds.publicradio.org/public_feeds/mpr-news-with-angela-davis","website_url":"https://www.mprnews.org/topic/angela-davis","image_url":"https://img.apmcdn.org/4c1a409ffb901a63f6d5f1542c2d6798f0ca559f/square/fcc246-20241021-angela-davis-mpr-news-podcast-2000.jpg","author":"Minnesota Public Radio","episode_count":200,"summary":"Conversations about life in Minnesota and how the state is changing, weekdays from MPR News. Programming note: Our colleague Angela Davis is taking a leave of absence after a recent breast cancer diagnosis. Thank you to all who have checked in and shared kind words. Angela is touched by your support as she focuses on her recovery.","last_synced_at":"2026-07-23T04:20:58.464378+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/mpr-news-with-angela-davis-239489"},"episode":{"title":"Why Americans are reading less — and how to pull out of the reading slump","slug":"why-americans-are-reading-less-and-how-to-pull-out-of-the-reading-slump","published_at":"2026-07-21T14:00:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/mpr-news-with-angela-davis-239489/why-americans-are-reading-less-and-how-to-pull-out-of-the-reading-slump","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/mpr-news-with-angela-davis-239489","url":"https://www.mprnews.org/episode/2026/07/21/why-americans-are-reading-less-and-how-to-pull-out-of-the-reading-slump","audio_url":"https://pscrb.fm/rss/p/mgln.ai/e/5/dts.podtrac.com/redirect.mp3/play.publicradio.org/podcast/o/minnesota/podcasts/angela-davis/2026/07/21/The_reading_slump__Why_Americans_are_reading_less_20260721_64.mp3?awCollectionId=apm-ADavis&awEpisodeId=01KY00C41RJJZPQPQGFE6W0C44","summary":"When was the last time you read a book or magazine, or listened to an audiobook? Overall, Americans are reading less. A study last year from the University of Florida and University College London found the portion of people who read daily for pleasure in the U.S. fell from 28 percent in 2004 to 16 percent in 2023. And, according to the National Endowment for the Arts, fewer than half of all adults said they read a book of any kind in 2022 — even fewer said they read a novel. MPR News guest host Kerri Miller talks about what’s behind the decline in reading, and why some people are saying that it points to a fundamental shift that has consequences for how we entertain ourselves, learn and think.","meta_description":"When was the last time you read a book or magazine, or listened to an audiobook? Overall, Americans are reading less. A study last year from the Universit…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":2762,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/mpr-news-with-angela-davis-239489/episodes/why-americans-are-reading-less-and-how-to-pull-out-of-the-reading-slump/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/mpr-news-with-angela-davis-239489/why-americans-are-reading-less-and-how-to-pull-out-of-the-reading-slump.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}