Transcripts for NPR and WHYY's Fresh Air

From LexisNexis Wiki several months back:

In the past, one would use the Burrelle's Transcripts source in LexisNexis Academic to find transcripts of Fresh Air. You may still use this source to find the archived episodes before October, 2008. However, after October 1, 2008, Fresh Air is now contained inside of the "National Public Radio (NPR)" source. To read transcripts of Fresh Air or transcripts of other NPR shows that were broadcast on or after October 1, 2008, use the "National Public Radio (NPR)" source to narrow your search.

Speaking of NPR, it started a new blog (it has many) in November of last year called As a Matter of Fact.

In its own words:

As A Matter of Fact is a blog by and for the audio-loving, fact-finding, truth-seeking, pop-culture-fiending, news-addicted librarians of the world. Of course, you don't need to be a librarian to read it. But we're pretty sure you may secretly want to be one after you do.

NPR Transcripts

As part of National Public Radio's site relaunch in July came a new free-text policy for transcripts. More than 80,000 transcripts are now available going back to May 2005 (they used to charge for them). Observes Susanne Bjorner, writing in The CyberSkeptics Guide to Internet Research (October 2009), "NPR says that transcripts are 'largely accurate' but acknowledges that there may be some spelling or grammatical errors and that, in some cases the text may not align perfectly with the audio" Some random testing on her part "indicates that available transcripts are indexed by every word, making the backfile a major new free source for research in news, business, and culture."

NPR transcripts are also available at LexisNexis (see previous post) but you may want to go straight to the horse's mouth from now on.