Newspaper services

There are two services that provide access to South Dakota newspapers: Radio Talking Book and Telephone Newspaper

Radio Talking Book is a cooperative program between the South Dakota Braille & Talking Book Library, Services to the Blind and Visually Impaired and South Dakota Public Radio. This program provides a twenty-four hour, seven days a week radio network for blind individuals. The network broadcasts readings from books, newspapers and magazines as well as interviews with government and business leaders on issues of interest to blind persons.

For a number of years the South Dakota Braille and Talking Book Library has been providing newspaper programs for South Dakota listeners. Monday through Friday at 11:00 A.M. you can listen to articles from the Sioux Falls Argus Leader. At 11:30 A.M. you can listen to the Rapid City Journal. These are both broadcast by volunteers live from the South Dakota Braille and Talking Book Library in Pierre, South Dakota.

At 1:00 P.M. you can listen to the Yankton Daily Press and Dakotan and at 1:30 P.M. to the Aberdeen American News. These two newspapers are being broadcast from studios located at the Federal Prison Camp in Yankton, South Dakota. The readers are Federal Prison Camp inmates.

This service, including the radio receiver needed to listen to Radio Talking Book, is provided at no cost to the individual.