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Code Switch was launched in 2013 with a $1.5 million grant from the [[Corporation for Public Broadcasting]]; it developed as a blog and contributed stories to a variety of NPR programs.<ref>{{cite news|last1=Grinapol|first1=Corinne|title=NPR’s Code Switch Podcast Is Debuting at the End of the Month|url=http://www.adweek.com/fishbowldc/nprs-code-switch-podcast-is-debuting-at-the-end-of-the-month/156042|accessdate=4 August 2016|work=FishbowlDC|date=May 10, 2016}}</ref> [[Harvard University|Harvard]]'s [[Neiman Lab]] describes the project as "designed to increase coverage of race issues and reach out to new audiences" at NPR and affiliated media outlets.<ref name=":0">{{cite news|last1=Ellis|first1=Justin|title=Monday Q&A: NPR’s Matt Thompson on Code Switch, covering race and culture, and developing a mobile audience|url=http://www.niemanlab.org/2013/05/monday-qa-nprs-matt-thompson-on-code-switch-covering-race-and-culture-and-developing-a-mobile-audience/|accessdate=25 August 2016|work=Neiman Lab|date=May 13, 2013}}</ref>

The blog began publishing on April 7, 2013 with [[Gene Demby]]'s introductory essay "How Code-Switching Explains The World".<ref>{{cite web|url=httphttps://www.npr.org/sections/codeswitch/2013/04/08/176064688/how-code-switching-explains-the-world|title=How Code-Switching Explains The World|last=Demby|first=Gene|work=Code Switch|publisher=NPR|date=8 April 2013|accessdate=5 September 2016}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news|url=http://www.complex.com/pop-culture/2013/04/npr-launches-new-blog-covering-race-culture-and-ethnicity|title=NPR Launches New Blog Covering "Race, Culture and Ethnicity"|last=Parham|first=Jason|date=April 8, 2013|work=Complex|access-date=August 4, 2016|via=}}</ref>

The outlet's name refers to the linguistic phenomenon of [[code-switching]], when speaker moves between multiple languages or dialectics. Demby's introductory essay said the project construed the concept broadly, with the linguistic concept also serving as means of analyzing aspects of race and culture in identity: "Many of us subtly, reflexively change the way we express ourselves all the time. We're hop-scotching between different cultural and linguistic spaces and different parts of our own identities—sometimes within a single interaction."<ref>{{cite news|last1=G.|first1=R.L.|title=How black to be?|url=https://www.economist.com/blogs/johnson/2013/04/code-switching|accessdate=25 August 2016|work=The Economist|date=April 10, 2013}}</ref>