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Nationally renowned broadcast journalist Susan Stamberg is a special correspondent for NPR.
Stamberg is the first woman to anchor a national nightly news program, and has won every major award in broadcasting. She has been inducted into the Broadcasting Hall of Fame and the Radio Hall of Fame. An NPR founding mother, Stamberg has been on staff since the network began in 1971.
Beginning in 1972, Stamberg served as co-host of NPR s award-winning newsmagazine
All Things Considered for 14 years. She then hosted
Weekend Edition Sunday, and now reports on cultural issues for
Morning Edition and
Weekend Edition Saturday.
One of the most popular broadcasters in public radio, Stamberg is well known for her conversational style, intelligence, and knack for finding an interesting story. Her interviewing has been called fresh, friendly, down-to-earth, and (by novelist E.L. Doctorow) the closest thing to an enlightened humanist on the radio. Her thousands of interviews include