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Anya Grundmann oversees NPR s industry-leading podcast portfolio with 150 million monthly global downloads, in addition to NPR Music, NPR Events and NPR s entertainment and talk radio programming. Under her transformational and creative leadership, NPR Music s Tiny Desk Concerts have become a household name in music discovery and the NPR Programming division has dramatically expanded NPR s on demand audience and journalism footprint with the launch of more than 15 podcasts and radio shows in collaboration with NPR News, including four of the top 20 podcasts in America.
Before becoming the head of NPR Programming in 2015, Grundmann was the founding Executive Director of NPR Music, a premiere award-winning source for music discovery and innovative multiplatform journalism that reaches more than 12 million people a month across npr.org, YouTube, podcasts and NPR radio programs. In 2013,
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