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Susan Stamberg, pioneering broadcaster at NPR, dies at 87
- Susan Stamberg, a `founding mother` of National Public Radio and the first woman to anchor a nightly national news program, died Thursday, NPR reported without giving a cause.
- She joined NPR at its founding as an audio editor who cut tape and later became co-host of All Things Considered, coining `founding mother` with Cokie Roberts, Nina Totenberg and Linda Wertheimer.
- She hosted All Things Considered and later Weekend Edition Sunday, where she helped launch the Sunday puzzle with Will Shortz and invited the Car Talk brothers.
- She retired just six weeks ago and had been honored with a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame and inductions into the Broadcasting Hall of Fame and the National Radio Hall of Fame.
- Stamberg's relaxed style and quirky cultural pieces, including a mother‑in‑law's cranberry sauce recipe, shaped NPR's evolving sound and highlighted barriers women broadcasters faced.
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'Founding Mother' of NPR Dead at 87
Susan Stamberg, a pioneering voice at NPR and the first woman to anchor a national evening news broadcast in the US, has died at age 87. Her death was announced by NPR , which did not specify a location or cause, but which did note that "few figures have informed the...
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Illinois Newsroom - Susan Stamberg, an original National Public Radio staffer who went on to become the first U.S. woman to anchor a nightly national news program, died Thursday at the age of 87. The post NPR ‘founding mother’ Susan Stamberg has died appeared first on IPM Newsroom.
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