NPR's Susan Stamberg to Discuss Life as Cultural Reporter

NPR'S SUSAN STAMBERG TO DISCUSS LIFE AS A CULTURAL REPORTER

COLUMBUS -- Award-winning National Public Radio Special 
Correspondent Susan Stamberg will give a free, public talk titled 
"Considering All Things: My Life as a Cultural Reporter" at 7:45 
p.m. Thursday, May 14 at The Athenaeum, 32 N. Fourth St.

The evening with Stamberg, also the author of two books and 
co-editor of a third, is co-sponsored by The Ohio State 
University College of Humanities, the Ohio Humanities Council and 
media co-sponsor WOSU.  A book-signing and reception will follow 
the speech.

Stamberg was the first woman to anchor a national nightly 
news program.  She co-hosted NPR's award-winning newsmagazine 
"All Things Considered" for 14 years, and then hosted NPR's 
"Weekend Edition/Sunday" morning newsmagazine from its premiere 
in January 1987 through October 1989.  She now is substitute host 
of NPR's "Weekend Edition/Saturday" and reports on cultural 
issues for all NPR newsmagazines.

Known for her conversational style, intelligence and knack 
for finding an interesting story, Stamberg has been praised for 
her fresh, friendly and down-to-earth interviewing.  Her 
thousands of interviews include conversations with Nancy Reagan, 
Annie Liebowitz, Rosa Parks, Dave Brubeck and James Baldwin.

One of the pioneers of National Public Radio, Stamberg has 
served on its staff since the network began in 1971.  Before 
joining NPR, she served as producer, program director and general 
manager of NPR member station WAMU-FM/Washington, D.C.

Stamberg's most recent book, TALK: NPR's Susan Stamberg 
Considers All Things, published in 1993, chronicles her two 
decades with NPR.  Her first book, Every Night at Five: Susan 
Stamberg's All Things Considered Book, was published in 1982.  
Stamberg also co-edited The Wedding Cake in the Middle of the 
Road (1992), a collection that grew out of a series of stories 
she commissioned for "Weekend Edition/Sunday."

Stamberg was inducted into the Broadcasting and Cable Hall 
of Fame in New York City in 1994 and into the Radio Hall of Fame 
in Chicago in 1996.  Other recognition includes the Edward R. 
Murrow Award from the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, The 
Ohio State University's Golden Anniversary Director's Award and 
the Distinguished Broadcaster Award from the American Women in 
Radio and Television.  She also received a Jefferson Fellowship 
for Journalism from the East-West Center in Hawaii.

A native of New York City, Stamberg earned a bachelor's 
degree from Barnard College and has been awarded numerous 
honorary degrees, including a Doctor of Humane Letters from 
Dartmouth College.  She is a Fellow of Silliman College, Yale 
University, and serves on the boards of the PEN/Faulkner
Fiction Award Foundation and Northwestern University's Medill 
School National Arts Journalism program.  She has hosted a number 
of series on PBS and has served as commentator, guest or co-host 
on various commercial television programs.

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Contact:  Shari Lorbach, College of Humanities, 292-1882.