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This is Fresh Air, I'm Terry Gross. With me is Dave Davies, who you know is a

longtime interviewer on Fresh Air. Today, he's here as my guest. He's the interviewee. Here's why. Dave has been an indispensable member of

our team for many years. The last few months have been a period of transition for

Dave, having fulfilled his wish to cut back from a couple of interviews a week. of even if it is only occasional. Before the year ends, we want to pay tribute to him

and ask him to share some stories from his broadcasting

and newspaper career.

I've known Dave since 1983,

when he joined W HY's newsroom covering city politics.

From there he moved to the commercial all news Philly radio station and then to the newspaper

world covering city and state politics and government for the Philadelphia Daily News,

where he worked for 20 years and became one of Philly's preeminent city news reporters.

In 2010, he returned to W. HY.Y.

Full-time splitting his position between the news department and fresh air.

But he'd started doing interviews on our show back in 2001, even before his official returned to radio.

Dave has also been my savior when I got a bad cold and lost my voice,

when a family member was sick and needed my help, when I needed a vacation,

Dave was there to guest host, when I or anyone on the show needs advice about an especially

perplexing question relating to journalistic ethics,

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