Lisa Napoli on the lessons from her new book 'The Extraordinary Story of the Founding Mothers of NPR'

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🗓️ 15 April 2021

⏱️ 46 minutes

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“Susan, Linda, Nina & Cokie: The Extraordinary Story of the Founding Mothers of NPR” is coming out to coincide with the fiftieth anniversary of NPR’s “All Things Considered.” Author Lisa Napoli joins Brian Stelter to discuss the public radio network’s experimental beginnings, as seen through the experiences of the four "founding mothers" — Susan Stamberg, Linda Wertheimer, Nina Totenberg and Cokie Roberts. What lessons can be gleaned from NPR's origin story, especially for newsrooms looking to improve how they represent the communities they cover? To learn more about how CNN protects listener privacy, visit cnn.com/privacy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Newsrooms across the country are reshaping themselves, installing new leaders, and thinking
0:08.2	about how they can better represent the communities they serve.
0:12.9	So with an eye toward that future, what can we learn from the past?
0:17.7	What was it like behind the scenes for some of America's founding mothers of the news
0:23.0	media?
0:25.2	Those are some of the questions for this week's Reliable Sources podcast, so let's
0:28.7	keep the music.
0:30.3	I'm Brian Stelter, and this is our weekly podcast edition of Reliable.
0:34.6	Our chance to go more in-depth with media leaders and newsmakers, talking about how the news
0:40.3	gets made.
0:42.3	NPR, National Public Radio, is one of the preeminent news organizations in the United States.
0:49.3	And my longtime friend and mentor Lisa Napoli is out with a brand new book about the founding
0:55.5	of NPR.
0:57.5	Through the eyes and the voices of four of the women who were there who were pioneers
1:03.8	of public radio.
1:05.8	I've known Lisa for almost 25 years.
1:08.7	She's helped me understand this media business.
1:12.3	She's worked at the New York Times and MSNBC and in public radio for marketplace, among other
1:17.6	roles.
1:18.6	And she's now carved out this really interesting spot, writing about media history.
1:24.6	Next year, she came out with a book about the founding of CNN titled Up All Night, Ted
1:29.4	Turner, CNN, and The Birth of 24 Hour News.
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