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Vivian Schiller: The Future of NPR

Vivian Schiller

February 20, 2009

National Public Radio (NPR) President and CEO Vivian Schiller, on a special visit to Public Broadcasting Atlanta's (PBA) studios, gives a sneak peek into her strategy for the future direction of the network. PBA President Milton Clipper and General Manager John Weatherford provide introductions.

August 30, 2007

Ken Stern, NPR's CEO, addresses and updates a group of Atlanta supporters. Ken Stern joined NPR as executive vice president in 1999 and became CEO in October, 2006. Since then, NPR has doubled its audience from 13 million to 26 million weekly listeners.

Future of Islam

Ali Allawi, former Minister of Defense and Minister of Finance in the Iraqi Transitional Government, discusses his new book, The Crisis of Islamic Civilization, with National Public Radio correspondent Corey Flintoff.

Hillary Clinton: Ameliorating and Eliminating Poverty

Hillary Rodham Clinton

National Public Radio Senior Correspondent Juan Williams moderates a conversation with Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton.

Kai Ryssdal: Anatomy of Marketplace

October 6, 2005

Kai Ryssdal, host of Public Radio International's Marketplace, describes how stories are chosen for the program, what changes are coming in the program's future, and what's happening in the world of business.

Kai Ryssdal: Inside NPR's Marketplace

Kai Ryssdal discusses the business and financial program Marketplace and what's happening in the world of business.

Kevin Klose: Next Generation of NPR

September 9, 2008

National Public Radio President Kevin Klose speaks to a group of supporters at Public Broadcasting Atlanta studios. He talks about NPR's achievements and goals, and also describes some of its challenges, like harnessing new technology in broadcasting, podcasting, and the Web.

NPR's Carl Kasell: The Man, The Magician

November 20, 2008

National Public Radio newsman and judge of NPR's Wait Wait... Don't Tell Me!, regales Public Broadcasting Atlanta (PBA) supporters with insight, stories and even a bit of magic.

NPR's Linda Wertheimer and New WABE Staff

Linda Wertheimer

Veteran National Public Radio (NPR) correspondent Linda Wertheimer, and 90.1/WABE-FM's Denis O'Hayer and John Lemley discuss issues of the day in this Public Broadcasting Atlanta (PBA) event at the Altanta Botanical Garden. PBA General Manager John Weatherford introduces the event.

Renee Montagne: Producing Morning Edition

Renée Montagne

December 10, 2004

Renee Montagne relates her experiences as a journalist for National Public Radio and what it takes to produce Morning Edition.

Robert Seigel: All Things Considered

December 5, 2005

Robert Siegel, senior host of NPR's award-winning evening news magazine All Things Considered, discusses his thirty years with NPR covering the new events that have shaped and impact his life and the lives of the millions who listen each week.

Roy Blount Jr: Alphabet Juice

November 21, 2008

Roy Blount Jr. discusses his Alphabet Juice book, which celebrates “the juju of language”, the sonic and kinetic energies of words, and an exploration of our language. He uses sources as venerable as the Oxford English Dictionary and as hip as UrbanDictionary.com.

Roy Blount Jr: Dispatches From Up South

Roy Blount Jr. discusses his new collection of essays, Long Time Leaving: Dispatches From Up South, a sly, dry, hilarious look at his own dueling loyalties across the great North/South divide.

StoryCorps: Listening is an Act of Love

Dave Isay, founder of Sound Portraits Productions, describes the genesis of the StoryCorps oral history project, its progress and plans for expansion at the opening of the Atlanta Story Corps booth.

Austin City Limits: Musical Boundaries on Public TV

Tracey E.W. Laird

January 24, 2007

Tracey Laird, associate professor of music and author of the book Louisiana Hayride: Radio and Roots Music along the Red River, moves her studies farther west for her lecture on Austin City Limits.

David Brown: Marketplace's Renaissance Man

November 19, 2004

David Brown discusses his experiences as a journalist, world economics, and the complexities of producing a business news magazine like Public Radio International's Marketplace.

Juan Williams: Enough

October 2, 2006

Host of the book review show Between the Lines, Valerie Jackson and Juan Williams discuss his involvement with Eyes on the Prize and his new book Enough: The Phony Leaders, Dead End Movements, and Culture of Failure that are Undermining Black America and What We Can Do About it.

Charles E. Cobb Jr.: On the Road to Freedom

Charles E. Cobb Jr.

February 19, 2008

Charles E. Cobb Jr., a prominent black journalist and reporter for NPR and PBS' Frontline, discusses On the Road to Freedom: A Guided Tour of the Civil Rights Trail. The book is a guide to over 400 historic sites in America linked to the Civil Right Movement.

Callie House: My Face is Black is True

Mary Frances Berry

September 14, 2005

Mary Francis Berry reclaims Callie House, a magnificent heroine who, though so long forgotten that the site of her grave is unknown, emerges as a pioneering activist: a female forerunner of both Malcolm X and Martin Luther King Jr.

Cokie Roberts: Ladies of Liberty

Cokie Roberts reveals the stories of determined and passionate women, including Rebecca Gratz, Dolley Madison, Theodosia Burr, and Sacajawea.

Pontoon: A Lake Wobegon Story

Garrison Keillor

September 17, 2007

Author Garrison Keillor shares his latest Lake Wobegon novel. Set in the iconic Midwestern small town, "a place where the women are strong, the men are good looking, and all the children are above average", Pontoon is a story about a woman with a secret.

The Centennial of Martha Gellhorn

Caroline Moorehead

November 9, 2008

Caroline Moorehead and war correspondent turned novelist Ward Just (2005 Pulitzer Prize finalist) pay tribute to the groundbreaking career of journalist and writer, Martha Gellhorn, with NPR special correspondent Susan Stamberg.

After Kennedy: Reflections on the 20th Century

Daniel Schorr, Anthony Lewis, and Jill Ker Conway reflect on the 20th century and the changes that have shaped and changed our nation and the world since President Kennedy's death. Scott Simon, host of NPR's Weekend Edition Saturday, moderates.

Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln

Doris Kearns Goodwin

December 18, 2005

Pulitzer Prize-winning biographer Doris Kearns Goodwin explains how the one-term congressman and prairie lawyer rose from obscurity to become one of the most significant presidents in this nation's hi

Naked in Baghdad: Covering the War in Iraq

September 29, 2003

Anne Garrels discusses her experiences in Baghdad which she has chronicled in a new book, Naked in Baghdad. Garrels is a roving foreign correspondent for NPR's foreign desk.

Tribute to August Wilson

January 15, 2007

Charles Dutton and Dwight Andrews pay tribute to August Wilson, the Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright who passed away in October 2005. Wilson's cycle of 10 prize-winning plays chronicles the lives of African Americans throughout the 20th century.

Standing Up to the Madness: Ordinary Heroes in Extraordinary Times I

Amy Goodman, host of Democracy Now! and an award winning journalist, discusses her new book, Standing Up to the Madness: Ordinary Heroes in Extraordinary Times.

Standing Up to the Madness: Ordinary Heroes in Extraordinary Times II

Amy Goodman, host of Democracy Now! and an award winning journalist, discusses her new book, Standing Up to the Madness: Ordinary Heroes in Extraordinary Times, and takes que

Frank McCourt on Teaching in NYC

Frank McCourt, the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Angela's Ashes and 'Tis, discusses his 45 year career as a high school English teacher in New York City with Scott Simon, the host of NPR's Weekend Edition Saturday.

Bush, Foreign Policy and Religion: European Perspective

Sylvia Poggioli

Sylvia Poggioli, NPR's senior European correspondent, engages in a conversation with WBUR's Dick Gordon on how Europeans perceive President Bush, US foreign policy, and the crisis in the American Catholic Church.

Louis P. and Evelyn Smith First Amendment Award

December 1, 2006

Cokie Roberts, Nina Totenberg, and Linda Wertheimer receive the Ford Hall Forum's Louis P.

US Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer: Judicial Issues Today

September 28, 2003

Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer engages in a discussion with NPR chief legal correspondent Nina Totenberg concerning the judicial issues facing the country today.

Crisis in Darfur

Jennifer Leaning

December 9, 2004

Jennifer Leaning of the Harvard School of Public Health, Eric Reeves of Smith College, Alex de Waal of the Global Equity Initiative at Harvard, and William Schulz of Amnesty International discuss the crisis in Darfur. Gail Harris, a journalist for both NPR and PBS, moderates their discussion.

The Art of Political Cartoons

October 24, 2004

Cartoonists Mike Peters of The Dayton Daily News, Mike Luckovitch of The Atlanta Journal Constitution, and Dan Wasserman of The Boston Globe, present a show-and-tell about their craft. Scott Simon, host of NPR's Weekend Edition Saturday, moderates.

Tim Russert on Covering Politics

February 15, 2005

Tim Russert, host of NBC's Meet the Press, shares insights from his 20 years in broadcast journalism covering politics. NPR senior national correspondent Linda Wertheimer moderates the conversation.

White House Photographers

December 17, 2002

National Public Radio Special Correspondent Susan Stamberg moderates this slide presentation and conversation with a number of official White House photographers who covered the Presidents, their families, and their administrations.

Irene Pepperberg and the Hidden World of Animal Intelligence

Irene Pepperberg

National Public Radio host Robin Young interviews Alex & Me author Dr. Irene Pepperberg, who has been studying the intelligence and reasoning abilities of the African gray parrot for more than 30 years.

When Doctors Are Writers

Elissa Ely and Tess Gerritsen talk about how writing affects their medical practice, and vice versa.

Eric Weiner: Geography of Bliss

National Public Radio correspondent Eric Weiner discusses his latest book, The Geography of Bliss, which he describes as a philosophical self-help humorous travel memoir. The story weaves travel, international intrigue, humor and self discovery.

Stories from the Heart of the Land

National Public Radio producer Jay Allison presents Stories from the Heart of the Land, a six-part radio series that ranges across the world—from Australia to Newfoundland, Mexico to Tibet—to capture the human connection to land and landscape.