{"id":100906,"date":"2025-10-19T09:44:10","date_gmt":"2025-10-19T09:44:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/neclink.com\/index.php\/2025\/10\/19\/in-pictures-remembering-susan-stamberg-one-of-nprs-founding-mothers\/"},"modified":"2025-10-19T09:44:10","modified_gmt":"2025-10-19T09:44:10","slug":"in-pictures-remembering-susan-stamberg-one-of-nprs-founding-mothers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/neclink.com\/index.php\/2025\/10\/19\/in-pictures-remembering-susan-stamberg-one-of-nprs-founding-mothers\/","title":{"rendered":"In Pictures: Remembering Susan Stamberg, One of NPR&#8217;s Founding Mothers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>NPR \u2018founding mother\u2019 Susan Stamberg has died at the age of 87. Colleagues saw her as a yenta, a mentor and a storyteller who was always tough and true to herself. NPR\u2019s David Folkenflik\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2025\/10\/16\/1184880448\/susan-stamberg-obituary\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">pays tribute<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p>Susan Stamberg joined NPR at its start, originally to cut tape \u2014 literal tape, with a single-sided blade \u2014 at a time when commercial networks almost never hired women.<\/p>\n<p>Stamberg said NPR\u2019s first program director, Bill Siemering, was brave to put her behind the microphone. She hosted\u00a0<em>All Things Considered<\/em>\u00a0and\u00a0<em>Weekend Edition<\/em>, and then became a special correspondent.<\/p>\n<p>She found joy in the creativity of culture, the spark of science and even the humanity in politics.<\/p>\n<p>To this day, Susan Stamberg\u2019s recorded voice announces each floor on the elevators at NPR\u2019s headquarters in Washington, D.C.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/ww2.kqed.org\/news\/2025\/10\/18\/in-pictures-remembering-susan-stamberg-one-of-nprs-founding-mothers\/\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NPR \u2018founding mother\u2019 Susan Stamberg has died at the age of 87. Colleagues saw her as a yenta, a mentor and a storyteller who was<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":100907,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[154,183],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-100906","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-education","category-spotlight"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/neclink.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100906","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/neclink.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/neclink.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neclink.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neclink.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=100906"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/neclink.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100906\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neclink.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/100907"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/neclink.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=100906"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neclink.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=100906"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neclink.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=100906"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}