Prime Time: A Conversation with NPR’s Susan Stamberg

Want to have lunch with Susan Stamberg, NPR's "Founding Mother"? Join the Broadcast Committee for a special Prime Time conversation about what makes radio relevant today.

This event will take place on Tuesday, August 9 in the McClendon Room on the 14th floor of the National Press Club. Lunch will begin at 11:45AM and the program will start at 12PM. Tickets are $18 and include a buffet lunch, iced tea, coffee service and tax/gratuity.

Special correspondent for NPR, Susan Stamberg is one of the most popular broadcasters in public radio. She has been on NPR's staff since the network began in 1971. She is the first woman to anchor a national nightly news program and has won every major award in broadcasting, including the Edward R. Murrow Award from the Corporation for Public Broadcasting and the Distinguished Broadcaster Award from the American Women in Radio and Television. She has been inducted into the Broadcasting Hall of Fame and the Radio Hall of Fame.

After graduating from Barnard College, Stamberg was a producer, program director, and general manager of NPR Member Station WAMU-FM. Beginning in 1972 she served as co-host of NPR’s All Things Considered for 14 years. She then hosted Weekend Edition Sunday, and now serves as guest host of NPR’s Morning Edition and Weekend Edition Saturday, as well as reporting on cultural issues for Morning Edition.

Her thousands of interviews include conversations with Rosa Parks, Dave Brubeck, and Luciano Pavarotti. Novelist E.L. Doctorow once called her “the closest thing to an enlightened humanist on the radio.”

Questions on the event should be emailed to Amy Henderson at [email protected].