Story Archives of 'Radio'

The co-host of NPR’s On the Media joins us. Her program’s mission is to lift the veil on how news and other media are made, and offer frank and honest critiques. We’ll talk with Brooke about that – especially when it comes to presidential politics - and the ongoing clash among media and the candidates over “who shapes the message."

Guest

• Brooke Gladstone, cohost and Managing Editor of National Public Radio’s On The Media

As the Vice President of News for NPR, Ellen Weiss oversees 18 domestic bureaus, 18 foreign bureaus, over 400 staff members and more than 50 hours of news programming each week. Before being named to the post in April, she headed the NPR News National Desk and worked as Executive Producer for All Things Considered. Today she joins us to talk about the NPR news process and answer your calls and emails.

Guest

• Ellen Weiss, Vice President for News for National Public Radio

Tonight on the Front Porch, we're talking books, radio, and television with Ira Glass. Public Radio listeners know him as the host of This American Life. Even though he's one of the biggest advocates for radio you'll ever meet, he's recently branched out into the world of television. We'll talk with him about the transition from one medium to the other, and his new book -- a collection of non-fiction by some of his favorite writers. It's called The New Kings of Nonfiction.

Ira Glass is giving a presentation at Plymouth State College's Silver Center for the Arts tomorrow (Saturday, 10/13) at 8 p.m. Click here for more details.

Award-winning radio documentary producer David Isay has been telling stories with sound for two decades. He founded StoryCorps two years ago, with the idea of sending two mobile recording studios all across the country, collecting stories of everyday people. Now, StoryCorps is coming to New Hampshire and will be parked outside the State House in Concord starting July 5th. We’ll talk with Isay about his long career in radio, what the StoryCorps project is all about, and how much the art of telling stories with sound has changed in the last twenty years.

Guest

• David Isay, founder of StoryCorps and its parent company, Sound Portraits.

Robin Young brings over 25 years of eclectic broadcast experience to her role as host of Here and Now. She is both a Peabody Award winning documentary filmmaker and the past host of a cooking game show. She's been a correspondent for the Discovery Channel, CBS, ABC, and for several years was substitute host and correspondent for the TODAY show on NBC. Robin may be best known to the Boston audience for her part in launching the popular Evening Magazine on WBZ-TV in the mid-70s, and for her television profiles on WNEV-TV in the mid-80's. For the past decade she's also been producing and directing documentaries, including the Los Altos Story, a groundbreaking look at the effect of AIDS on a Rotary Club in California, which won both the George Foster Peabody and Cable Ace awards. She's won numerous industry awards, including 5 Emmy awards for reporting, hosting, and producing.

In this special public appearance at Philips Exeter Academy in Exeter, Robin talks about her career and what her world and life is like in her role as well as answering questions from the audience.