Susan Stamberg, pioneering broadcaster at NPR, dies at 87
Susan Stamberg, a “founding mother” of NPR who joined the network in its infancy and helped blaze a trail for women in journalism, becoming the first female anchor of a national nightly news program in the United States, died Oct. 16. She was 87 and had retired in September.
Her death was announced by NPR, which did not say where or how she died.
Ms. Stamberg arrived at NPR just as the network was going on the air in 1971. At the time, broadcasting was an overwhelmingly male profession; in her first job at NPR, she was tasked with cutting audiotape with a razor blade. But she quickly rose to become a producer and an anchor, serving as a host of the network’s flagship news program, “All Things Considered,” from 1972 to 1986.
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