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Culture My fleeting love affair with NPR’S Ophira Eisenberg
Editor’s note: Some nine years after its debut, NPR’s “Ask Me Another” has come to an end. In 2016, the Forward’s Talya Zax profiled Ophira Eisenberg, the show’s host. In honor of the show’s conclusion, we’ve republished that profile. Hectic strains of unidentifiable indie rock drift over the audience. Mostly white and mostly well-dressed, they…
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The Schmooze ‘It’s About Time’: Ruth Bader Ginsburg On #MeToo
“How dare you? How dare you do this?” Those were Supreme Court justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s words in response to the man who gave her her first ever “#MeToo” moment, requesting a sexual favor in exchange for information about an upcoming exam. He was her professor at Cornell, and she was an undergraduate student. As…
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Fast Forward NPR Journalists May Strike Amid Stalled Contract Talks
A strike by National Public Radio journalists is looming as contract talks are on the rocks, according to a report in the Hollywood Reporter. Negotiations are hung up over proposed cuts in union protections, according to the paper. NPR personalities have taken to Twitter to condemn management’s demands. Gather ‘round friends. Lemme tell u a…
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Culture LISTEN: A Yiddish Shtetl Song Got Revived On NPR
There’s a certain quality of sound particular to a waltz pattern picked out on a viola that never fails to inspire, in me, at least, some strange sense of longing for a shtetl life that I’ve not only never known, but intrinsically know to be undesirable. My ancestors left the shtetl, after all. It’s a…
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Fast Forward After 30 Years, Robert Siegel To Depart From NPR’s ‘All Things Considered’
Robert Siegel, who has been the host of NPR’s “All Things Considered” since 1987, will step down in January 2018, the public radio broadcaster announced this morning. Siegel, born in 1947, first joined NPR in 1976. “He joined NPR as a newscaster, moved into an editor role, opened NPR’s London bureau, and as chief of…
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Forward 50 2015 Sarah Koenig
By late fall 2014, you could count on one thing coming up in every conversation with anyone who might ever have listened to NPR: Sarah Koenig’s podcast “Serial.” From hours-long debates over the possible guilt of Adnan Syed — the convicted murderer who was the podcast’s subject — to parodies of the ad for MailChimp,…
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Fast Forward Jewish Groups Demand NPR Apology Over Bernie Sanders ‘Israeli’ Question
Jewish groups demanded an apology from radio host Diane Rehm for saying Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) has dual Israeli-American citizenship. “Such a statement is not only factually incorrect, but has no place in such an interview,” the Anti-Defamation League’s national director, Abraham Foxman, said in a letter Wednesday to National Public Radio. “It is deeply…
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