We’ve got a Blink Book Review bonus today!
I read “Susan, Linda, Nina & Cokie” back in 2022 when it first came out. It’s worth a re-read now with the death this week of one of NPR’s “Founding Mothers,” Susan Stamberg.
I commend this book to anyone who has an interest in understanding the origin story of NPR and its local stations.
I’m a long-time NPR fan girl ever since I discovered WAMU, the NPR affiliate in DC, when I was a young Hill staffer in the mid 1980s. At that point I never dreamed I’d have the chance to work for our own public radio network in SC – something I’ve now gotten to do twice!!
Little did I know as I tuned in to Morning Edition and All Things Considered on my daily DC commute that I was listening to history being made – and I don’t mean just the history these four journalists reported on. This book is their history, and the author does a beautiful job to parallel these journalists’ individual stories and struggles with the historic events in their news reporting.
Read the full review here to learn more about Stamberg and her fellow “mothers.”