NPR News 91, along with other key public radio stations throughout
the nation, will debut a new NPR weekday radio newsmagazine at 11
a.m. Monday, July 28. Day to Day is a one-hour program conceived
by the creators of the leading morning and afternoon radio
newsmagazines Morning Edition and All Things Considered to serve
listeners in the middle of the day. The program is based at NPR’s
new west coast facility in Los Angeles and will be hosted by
principal NPR correspondent Alex Chadwick.
“Alex Chadwick is one of the finest broadcast journalists in the
country,” according to Boise State Radio General Manager, Jim
Paluzzi, who adds, “He has that rare ability to hear a story in
his head just like a radio listener would want to hear it: simple,
direct, and compelling. Then, Alex fuses the story with sound to
create audio ‘pictures’ that are far more provocative than
anything one could see on television. He has done this for years
in his Radio Expeditions reports. Now we can hear this unique
journalism every weekday.”
“Day to Day will give listeners NPR substance with a twist: smart,
funny, thoughtful, quirky material — a great break and refresher
in the middle of a busy day,” said Chadwick. “Listeners will hear
updates on key news, original stories and provocative ideas about
the attitudes and trends that shape our world.”
The program will deliver NPR news and information content in
shorter segments, with more stories in the hour, important news
updates, and intriguing features and commentaries. There will be
familiar voices from an array of NPR News correspondents and
commentators, as well as contributions from content partner Slate
Magazine, station-based reporters, independents and fresh new
voices.
Host Chadwick has spent more than two decades in a variety of
roles at NPR, both on and off the air. He is currently host and
chief writer for the award-winning series Radio Expeditions, about
the natural world and its different cultures, co-produced with the
National Geographic Society. Chadwick came to NPR in 1977 as host
and producer of NPR’s morning news service and has hosted and
prepared reports for public radio’s most listened to
newsmagazines, Morning Edition and All Things Considered, as well
as Weekend Edition. He has reported from Central and South
America, Europe, Africa and Asia. Chadwick recently earned the
Sigma Delta Chi Award for investigative reporting and has twice
won the Lowell Thomas Award for foreign reporting, along with an
Emmy, a Peabody, and the Robert F. Kennedy Award for reporting on
the disadvantaged.
NPR News 91 and the other launch stations will work with NPR to
provide listener comment and feedback that will shape and inform
the program over the summer months.
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Contact
Jim East
Boise Sate Radio
208 947-5659
jeast@boisestate.edu
Media Contact
Kathleen Craven
Boise State communications and marketing
208 426-3275
kcraven@boisestate.edu
This news release and a photo of Chadwick are available online
at
http://news.boisestate.edu
About NPR News 91
From Boise State University, NPR News 91 is a service of Boise
State Radio. NPR News 91 is heard on KBSX, 91.5 FM Boise; KBSY,
88.5 FM Burley; KBSJ, 91.3 FM Jackpot; and KBSQ, 90.7 FM McCall.
Boise State Radio includes NPR News 91, KBSU (Arts and Cultural
Programming) and Idaho’s Jazz Station. (http://radio.boisestate.edu)
About NPR
NPR is renowned for journalistic excellence and standard-setting
news and entertainment programming. A privately supported,
non-profit membership organization, NPR serves a growing audience
of nearly 21 million Americans each week via more than 730 public
radio stations. International partners in cable, satellite and
short-wave services make NPR programming accessible anywhere in
the world. With original online content and audio streaming,
npr.org offers hourly newscasts, special features and seven years
of archived audio and information. NPR’s several hundred awards
include a 2000 National Medal of Arts.
About Slate
Slate Magazine (www.slate.com),
founded by Michael Kinsley and published by Microsoft, is the No.
1 online magazine. Slate averages over 6 million unique readers
per month and provides an informed perspective on news, politics
and culture and is a member of the MSN network of Internet
services from Microsoft, which helps people to better organize the
Web around what is important to them. Slate is the 2003 recipient
of the American Society of Magazine Editors, General Excellence
Online award.
