WYSO is pleased to announce that Susan Stamberg, NPR Special Correspondent, will speak in Dayton on Friday June 29 at the Dayton Art Institute’s NCR Renaissance Auditorium at 7:30 pm. Click here to purchase tickets.
Stamberg, the first woman to anchor a national nightly news program in the United States, has been with NPR since the network began broadcasting in 1971. The following year she became the co-host of “All Things Considered,” NPR’s first daily news magazine.After serving as co-host for 14 years, she launched Weekend Edition Sunday for NPR.
Today she reports on cultural issues for all NPR programs and serves as an occasional host for Morning Edition and Weekend Edition Saturday.
In the last 20 years, Stamberg’s reporting focus has been cultural figures. Artists, actors and writers are often the subject of her work and she regularly features museum exhibitions. Her talk at DAI is titled: “How Art Will Save the World (And Whatever Else Occurs to Her).