Overview

• NPR announced Thursday that Susan Stamberg died at 87, one month after she retired from the network.
• She joined NPR in 1971 and the next year became co-host of All Things Considered, the first woman to anchor a national nightly news broadcast.
• NPR CEO Katherine Maher praised her as a voice that was a cornerstone of American life in a statement marking her death.
• She was regarded as one of NPR’s “founding mothers” and earned induction into the Broadcast and Radio Halls of Fame as well as a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.
• Before NPR, she moved from typist at The New Republic to producer and later PD and GM at WAMU, a path she described as learning to never take no for an answer.