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| Ellen Weiss, [currrent] executive producer of ATC, believes this to be the telling hallmark of the program…
“What defines the show is the variety of reports and features you hear every day,” Weiss says. “There’s news, commentary, interviews, and humor…there’s variety in the places you go, the voices you hear, and the emotions evoked. Beyond being a solid news program, ATC is about what people can relate to personally.” |
| Reporting style and program format weren’t the only areas in which ATC charted new territory. Perhaps most notable was the strong presence of female voices, which many other networks at the time considered not professional enough for broadcast news. |
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In the second year of All Things Considered, Susan Stamberg became the first woman in the U.S. to anchor a national nightly news program.
Women were also featured prominently in subsequent broadcasts. During the Panama Canal Treaty debates in 1978, for the first time in history the U.S. Senate allowed a national network to broadcast live from the Senate floor. NPR sent Linda Wertheimer to anchor the ATC broadcast and provided live gavel-to-gavel coverage. Nina Totenberg and Cokie Roberts also joined the reporting staff and helped create a female force in network broadcast reporting. |
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| Within just two years of its debut, All Things Considered won its first awards. In 1973, the afternoon news program was honored with the prestigious Ohio State and George Foster Peabody Awards. It went on to earn the Alfred I. duPont-Columbia University Award, the Overseas Press Club Award, the Major Armstrong Award, the American Women in Radio and Television Award, the Robert F. Kennedy Award, and the Washington Journalism Review’s “Best in Business” Award. In 1993, ATC became the first public radio program to be inducted into the Radio Hall of Fame. |
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