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Author: Lisa Napoli

Lisa Napoli
  • History of public media

    Drive to survive: The ‘brightest and darkest time’ at NPR  

    Forty years ago, NPR was facing another financial challenge — one that threatened its very existence.
    By Lisa Napoli, Author, "Susan, Linda, Nina & Cokie: The Extraordinary Story of the Founding Mothers of NPR"
    March 27, 2023
  • History of public media

    How digging through archives brought the story of NPR’s ‘Founding Mothers’ to life

    "Writing a biography of a person or place, much less four people and a place as storied as NPR, is not for ...
    By Lisa Napoli, Author, "Susan, Linda, Nina & Cokie: The Extraordinary Story of the Founding Mothers of NPR"
    January 21, 2022
  • System/Policy

    How Susan, Linda, Nina and Cokie became NPR’s ‘Founding Mothers’

    In an excerpt from her new book, author Lisa Napoli examines the collective power of female journalists who helped make NPR what ...
    By Lisa Napoli, Author, "Susan, Linda, Nina & Cokie: The Extraordinary Story of the Founding Mothers of NPR"
    April 13, 2021
  • People

    How Lisa Napoli found herself writing a book about Joan Kroc

    The public radio reporter tells the back story behind her new biography about the McDonald’s heiress and NPR benefactor.
    By Lisa Napoli, Author, "Susan, Linda, Nina & Cokie: The Extraordinary Story of the Founding Mothers of NPR"
    November 8, 2016

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