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Lisa Napoli

Rewind: The Roots of Public Media

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

By Lisa Napoli, Author, "Susan, Linda, Nina & Cokie: The Extraordinary Story of the Founding Mothers of NPR" | March 27, 2023

Forty years ago, NPR was facing another financial challenge — one that threatened its very existence.

History of public media

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

By Lisa Napoli, Author, "Susan, Linda, Nina & Cokie: The Extraordinary Story of the Founding Mothers of NPR" | January 21, 2022

“Writing a biography of a person or place, much less four people and a place as storied as NPR, is not for the faint of heart.”

System/Policy

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

By Lisa Napoli, Author, "Susan, Linda, Nina & Cokie: The Extraordinary Story of the Founding Mothers of NPR" | April 13, 2021

In an excerpt from her new book, author Lisa Napoli examines the collective power of female journalists who helped make NPR what it is today.

People

How Lisa Napoli found herself writing a book about Joan Kroc

By Lisa Napoli, Author, "Susan, Linda, Nina & Cokie: The Extraordinary Story of the Founding Mothers of NPR" | November 8, 2016

The public radio reporter tells the back story behind her new biography about the McDonald’s heiress and NPR benefactor.

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