- Susan Stamberg
Susan Stamberg (b.
7 September 1938 ,Newark, New Jersey ) is an American radio journalist who is currently a Special Correspondent forNational Public Radio and guest host for "Weekend Edition Saturday".Stamberg became the first woman to be a full-time anchor of a national nightly news broadcast in the
United States when she became one of the first hosts of "All Things Considered ". Beginning in 1972, Stamberg served as co-host of the evening news magazine for 14 years. In 1994, Stamberg was inducted into theBroadcasting Hall of Fame , and later into theRadio Hall of Fame in 1996. [The Wisconsin Journalist [http://www.journalism.wisc.edu/alumni/wj/sum02/wj_sum02.pdf. Stamberg urges hard news after 9/11] Retrieved on June 28, 2007]Each Thanksgiving, Stamberg is also known for providing NPR listeners with her mother-in-law's recipe for a
cranberry relish sauce that is noteworthy for havinghorseradish as one of its principal ingredients. The recipe is known as "Mama Stamberg's Cranberry Relish Recipe". [National Public Radio [http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=4176014 NPR FOOD] ]One of her most memorable interviews was with Nobel Prize winning economist
Milton Friedman . Stamberg argued with Friedman over the merits of the free market, claiming her conversations with "Russian cabbies" on the streets of New York had showed that the expatriates preferred life in the former Communist country to "how dreadfully tough their lives are here (the United States)." Friedman dismissed Stamberg's observation, contending, "I'm saying if you really want to know what they really believe about the relative merits of the two systems, see what they do, not what they say. And what they do is to stay here. They don't go back." [NPR, [http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=6497584 "Nobel-Winning Economist Milton Friedman Dies"] , 1999 interview excerpted November 16, 2006. Retrieved Dec. 21, 2006.]Stamberg was married to Louis C. Stamberg, who died on
October 9 ,2007 . During his career with the Agency for International Development he worked as a program officer and spent more than two years at the USAID mission in New Delhi. [Washington Post, Oct. 10, 2007, p. B8. [http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/10/09/AR2007100902166.html "Obituary: Louis Collins Stamberg; USAID Official, Volunteer" by Patricia Sullivan] Retrieved Oct. 10, 2007.] They have one son,Josh Stamberg , an actor.References
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