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Susan Stamberg (born September 7, 1938) is an American radio journalist. Stamberg was co-host of
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's flagship program ''
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.'' In that role Stamberg was the first female host of a national news broadcast. She's considered one of NPR's "Founding Mothers" along with Nina Totenberg,
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and the late
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. After nearly 50 years at the network, Stamberg is currently a Special Correspondent and her reports appear weekly on NPR's ''
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.''


Early life

Susan Stamberg was born Susan Levitt in
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. She graduated
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in 1959.


Career

For 14 years, beginning in 1972, Stamberg served as co-host of ''
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'', the evening news magazine. She was the first woman to hold a full-time position as
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of a national nightly news broadcast in the United States. She was awarded the Edward R. Murrow Award (CPB). She was the host of Weekend Edition Sunday from 1987 to 1989. In 1994, Stamberg was inducted into the Broadcasting Hall of Fame. In 1996, she was inducted into the
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. For her contributions to radio Stamberg was awarded a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, March 3, 2020. Stamberg interviewed
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several times as host of
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. In the 1980s Stamberg and Rogers recorded several television specials. Each Thanksgiving since 1971, Stamberg provides NPR listeners with her mother-in-law's recipe for a
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relish sauce that is unusual in having
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as one of its principal ingredients. Each year Stamberg comes up with a new way to present the recipe in a new way, notably sharing the dish with rapper
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in 2010. The recipe is known as ''Mama Stamberg's Cranberry Relish Recipe'', although it was originally published in 1959 by Craig Claiborne in his food column. One of her most memorable interviews was with
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–winning economist
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. Stamberg argued with Friedman over the merits of the
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, claiming her conversations with "Russian cabbies" on the streets of New York had shown that the expatriates preferred life in the former
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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." Stamberg was also the first host of the long-running PBS arts series ''
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'', hosting from 1985 to 1986.


Personal life

Stamberg was married to Louis C. Stamberg, who died on October 9, 2007. During a career with the
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Louis Stamberg worked as a program officer and spent more than two years at the USAID mission in New Delhi. Stamberg is the mother of actor Josh Stamberg. She is
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. She is cousin to current ''All Things Considered'' host Ari Shapiro.


See also

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References


External links


NPR bio page
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Susan Stamberg papers
at
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