Vibrant News Magazine Hosted by Journalist, Documentarian Robin Young
Weekdays at Noon – Beginning March 2009
 The latest addition to WNED News 970’s weekday line-up is the energetic news magazine, HERE & NOW, hosted by Robin Young. The program combines the best in news journalism with intelligent, broad-ranging conversation. The result is a fast-paced hour that updates the news from the morning and adds important conversations on public policy and foreign affairs, science and technology, and the arts: film, theater, music, food and more.
“At HERE & NOW, we pride ourselves at being on top of whatever is happening in our world ... when it’s happening,” says Senior Producer Kathleen McKenna. “We begin each day with a plan, but more often than not, those well-laid plans are scrapped, and we find ourselves diving into a late-breaking story.
“We work hard to round out our programs with entertaining feature segments,” she adds. “As we like to say, ‘conversations with authors and artists ... stories that affect you. Maybe even a story about you!’ ”
Robin Young on “What Makes HERE AND NOW Valuable to Public Radio Listeners”
“We are ferocious about covering the news they care about; we have a very well defined muscle after years of practice that is ready to flex when news breaks during the day.
“But we also have the capacity and the ear to linger over riveting human moments, both hilarious and heartbreaking. And we are conversation driven, as opposed to reporter packaged, which gives listeners an opportunity to hear real exchanges, instead of sound bites.” |
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“HERE & NOW is a superb addition to our news lineup,” says Program Director Al Wallack. “Host Robin Young is an experienced journalist whose drive and enthusiasm are positively infectious, and I’m confident our very discerning audience will love her.”
Young brings over 25 years of eclectic broadcast experience to her role. She is a Peabody Award-winning documentary filmmaker and has been a correspondent for the Discovery Channel, CBS and ABC. For several years, she was a substitute host and correspondent for NBC’s Today show.
The program’s guest roster boasts such notables as Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist David Halberstam; professor Anita Hill; actor and director John Malkovich; authors Isabel Allende, Jonathan Safron Foer and Marilyn Robinson; The Wall Street Journal’s John Harwood; jazzman Sonny Rollins; and actress Jane Fonda.
HERE AND NOW is produced by WBUR/Boston and distributed nationally by Public Radio International.
For daily program descriptions and audio archives, visit
www.here-now.org.
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