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Encyclopedia > Katherine Lanpher
Katherine Lanpher
Katherine Lanpher

Katherine Lanpher, born May 27, 1959, was until recently a talk radio personality, and previously an award-winning journalist and newspaper columnist for the Saint Paul Pioneer-Press. Her career includes internships with the Muskegon Chronicle, the Detroit Free Press and the Chicago Sun-Times, where she danced her way through an investigation of dance studios. She has written free-lance articles and columns for publications including the New York Times. Image Property of Air America Radio. ... May 27 is the 147th day (148th in leap years) of the year in the Gregorian calendar, with 218 days remaining. ... 1959 (MCMLIX) was a common year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Talk radio is a radio format which features discussion of topical issues. ... This article or section does not cite its references or sources. ... New Chicago Sun-Times home located at 350 N. Orleans St. ... The New York Times is an internationally known daily newspaper published in New York City and distributed in the United States and many other nations worldwide. ...


As a columnist she also hosted a talk show for a Saint Paul commercial radio station. She was known even then as a liberal voice, although she was not strictly political.


In April 2003, she was charged after allegedly hitting a car and leaving the scene in St. Paul, Minnesota.


Prior to broadcasting, she was a columnist for the St. Paul Pioneer Press for 16 years before leaving to host Minnesota Public Radio's Midmorning program from August 1998 until January 20, 2004. The St. ... Minnesota Public Radio logo Minnesota Public Radio (MPR) is a regional public radio network based in the U.S. state of Minnesota that has been broadcasting since 1967. ... 1998 (MCMXCVIII) was a common year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar, and was designated the International Year of the Ocean. ... January 20 is the 20th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ... 2004 (MMIV) was a leap year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. ...


Lanpher co-hosted the Air America Radio program The Al Franken Show in 2004 and 2005. She left the show on October 7, 2005 to write a memoir concerning her move to New York City. The book is entitled "Leap Days: Chronicles of a Midlife Move" and was published on October 10, 2006. Logo of Air America Radio, a U.S. radio network and program syndication sevice with a liberal point of view. ... The Al Franken Show is the flagship talk show of Air America Radio. ... October 7 is the 280th day of the year (281st in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... 2005 (MMV) was a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Nickname: Big Apple, City that never Sleeps image_skyline = Top_of_Rock_Cropped. ...


See also

The Al Franken Show is the flagship talk show of Air America Radio. ...

External links

  • The Al Franken Show official website
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St. Paul Pioneer Press | 10/22/2006 | Katherine Lanpher's midlife adventure could inspire others to take a leap, too (2153 words)
Lanpher had a wide circle of friends in Minnesota politics, arts and journalism, and she could have worked here successfully for the rest of her life.
Lanpher was born in 1959 ("the same year as Barbie," she points out) and grew up in Moline, Ill.., where she fell in love with reading and the local library.
Lanpher left the Franken show last year because, she writes, "my co-workers wanted a specific result in the political process (the dumping of George Bush), and I was more interested in how we covered it.
Powell's Books - Leap Days: Chronicles of a Midlife Move by Katherine Lanpher (562 words)
Katherine Lanpher, whose essays have appeared in the New York Times and More magazine, officially moved to Manhattan on a leap day, transferring from a rooted life in the Midwest to a new job, a new city, and a new sense of who she was.
Katherine Lanpher's short essay on her first six months in New York — "A Manhattan Admonition" was published last August in the New York Times op-ed page and remained on their list of most e-mailed stories for weeks.
Katherine Lanpher was most recently the co-host on "The Al Franken Show." Her writing has appeared in The New York Times and More magazine, as well as several regional newspapers.
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