Linda Wertheimer is a radio journalist for National Public Radio (NPR). NPR redirects here. ...

Wertheimer was born on March 19, 1943 in Carlsbad, New Mexico.^[1] She graduated from Wellesley College with the class of 1965. She worked for the BBC and WCBS after graduating. Wertheimer was reportedy told she should be a researcher, rather than an on-air reporter, by an executive at NBC^[2]. March 19 is the 78th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (79th in leap years). ... 1943 (MCMXLIII) was a common year starting on Friday (the link is to a full 1943 calendar). ... the traditional English name for the city and spa Karlovy Vary, Czech Republic Carlsbad, California Carlsbad, New Mexico, with Carlsbad Caverns National Park nearby Carlsbad, Texas ... Capital Santa Fe Largest city Albuquerque Area  Ranked 5th  - Total 121,665 sq mi (315,194 km²)  - Width 342 miles (550 km)  - Length 370 miles (595 km)  - % water 0. ... Wellesley College is a womens liberal arts college that opened in 1875, founded by Henry Fowle Durant and his wife Pauline Fowle Durant. ... This article is an overview article about the Crown chartered British Broadcasting Corporation formed in 1927. ... WCBS is the callsign of the Columbia Broadcasting Systems three flagship broadcast stations in New York: WCBS AM, 880kHz WCBS-FM, 101. ...

NPR, however, had no such reservations. Wertheimer began her career with NPR from the beginning in 1971, and became a political correspondent in 1974. In 1976, she was the anchor for NPR's coverage of a presidential nomination convention, and later, for election night: she was the first woman to do so^[3].

She has anchored ten presidential nomination conventions and twelve election nights in her career. She continued in her role as a political correspondant through 1989, at which point she became a host of the NPR news magazine show All Things Considered, a role she would continue in for thirteen years. In 2002, she left that role and became NPR's first senior national correspondent. All Things Considered, sometimes abbreviated ATC, is a news radio program in the United States, broadcast on the National Public Radio network. ...

In 1979, Wertheimer won a DuPont-Columbia Award for excellence in broadcast journalism. She won the award for her live coverage of the debate in the United States Senate about the Torrijos-Carter Treaties, concerning the Panama Canal, in February of 1978. Her coverage spanned a period of 37 days and marked the first time a live broadcast was transmitted from inside the Senate chamber.^[4] Washingtonian magazine named Wertheimer one of the top 50 journalists in Washington, while Vanity Fair called her one of the 200 most influential women in America.^[5]. The Alfred I. duPont-Columbia University Award is an American award that honors excellence in broadcast journalism. ... Seal of the U.S. Senate The United States Senate is one of the two chambers of the United States Congress, the other being the House of Representatives. ... Map of Panama, with Panama canal The Torrijos-Carter Treaties (sometimes referred to in the singular as the Torrijos-Carter Treaty), are a pair of treaties signed by the United States and Panama in Washington, D. C. on September 7, 1977, abrogating the Hay-Bunau Varilla Treaty signed in 1903. ... The Panama Canal (Spanish: ) is a major ship canal that traverses the Isthmus of Panama in Central America, connecting the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans. ... The Washingtonian is a monthly magazine distrubuted in the Washington DC area. ... Vanity Fair: A Novel without a Hero is a novel by William Makepeace Thackeray that satirizes society in early 19th-century England. ...

She is the author of a book, Listening to America: Twenty-Five Years in the Life of a Nation as Heard on NPR, a book about recent American history as covered on NPR.^[6].

References

1. ^ [1]
2. ^ "Invisible Stars: A Social History of Women in American Broadcasting" by Donna L. Halper, pg. 218
3. ^ "Linda Wertheimer, NPR Biography"
4. ^ DuPont Columbia award winners, accessed 9/27/06.
5. ^ "Linda Wertheimer Takes on New Assignment", NPR press release, December 10, 2001
6. ^ Listening to America by Linda Wertheimer (editor)