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Linda Wertheimer

Linda Wertheimer is a senior national correspondent for National Public Radio, and former senior host of NPR’s award-winning newsmagazine All Things Considered. Wertheimer joined NPR in 1971 as a tape editor and soon after became ATC’s first director.

Before becoming a host on ATC in 1989, Wertheimer provided award-winning coverage of national politics and Congress for NPR. In 1976, Wertheimer became the first woman to anchor network coverage of a presidential nomination convention and of election night. She was the first person to broadcast live from inside the U.S. Senate chamber, winning a special Alfred I. duPont-Columbia University Award for her coverage of the Senate Panama Canal Treaty debates. Wertheimer has received numerous other journalism awards, including a shared Alfred I. duPont-Columbia University Silver Baton for NPR’s coverage of the first 100 days of the 104th Congress. Her 1995 book, Listening to America: Twenty-five Years in the Life of a Nation as Heard on National Public Radio, celebrates NPR’s history.