Revisited: WABE’s Rose Scott’s conversation with Susan Stamberg, a ‘founding mother’ of NPR

Tributes continue to pour in for Susan Stamberg. The broadcast trailblazer died Oct. 16 at the age of 87.

As one of the “founding mothers” of NPR in the 1970s, she is credited with helping to invent a type of radio journalism that hadn’t existed before. Stamberg retired in September, but her broadcast career spanned more than five decades. It included being the first female host of a national news broadcast program. She hosted NPR’s flagship program “All Things Considered” from 1972 to 1986. She later became a cultural correspondent for “Morning Edition” and “Weekend Edition Saturday.”

On Tuesday’s edition of “Closer Look,” we revisited Stamberg’s 2016 interview with program host Rose Scott. During the conversation, Stamberg reflected on the early days of NPR, breaking barriers for women in journalism, her concern about where the industry is headed and her mother-in-law’s iconic cranberry relish recipe.