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29th Wait Wait... The Profile Annual Don’t Tell Me NPR Reporters Wine Tasting Live Cinecast Honored for Sunday, May 5 Thursday, May 2 Syria Coverage You are cordially invited to Valley Public Radio's

Wine Tasting & Silentannual Auction Hosts: 29th Linda & Kevin Lester Enjoy one of the San Joaquin Valley's premier wine tasting events, Invitations: with some of California's finest wines, gourmet delights from The Dumont Printing Elbow Room, live entertainment, and a silent auction. This year’s event Catering: celebrates “Red White and Green” as we are inviting some of California’s Elbow Room, Fig Garden Village most famous and well-established vintners, to pour alongside some of Cellar Master: the newest and most innovative wineries, showcasing the vibrancy of a Zumwalt Construction variety of wines, and their development over the years. Vintner: EECU Sunday, May 5, 2013 Master Sommelier: RDT Architecture & Interior Design, Inc. 3:30 - 6:30 pm Dr. Thomas Downing McCormick Barstow LLP, Attorneys at Law in the riverside garden of The Lester Estate Eye-Q Vision Care Wells Fargo Private Bank Fresno, CA Connoisseur: Hosts: Linda & Kevin Lester Debrah Prewit and Roland Isaak Petunia’s Place Principal Financial Regency Investment Advisors Tickets are limited. Scharton, Jones & German Federico Consulting, Inc. Donation $75 per person Glass Sponsor: All proceeds benefit FM89 Ahwahnee Hotel at Yosemite An Event for Adults age 21 and above - Event Conducted Rain or Shine Bottled Water Sponsor: For additional details contact Valley Public Radio/FM89 Clovis Community Medical Center (559) 275-0764 • (800) 275-0764 South Valley Bus Sponsor: Order tickets online at www.kvpr.org Klein, DeNatale, Goldner, Cooper, Rosenlieb & Kimball, LLP

Raffle Prize Sponsor: United Healthcare Complimentary Roundtrip Bus Transportation Event Donor: from Bakersfield and Visalia James G. Parker One bus will be available to transport guests traveling from Visalia and Cupcake Sponsor: Bakersfield. If you would like to reserve seats for this free round-trip La Boulangerie transportation to the tasting please check the box on the order form. Media Sponsor: Box Lunch will be provided by PM Custom Catering. The Business Journal Vintner Coordinator: Silent Auction Barry Bennett Sneak Peak at some items you’ll be seeing at this year’s Silent Auction Very Special Thanks To: Winery Tours & Tastings • Outdoor Adventures Linda & Dr. Kevin Lester Private Dinners • Vacation Getaways Walker Lewis Rents, Inc. Home Appliances • Restaurant & Entertainment Certificates Michael Shirinian, The Elbow Room Chef Roy Harland, The Elbow Room A Variety of Artwork • Health & Beauty Lisa Boyer Fig Garden Golf Course Wine Tasting Raffle: Dr. & Mrs. Bernard Karian Martinelli’s $1,500 Cash Prize by United Healthcare Planet Java Nick Marziliano, Sam’s Italian Deli San Joaquin Valley Rehabilitation Raffle Tickets $3 each or 12 for $30 T&D Willey Farms Drawing Date: Monday, May 13, 2013 Gayle Takakjian-Gilbert Sally Selby, Bakersfield Bus Coordinator Tickets will be mailed separately or call (800) 275-0764 Ruth Medlin, Visalia Bus Coordinator Music Provided by: 2 Rule 62 A Note from the MANAGER

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Rick Ataide • Marian Mosley • Susan Early • Dr. Troy Smith • Because of you, our members, corporate and foundation partners, advisory council members, COMMUNITY ADVISORY COUNCIL — volunteers, staff and Board leaders, we exceeded our January membership campaign goal of Lynne Ashbeck • Jim Ashford • $165,000. On the final day of January, you had raised over $178,000 in membership monies for Dan Awbrey • Todd Baxter • Hagop T. Bedoyan • Edgar Blunt • Valley Public Radio. This is a record amount of money raised for a membership campaign. We are Dr. Jay Center • Lorraine Christiansen • thrilled and inspired by your generosity and willingness to help the station grow. Your membership Vernon Crowder • Celeste De Monte • gifts strengthen our sustainability as an organization and allow us to better plan for the future. With Jean W. Fennacy • James Hallowell • Dr. Anna Hamre • Frank Hoffman • gratitude we say thank you! Craig Houghton • Linda Lester • Lou McMurray • Connie M. Parker • The 29th annual Valley Public Radio wine tasting is scheduled for Sunday, May 5th, at the scenic Daniel E. Swartz, MD • Gayle Takakjian-Gilbert • gardens of the Lester Estate. Sample red, white and green wines, enjoy the entertainment, discover Chuck Van Fleet • Renee von Hagel • Kevin Williams • Jane H. Willson • Kurt Zumwalt Mothers Day gifts at the silent auction, and sample incredible appetizers prepared by Chef Roy Harland of the Elbow Room. If you have not yet experienced a wine tasting, I guarantee this to be a KERN ADVISORY COUNCIL — Sue Deininger • Greg Gallion • Susan Hersberger • very relaxing and most enjoyable afternoon. All proceeds benefit Valley Public Radio. Carla Musser • Dr. Larry E. Reider • Thomas P. Seville We also have a new program this Spring. Each week, host Alec Baldwin presents interviews with orchestra musicians, guest artists and conductors on the New York Philharmonic, Monday evenings at VOLUNTEERS — Development: Juanita Barnett • 8:00 following the Thomas Jefferson Hour. Elizabeth Donaldson • Marilyn Fogal • Nina Garver • Pat Gebs • Cora Grant • Valley Public Radio is pleased to continue serving as the home for the Fresno Philharmonic broadcasts. Nancy Howard • Gerry and Gray Hughes • If you missed the concert, you can always listen on the second Tuesday following the concert at 8:00 Rosella Isaak • Viktoria Landgren • PM. If you forget, call the station, or check the listing on the website. Valley Public Radio is pleased to Bill Lewis • Carmen Linares • Inger Lindhe • Margrette Long • Maxine Maples • Diana Marks • present the best combination of national and local content available. Carmen Phillips • Rita Zerlang • I want to share with you a Facebook comment that exemplifies the impact public radio has on STAFF — listeners’ lives, especially with future generations. “Nothing brings me greater joy than having my three Carolyn Carter, Corporate Marketing Representative • John English, Membership Manager • year old daughter listen to Valley Public Radio in the car with me and tell me that she loves what is on Kristen Furtado, Business Intern • because she heard it on Baby Einstein.” I would guess she might be a future Young Artist! Joe Garcia, Development Director • Joe Moore, Director of Program Content • Michelle Murphy, Intern • Rebecca Plevin, Reporter • Kristina Richardson, Assistant to the GM • Mariam Stepanian Ezra Romero, Reporter/Producer • Shirin Sohrabi, Business Manager • President & General Manager Mariam Stepanian, President & General Manager • Don Weaver, Operations/Production Manager • Vince DiCiccio, Program Host • On the Cover: “Water Tower” by Cynthia Chapman Manuszak Kristina Herrick, Music Manager • An artist, photographer and writer with an M.A. in art, Manuszak lives in Fresno Juanita Stevenson, Program Host • California though is originally from the Bay Area. She presently works out of her Franz Weinschenk, Program Host • home studio and her work may be seen by appointment. Manuszak’s work has Announcers : Marv Allen • George Mason • been exhibited throughout the Valley, in venues including Margaret Hudson Gallery, Leigh Murray • Jason Scott • Mark Thomas • Engineers: Scott Dean • Steve Mull Fresno Art Museum, Pacific Towers, Studio 74, Gallery 25, and .

Mar / Apr | 2013 3 Valley Public Radio PROGRAMS

Music WEEKEND Hosted by Peabody Award-winning . Sundays at For a listing of our music selections, visit KVPR.org or contact the station. 6pm. CHICAGO SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA The weekly broadcasts offer a unique LEFT, RIGHT & CENTER A fast-paced half-hour of smart, witty, and serious talk that format that includes dynamic and innovative content to illustrate takes on the week’s front-page issues. Now at a new time, Saturdays at the fascinating stories found inside the music, with insight from the 6pm. performers themselves. Broadcasts are Tuesdays at 8pm. National and international news from NPR. Weekdays from CLASSICS ALL NIGHT with Peter Van De Graaff The classics come alive after 3am to 9am. dark with host Peter Van De Graaff. You’ll hear sweet and soothing NPR’s acclaimed national talk & news program, hosted by selections perfectly suited for late night and early morning listening, , comes to Valley Public Radio weekdays from 11am to 1pm. and many of your classical favorites. Late nights & early mornings: VALLEY EDITION Host Juanita Stevenson covers the issues that matter to Valley weekdays until 3am; weekends until 5am. residents each week with a mix of in-depth reports, studio discussions CLEARLY CLASSICAL Your weekday classical companion with a mix of musical and calls from listeners. Valley Edition airs live on Tuesdays at 9am, and is selections from the FM89 library. You’ll hear familiar favorites and rare repeated Tuesdays at 7pm. gems. Monday thru Friday 9am-11am (except Tuesday 10am-11am) The Saturday and Sunday edition of NPR’s most popular news and 1pm-4pm. program. Weekend mornings from 5am to 9am. CONCIERTO Classical music by Spanish and Latin American composers and performers, presented in English and Spanish. Hosted by Frank Talk & Entertainment Dominguez. Saturdays at 8pm America’s Test Kitchen Radio Host Christopher Kimball explores the wide world FOOTLIGHT PARADE Each week, host Bill Rudman explores a different aspect of the of food, with interviews, listener calls, kitchen tips and techniques that Broadway Theatre tradition through music and song. Saturdays at 7pm. illuminate the truth about real home cooking. Saturdays at 4pm. IN THE MODE Music from the medieval and Renaissance eras, hosted by Kristina CAR TALK Click and Clack handle listeners’ calls with spirited comments and Herrick. Sundays at 12:06pm. sound advice. Saturdays at 10am. THE INTERSECTION: Where Jazz meets the Classics FM89’s Vince DiCiccio hosts this THE MOTH True stories told live, from professional and amateur storytellers unique blend of music that connects the worlds of jazz and classical based in New York. Sundays at 7pm. music. New programs on Saturday evenings at 10pm; repeats on PHILOSOPHY TALK On this program hosts John Perry and Ken Taylor, “question Fridays at 8pm. everything except your intelligence.” This fun and thought provoking JAZZ AT LINCOLN CENTER Hosted by Wynton Marsalis, the program features program explores philosophy and how it shapes our lives. Thursday recent concerts from Lincoln Center and around the world. This weekly nights at 7pm. program airs Fridays at 7pm. Radiolab Radiolab believes your ears are a portal to another world, where NEW YORK PHILHARMONIC Recorded performances of the New York sound illuminates ideas and the boundaries blur between science, Philharmonic hosted by Alec Baldwin. Mondays at 8pm. philosophy and human experience. Saturdays at noon. THE OASIS A mix of mainstream jazz, Latin & Brazilian jazz and more. Hosted TED RADIO HOUR Innovative ideas from the world’s top thinkers. Sundays at 4pm. live from the FM89 studios by Vince DiCiccio on Sundays from 9pm to TRAVEL WITH RICK STEVES This is a weekly one-hour conversation about travel, midnight. cultures, people, and the things we find around the world that give life its SUNDAY BAROQUE This program celebrates the current wealth of recorded extra sparkle. Saturdays at 9am. Baroque music. Suzanne Bona hosts every Sunday from 9am to Noon. THE THOMAS JEFFERSON HOUR Renowned Humanities scholar Clay Jenkinson, THE THISTLE & SHAMROCK Host ’s weekly program has become a as Thomas Jefferson, explores the mind and achievements of the great gathering place on the radio for those that love music with Celtic roots. President. Mondays at 7pm. Sundays at 8pm. VALLEY WRITERS READ Hosted by Franz Weinschenk, authors from our own WEEKEND CLASSICS Musical selections from FM89. communities read their literary fiction. Wednesdays at 7pm. YOUNG ARTIST’S SPOTLIGHT Live performances by student musicians through WAIT WAIT…DON’T TELL ME! NPR Newsman is the official judge, April 24. Wednesdays at 3pm.. scorekeeper and voice extraordinaire of this fun-filled hour of mind- stretching play. Hosted by . Saturdays at 11am, repeated News & Information Sundays at 4pm. News magazine from NPR. Weekdays 4pm to 7pm. (ends at 6:30 on Fridays) Weekends 5pm to 6pm. Features EARTH / SKY Weekdays at 5:37am, 7:33:am, 12:59pm. THE CALIFORNIA REPORT This statewide newscast is heard weekday mornings at A MOMENT IN TIME Weekdays at 5:33am and 8:20am. 6:50am and 7:50am. The California Report Magazine, a half-hour news STAR DATE Weekdays at 5:58am, 6:58am and 9:58pm. magazine program, is heard Fridays at 6:30pm, with a rebroadcast THE MORAL IS Sundays 3:55pm, Wednesdays 7:55pm. Saturdays at 6:30pm.

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Mar / Apr | 2013 5 NPR Foreign Correspondents win Prestigious Award for Syria Coverage

Every day, NPR journalists travel the world to bring listeners the truth, whether that’s in the halls of Congress or a war torn street half a world away. Sometimes those journalists even put their own lives at risk to bring you the story, the sounds and the images of conflict, triumph and tragedy.

Two of NPR’s most experienced foreign correspondents, Deborah Amos and Kelly McEvers recently received honors for their work in covering the bloody uprising in Syria and its effect on the region. The two journalists were NPR’s series of daily news reports about the conflict honored with the prestigious duPont-Columbia in Syria was wide ranging, balanced and in depth. Award at a ceremony in New York earlier this year. Veteran foreign correspondent Deb Amos provided The award is among the highest honors a broadcast critical context and explanation in her reporting that journalist can receive. helped listeners understand the complex sectarian and regional factors at play. Her reporting from Due to the Assad regime’s official ban on foreign inside Syria at the scene of a massacre and the journalists, Amos, McEvers and their producers were capitol Damascus documented spikes in violence. forced to travel to Syria clandestinely. Their coverage Correspondent Kelly McEvers brought a focus on documented the immense toll the fighting has individual stories that made the conflict real in human inflicted on Syrian children living in refugee camps, terms. With mainstream reporters banned from the struggle for food in the northern city of Aleppo, travel to Syria, her extensive reporting on Youtube and the story of Syrian-American doctors returning to distributed videos of the fighting filmed by activists their homeland to help heal the injured. shed light on what was happening. The awards committee at the Columbia University Behind the scenes, NPR takes great precautions Graduate School of Journalism wrote the following when sending reporters to war zones. The network’s about their coverage, calling it intelligent and security consultant works directly with reporters resourceful: and editors to take every possible precaution to

6 ensure safety. Each trip takes weeks of planning and coordination, complete with confidential security and check- Syria Coveragein procedures with senior NPR editors stationed in a nearby country. Last year, more than 28 journalists were killed in Syria, according to a report by the Committee to Protect Journalists. In December of last year, several journalists from NBC were kidnapped by an unknown militant group. They were held captive for five days before they were freed in a firefight in which two of the captors were killed. And days after McEvers left Syria on her most recent trip, a French journalist was killed in Aleppo.

See coverage by Deborah Amos and Kelly McEvers on Syria and other conflicts at KVPR.org:

Mar / Apr | 2013 7 About Deborah Amos: Deborah Amos covers the Middle East for NPR News. Her reports can be heard on NPR’s award- winning Morning Edition, All Things Considered and Weekend Edition. Amos travels extensively across the Middle East covering a range of stories including the rise of well-educated Syria youth who are unqualified for jobs in a market-drive economy, a series focusing on the emerging power of Turkey and the plight of Iraqi refugees.

In 2009, Amos won the Edward Weintal Prize for Diplomatic Re- porting from Georgetown University and in 2010 was awarded the Edward R. Murrow Life Time Achievement Award by Wash- ington State University. Amos was part of a team of reporters The ProFile: who won a 2004 Alfred I. Dupont-Columbia Award for coverage Middle East Correspondent Deborah Amos - ‘My of Iraq. A Nieman Fellow at Harvard University in 1991-1992, reporting goal is to find the human spirit.’ Amos was returned to Harvard in 2010 as a Shorenstein Fellow by CAITLIN SANDERS at the Kennedy School. My name... Deborah Amos ... Which time? 1977 to In 2003, Amos returned to NPR after a decade in television NPR employee since 1994 or 2003 to 2013. news, including ABC’s Nightline and World News Tonight and Public radio listener since... a few weeks the PBS programs NOW with Bill Moyers and Frontline. before I applied for a job in 1977. When Amos first came to NPR in 1977, she worked first as a My job at NPR is... Middle East correspondent. My reporting career has been director and then a producer for Weekend All Things Consid- to witness to tragedy, my reporting goal is ered until 1979. For the next six years, she worked on radio to find the human spirit. documentaries, which won her several significant honors. In I can’t live without... my Skype account so 1982, Amos received the Prix Italia, the Ohio State Award, I can call home. and a DuPont-Columbia Award for “Father Cares: The Last I use social media to... keep up with my of Jonestown” and in 1984 she received a Robert F. Kennedy story. Journalism Award for “Refugees.” If I could share a coffee with anyone, it would be... Bashar Al Assad, President of From 1985 until 1993, Amos spend most of her time at NPR Syria to figure out how he thinks. reporting overseas, including as the London Bureau Chief and The one word I always stumble over on air as an NPR foreign correspondent based in Amman, Jordan. is... not words, but numbers. I am number During that time, Amos won several awards, including an Alfred dyslexic. I. DuPont-Columbia Award and a Break thru Award, and wide- When I go into the studio, I always have... spread recognition for her coverage of the Gulf War in 1991. my heart in my throat. I’ve learned the most about radio A member of the Council on Foreign Relations, Amos is also from... Kelly McEvers [NPR International the author of Eclipse of the Sunnis: Power, Exile, and Upheaval Correspondent based in Beirut, Lebanon] in the Middle East (Public Affairs, 2010) and Lines in the Sand: In my suitcase, you’ll find... sea salt and Desert Storm and the Remaking of the Arab World (Simon and Aleppo pepper, so I can always have a well- Schuster, 1992). seasoned kebab. My next gadget will be... a pedometer. Amos began her career after receiving a degree in broadcasting I make it a point to never miss... from the University of Florida at Gainesville. “Breaking Bad.”

8 About About Deborah Amos: Kelly KellyMcEvers is NPR’s international McEvers: correspondent based in Beirut, Lebanon. Prior to moving into this reporting location in January 2012, McEvers was based at NPR’s Baghdad Bureau.

In 2011, she traveled undercover to follow Arab uprisings in places where brutal crackdowns quickly followed the early euphoria of protests. While colleagues were celebrating with Beginning her journalism career in 1997 at the Chicago Tri- protesters in Egypt or rebels in Libya, McEvers was hunkered bune, McEvers worked as a metro reporter and spent nearly down with underground activists in Bahrain, Yemen, and Syria. a year documenting the lives of female gang members for the She has been tear-gassed in Bahrain; she has spent a night Sunday magazine. in a tent city with a Yemeni woman who would later share the Nobel Peace Prize; and she has spent long hours with the In addition to NPR, her radio work has appeared on PRI/Chi- shadowy group of anti-government rebels known as the Free cago Public Radio’s This American Life, NPR’s Hearing Voices Syrian Army. and On the Media, ’s Weekend America, and the CBC. Her writing has appeared in In Iraq, she covered the final withdrawal of U.S. troops and Magazine, Esquire, Foreign Policy, The New Republic, The New the political chaos that has gripped the country since. Before York Review of Books Online, The Washington Monthly, and arriving in Iraq in 2010, McEvers was one of the first Western the San Francisco Chronicle. She is a founder of Six Billion, an correspondents to be based, full-time, in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. online magazine that was a regular feature at Harvard Univer- She also covered Yemen and other Persian Gulf countries. sity’s Nieman Conference on Narrative Journalism. In 2008 and 2009, McEvers was part of a team that produced McEvers served as a fellow with the International Reporting the award-winning “Working” series for American Public Project at the Johns Hopkins University School for Advanced Media’s business and finance show, Marketplace. She filed International Studies. She earned a master’s degree from sound-rich profiles of a war fixer in Beirut, a smuggler in Dubai, Northwestern University’s Medill School of Journalism and has a sex-worker in Baku, a pirate in the Strait of Malacca and a been a professor of journalism at universities in the U.S. and marriage broker in Vietnam. abroad. She has a bachelor’s in English literature and political From 2004-2006, McEvers covered the former Soviet Union science from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. for PRI’s The World. She investigated the Russian military’s role in the violent end to the three-day school siege by Chechen militants in the Russian town of Beslan. She was later accused of spying and detained for three days by Russian security forces near the border with Chechnya.

After 9/11, McEvers covered Indonesia, Malaysia, and Singa- pore for NPR and other outlets — including in-depth stories on Jemaah Islamiyah, the region’s Al Qaeda-linked terrorist network that planned and executed deadly attacks at two Bali nightclubs in 2002.

McEvers was based in Phnom Penh, Cambodia from 1999- 2000 for the BBC World Service. From there, she filed her first NPR story on then-emerging plans to try former members of the Khmer Rouge. She is one of the first reporters to knock on the door of Nuon Chea, the so-called “Brother No. 2” who served under Pol Pot.

Mar / Apr | 2013 9 WAIT WAIT...DONT TELL ME! Comes to the Silver Screen in Live Broadcast Event

Valley Public Radio to host screening Thursday May 2 at 8:00pm “It’s Wait Wait... Don’t Tell Me! like you’ve never seen it before! [Because, well, normally you can’t see it -- it’s a radio show.”]

Watch the week’s news get the treatment it deserves in the comfort of your neighborhood theater, when the NPR news quiz show Wait Wait… Don’t Tell Me! brings its star power to the big screen for a special LIVE performance in select cinemas nationwide.

Host Peter Sagal and official judge and scorekeeper Carl Kasell will lead the cinecast, broadcast live from the New York University’s Skirball Center for the Performing Arts.

Peter and Carl will be joined by panelists , and Tom Bodett to play the quiz in front of a live audience. Carl reading limericks! Celebrity guests answering stupid questions! Faces made for radio! You’ve heard it in 1D, now see it live in glorious...2D.

Don’t miss Wait Wait... Don’t Tell Me! live on the big screen on Thursday, May 2nd, at 8pm. (the event broadcast is tape delayed on the west coast)

It all happens locally, on Thursday, May 2 at 8pm at theatres in Fresno, Bakersfield, Merced and Hanford. Valley Public Radio is pleased to host this rare event at the following theatres:

Fresno Stadium 21

Bakersfield Stadium 14

Mainplace Stadium Cinema in Merced

Movies 8 in Hanford

A repeat showing of the event will take place on Tuesday, May 7th at 7:30pm at the Fresno and Bakersfield theatres only.

10 For this stage adaptation of the weekly radio show, Sagal and Kasell will quiz Wait Wait… Don’t Tell Me! panelists – the comedians, writers and style icons Paula Poundstone, Mo Rocca and Tom Bodett – special guests and listener contestants through a comic review of the week’s news. Carl reading limericks! Celebrity guests answering oddball questions! Faces made for radio! You’ve heard it in 1D, now see it live in glorious...2D.

Tickets for Wait Wait… Don’t Tell Me! – Live are available at presenting theater box offices and also at www.FathomEvents.com, where there is a complete list of theaters and prices (theaters and participants are subject to change). The event is presented by NCM Fathom Events, NPR, WBEZ- Chicago and BY Experience, and will be broadcast to more than 600 movie theaters across the country through NCM’s exclusive Digital Broadcast Network.

“We’ve always wanted to do our show all over the country, simultaneously, and finally turned to this idea of a nationwide simulcast when our experiments in cloning didn’t come out as well as we hoped,” says host Peter Sagal. “That said, ‘Little Carl’ has shown a real propensity for handling simple tasks and grunting the hour’s news.”

Wait Wait… Don’t Tell Me! – Live will feature all the fun and games of the weekly radio show, only this time NPR has to add a budget line for pants. See celebrities sweat it out during “Not My Job,” where the famous (past players include , then- Senator , Martha Stewart and Alec Baldwin) are interviewed and quizzed on subjects outside their area of expertise. Contestants will guess what newsmakers Kasell is impersonating in “Who’s Carl This Time?,” and select the one true story out of three unlikely tales from our panelists, in “Bluff the Listener.” Players vie for the most coveted prize in all of public radio: a custom-recorded greeting by Kasell for their voicemail.

Now in its 15th season, the Peabody Award- winning Wait Wait... Don’t Tell Me! has an audience of more than 3.2 million listeners weekly on nearly 630 NPR Member public radio stations. The radio show is produced by NPR and WBEZ. To find local stations and broadcast times, get the free podcast and digest the culinary courageousness of Sandwich Monday, visit www.npr.org/waitwait.

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Gary NPR President Knell and CEO

“I’m inspired by what, collectively, we’re capable of achieving”

Gary Knell, NPR’s new CEO brings a unique perspective to the network’s leadership, having successfully guided fellow public broadcasting organization Sesame Workshop for 12 years. While radio remains a rapidly changing medium, Knell is a firm believer in the future of broadcast. As he recently told listeners via his Twitter page, “Radio isn’t going away, it’s going everywhere,” commenting on the way stations are using digital technology to reach new audiences. In this edition of The ProFile, we learn a little more about what makes the head of NPR tick:

As President and CEO, Gary E. Knell leads NPR’s worldwide and global recognition. Knell was instrumental in focusing media operations, which include partnerships with 900 the organization on Sesame Street’s worldwide mission, public radio stations. including the creation of groundbreaking co-productions in South Africa, India, Northern Ireland and Egypt. Knell oversees the fiscal, operational, and journalistic integrity of NPR and leads the building of the organization Prior to joining Sesame Workshop, Knell was managing and its philanthropic base to support and leverage the director of Manager Media International, a print and strengths of NPR and its extensive network of stations. multimedia publishing company based in Bangkok, Hong As a strong advocate of innovation, he is a key driver in Kong, and Singapore. He has also served as senior vice leveraging new technologies to advance NPR’s core mission president and general counsel at WNET/Channel 13 in and grow audience for all of public media. New York, was counsel to the U.S. Senate Judiciary and Governmental Affairs Committees in Washington, D.C. and With a career in public media spanning nearly three worked in the California State Legislature and Governor’s decades, Knell served as CEO of Sesame Workshop for Office. 12 years before joining NPR in 2011. During his tenure at Sesame, which he joined in 1989 and assumed the role Knell is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations. of COO in 1998 before moving into the CEO role in 2000, He serves on the boards of Heidrick and Struggles, an the organization expanded its revenue base, audience executive search firm; National Geographic Education

16 My name... Gary E. Knell NPR employee since... December 2011 Public radio listener since... 1978. I was working on Capitol Hill and became a regular listener of All Things Considered, every day in the office at 5 o’clock (it started at 5 o’clock back then). I became hooked from then on. My job at NPR is... several jobs rolled into one, I’ve discovered. One is the head of a great, global news organization and a cultural content center with NPR Music and Books, which is really an important part of my focus and attraction to NPR. Sometimes, I also play the role of Public Radio Commissioner, Fundraiser in Chief and Capitol Hill Advocate. It’s a balancing act in a lot of ways. Comes with the territory I guess. My most recent read was... the LBJ biography by Robert Caro, and I’m reading Tom Wolfe’s book now, which is about Miami. It’s a fabulous book. On Sunday morning, you’ll find me... definitely watching the English Premier League soccer matches (which start at 8 a.m. on the East Coast). I’ve learned the most about radio from... I grew up with a radio in my room as a kid - listening, going to sleep with all-news radio on at my bedside (that explains a lot!), or sometimes Lakers basketball games. But public radio veterans like , , , and many others across NPR have taught me the most about radio. It’s because of them that radio has been a hugely successful medium in spite of being declared dead for decades. is a breath of Fresh Air. When faced with choosing between the Knicks or Nets, I always Foundation; and the Jacob Burns Film Center. He is a board go... Nets, totally. I’m a Brooklyn guy. member of Common Sense Media and an advisor to the My favorite DC discovery has been... well I lived here 30 years Annenberg School of Communications at USC and the ago, and the city has really changed. So it’s a much more diverse city Military Child Education Coalition. from a cultural and dining perspective and a lot cooler. You couldn’t literally buy a bagel. I like Chinatown Coffee and a place near George A Gordon Grand Fellow at Yale University, Knell was a guest Washington University called Burger Tap & Shake. I’ve been known to lecturer at Harvard University, Duke University, Southern go in there and have a burger and a beer after work... and do emails. Methodist University, Carnegie Mellon University, and the While stuck at home (and in the dark) during Superstorm Sandy, University of Puerto Rico. He received an Honorary Doctorate I... listened to Brian Lehrer by candlelight. We literally had no power for from Mercy College in New York and has served as the about a week and a half. We ended up listening to WNYC (which was a commencement speaker at Johns Hopkins University, UCLA, lifeline) to find out what was going on. They did a fantastic job - it was a great collaboration with our correspondents spread across the region. and the University of Texas at Austin. I’m inspired by what, collectively, we’re capable of achieving and can’t wait to see what we can do together in 2013. Knell received a Bachelor of Arts degree in Political Science from UCLA, where he also served as Editorial Director of ______the UCLA Daily Bruin and was a stringer for the Associated This ProFile feature is just one in a collection of profiles introducing you to the Press. He received a JD from Loyola University School of Law people who bring you NPR. These are the journalists and staff - the names you know and those you don’t - who are behind the programming you experience in Los Angeles. every day that makes NPR, well, NPR.

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Events/Exhibits Through 12th Annual Rogue Festival Severance Theater, 1401 N. Wishon Ave., Fresno calartsacademy.com 6-29 Arts Visalia: Bridging Form & Function – Exploring the Boundaries of Art & Craft 214 E. Oak Avenue, Visalia ...... artsvisalia.org 7 San Joaquin River Parkway & Conservation Trust: Kickoff 2013 Clovis Veterans Memorial District Building, 808 4th Street, Clovis ...... riverparkway.org 7-31 Spectrum Art Gallery: New Members Exhibit 608 E. Olive Avenue, Fresno spectrumphotogallery.org 20 San Joaquin Valley Town Hall Lecture Series: Why Zebras Don’t Get Ulcers William Saroyan Theatre, 700 M Street, Fresno valleytownhall.com 28 Through 6/9 Bakersfield Museum of Art: Spring Exhibitions 1930 R Street, Bakersfield bmoa.org Music 2 Tulare County Symphony Orchestra: Masterworks V “Musical Stories” Visalia Fox Theatre, 308 West Main Street, Visalia tcsymphony.org 3 Fresno Grand Opera: Katherine Jenkins Warnors Theatre, 1400 Fulton Street, Fresno ...... fresnograndopera.org 8-10 Fresno Philharmonic: Mozart Requiem Shaghoian Hall, 2770 E. International Ave, Fresno fresnophil.org 9 Bakersfield Symphony Orchestra: Carl Orff - Carmina Burana Rabobank Theater, 1001 Truxtun Avenue, Bakersfield bakersfieldsymphony.org 10 Bakersfield Community Concert Association: New Directions Veterans Choir Rabobank Theater, 1001 Truxtun Avenue, Bakersfield bakersfieldcca.org 13 Philip Lorenz Memorial Keyboard Concerts: Jeremy Denk Fresno State Concert Hall, 2380 E. Keats Avenue, Fresno ...... keyboardconcerts.com 17 San Joaquin Valley Chapter American Guild of Organists: Hymns for All Seasons First Presbyterian Church, 415 Redington Street, Hanford sjvago.org 17 Dukes Concert Series: Bakersfield College Chorale First Congregational Church, 5 Real Road, Bakersfield ...... fccbakersfield-ucc.org 17 Pacific Artist Series #5: Arlene Steffen, Piano McDonald Hall Atrium, Fresno Pacific University, 1717 S. Chestnut Avenue ...... fresno.edu 17 Fresno Grand Opera: Broadway on Van Ness First Congregational Church, 2131 N. Van Ness Blvd., Fresno ...... fresnograndopera.org Theatre/Dance 1-2 Valley Performing Arts Council: Beauty and The Beast William Saroyan Theatre, 700 M Street, Fresno ...... valleyperformingartscouncil.org 1-9 Theatre and Dance: Why Marry? Fresno City College, Main Stage Theatre, Fresno ...... fresnocitycollege.edu 5-6 Broadway in Fresno: West Side Story William Saroyan Theatre, 700 M Street, Fresno ...... magicspace.net/fresno 21 thru 5/19 Good Company Players: Paint Your Wagon Roger Rocka’s Dinner Theatre, 1226 N. Wishon Avenue, Fresno ...... gcplayers.com Events/Exhibits Through 20 The Clark Center: Near and Far, Landscapes by Japanese Artists 15770 Tenth Avenue, Hanford ccjac.org Through 28 Fresno Art Museum: Breakthrough 2233 North First Street, Fresno ...... fresnoartmuseum.org 2 Fresno State Ethics Center Lecture Series: Zoopolis and the Frontiers of Citizenship Fresno State, Alice Peters Auditorium, Fresno ...... fresnostate.edu/ethicscenter 3-26 Arts Visalia: Joseph Morel – Solo Exhibition in Glass 214 E. Oak Avenue, Visalia ...... artsvisalia.org 4-28 Gallery 25: Nanete Maki-Dearsan 660 Van Ness Avenue, Fresno gallery25.org

20 4-28 Spectrum Art Gallery: Gigliotti, Irwin & Mann 608 E. Olive Avenue, Fresno spectrumphotogallery.org 17 San Joaquin Valley Town Hall Lecture Series: The Next Economy and America’s Future William Saroyan Theatre, 700 M Street, Fresno ...... valleytownhall.com 17 Kegley Institute of Ethics, CSUB: What is Life Worth? – Kenneth Feinberg CSUB Doré Theatre, 9001 Stockdale Highway, Bakersfield ...... csub.edu/kie 18 Fresno State Ethics Center Lecture Series: The Importance of Aztec Philosophy Fresno State, Alice Peters Auditorium, Fresno fresnostate.edu/ethicscenter Music 7 Dukes Concert Series: Tin/Bag Jazz First Congregational Church, 5 Real Road, Bakersfield ...... fccbakersfield-ucc.org 12 Philip Lorenz Memorial Keyboard Concerts: Richard Goode Fresno State Concert Hall, 2380 E. Keats Avenue, Fresno ...... keyboardconcerts.com 13 Bakersfield Symphony Orchestra: Harmonica Alert! Rabobank Theater, 1001 Truxtun Avenue, Bakersfield bakersfieldsymphony.org 14 Bakersfield Community Concert Association: Jim Witter – Feelin’ Groovy Rabobank Theater, 1001 Truxtun Avenue, Bakersfield bakersfieldcca.org 20 Tulare County Symphony Orchestra: Masterworks VI “Mahler: The Most!” Visalia Fox Theatre, 308 West Main Street, Visalia tcsymphony.org 27-28 Fresno Philharmonic: Russian Romantics William Saroyan Theatre, 700 M Street, Fresno ...... fresnophil.org Theatre/Dance 3-4 Broadway in Fresno: Shrek The Musical William Saroyan Theatre, 700 M Street, Fresno ...... magicspace.net/fresno 10 Broadway in Fresno: Michael Flatley’s Lord of the Dance William Saroyan Theatre, 700 M Street, Fresno ...... magicspace.net/fresno 13-14 Bakersfield Music Theatre: The Five Divas The Harvey Auditorium, 1341 G. Street, Bakersfield bmtstars.com 25-28 Fresno City College Theatre and Dance: City Dance, Spring Concert Fresno City College, Main Stage Theatre, Fresno ...... fresnocitycollege.edu 26 thru 5/12 The Cat is Back The Enchanted Playhouse Theatre, 307 E. Main Street, Visalia ...... enchantedplayhouse.org

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