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VPR Classical Welcomes War Zone Reporting Comes At A High Risk New On-Air Morning Host By Jeffrey A. Dvorkin Cheryl Willoughby has joined the NPR Ombudsman Vermont Public Radio family as the host Listeners like Dona Bolding Hamilton of VPR Classical’s morning program. She notice that reporters are now increasingly in came on board earlier this year, helping to danger in Iraq. They worry about the safety of launch VPR’s second network, which NPR correspondents and reporters in war provides classical music 24 hours a day. zones: Willoughby came to VPR from the I am concerned about the extreme risks to those Classical Public Radio Network in Los covering the crisis in Iraq. While the news from the Angeles, where she served as Music region is valuable, the lives of those reporting and Director and Music Programmer. Her producing are invaluable. I just want to say it is okay weekday morning program, which airs 7 with this listener if means alternative to the physical to 9 a.m., is thoughtful and passionate, and Cheryl Willoughby is presence of correspondents on the ground are found to it regularly highlights musical connections, the new weekday host get information to us. I am worried about them! Continued on page 2 on VPR Classical. Hamilton is not alone. Continued on page 5

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Programs To Celebrate The Season, Page 2 Vermont Public Radio Receives National Broadcast Award VPR News Director John Van Hoesen, left, and President and General Manager Mark Vogelzang, right, accepted the Edward R. Murrow Award for VPR’s documentary on Howard Dean from Rene Syler of CBS’s The Early Show, at the annual Radio-Televi- sion News Directors Association awards dinner in New York City. Story on page 3. RADIO FLIER

VPR Board of Directors VPR’s Holiday Programs William Alley, Greensboro James Ashley, Norwich Sunday, December 12 1 pm Christmas Around the Country Joseph Boutin, Burlington 9 pm Chanukah Lights 2 pm Hopes of Christmas with the Dale Warland Singers Nord Brue, Burlington Donna Carpenter, Moscow Sunday, December 19 3-4 pm A Christmas Carol with Willem Lange 7:30 pm A New England Christmas with Willem Lange Henry Chauncy, Jr., Andover 7 pm - 10 pm Handel’s Messiah from Disney Hall Jack Crowl, North Pomfret 8 pm Holiday Pops with Keith Lockhart & the Boston Pops Saturday, December 25 – Christmas Day Maxie Ewins, Shelburne Monday, December 20 7 am Christmas with the King’s College Choir Stan Fishkin, Chittenden 7 pm Speaking of Faith: Children and God 10 am A Vermont Christmas with Counterpoint Deborah Granquist, Weston Amy Hastings, Middlebury 8 pm Christmas with the Philadelphia Singers 11 am A Chanticleer Christmas Marie Kireker, Weybridge Tuesday, December 21 Noon A Festival of Nine Lessons and Carols Spencer Knapp, Shelburne 7 pm VPR’s Winter Solstice program Saturday, January 1 - New Year’s Day William Schubart, Hinesburg 8 pm A Paul Winter Solstice Concert 10 am The Capitol Steps New Year’s Special Fran Stoddard, Williston Dana vanderHeyden, Colchester Wednesday, December 22 Politics Takes a Holiday J. Alvin Wakefield, Mendon 7 pm A Holiday Tour with Judy Collins 11 am New Year’s Day Live from Vienna Victoria Young, Proctor 8 pm The Christmas Revels: A Celebration of the Winter Solstice For a complete Community Thursday, December 23 listing and pro- Advisory Board 7 pm Christmas with Morehouse and Spelman Glee Clubs gram descrip- Scott Atherton, Middlebury Friday, December 24 – Christmas Eve tions listen to VPR or visit Roland Adams, Hartford 10-11:30 am A Festival of Nine Lessons and Carols Zuzana Brochu, Williston vpr.net Stan Busby, Orleans Noon A Vermont Christmas with Counterpoint John Ewen, Middlebury Scott Funk, Richmond Jennifer Karson, Burlington Larry Knowles, Cornwall Ryk Loske, Barton Classical Sheila McIntyre, Castleton Marguerite Mason, Weston Host Sees Sanders Milens, Burlington Paul Myers, Peru Abby Paige, St. Johnsbury Art in Music Alan Thibault, Laval, Quebec Continued from page 1 VPR Management according to Jody Evans, President & General Manager Director of Programming for music director for five years. Arts” by Alan Rich. She is Mark Vogelzang Vice President for VPR. Willoughby is herself a fascinated by how music and Administration & Finance Willoughby worked with classical musician. She began art relate to the continuum of Christine Salembier the Classical Public Radio playing the French horn at age human development and by Vice President for Development Network since 1998 and was 9. While in college, she the depth to which music is Robin Turnau Director of Programming integral in the launch and discovered her passion for part of our lives, often in Jody Evans growth of the network. While painting, and she graduated ways we’re not aware of. Director of Engineering there she co-produced the with a B.A. degree from the An exhibited artist, she Richard Parker Director of News feature programs “Modern school of Performing and works in watercolor and John Van Hoesen Masterpieces” and “Sacred Visual Arts at the University collage with found objects. The Public Radio Center Classics.” A native of Colo- of Northern Colorado. Metal and paper are her 365 Troy Avenue rado, her broadcast career Performance and visual preferred materials. Colchester, Vermont 05446 began at KUNC-FM in arts continue to be integral to Willoughby is married with Phone: 1 (800) 639-2192 Fax: 1 (802) 655-2799 Greeley, Colorado, where she both her professional and her a family of two dogs and www.vpr.net served as an announcer and personal life. Willoughby three cats. A life-long learner, Radio Flier (USPS 468) newsletter producer for seven years. She points out that the develop- she often takes courses is published quarterly by VPR with second class postage paid then moved to Colorado ment of visual art directly ranging from conversational at Burlington, Vermont, and additional Public Radio’s KVOD-FM in parallels music throughout Spanish to French folklore to mailing offices. Radio Flier is available to all VPR supporters. Denver, where she worked as history and recommends the studio courses in comparative an announcer and assistant book “Music, Mirror of the visual art. Radio Flier Editor & Designer Stephen Mease 2 Check out the new VPR Classical Program Schedule on the Back Page RADIO FLIER Met Opera Welcomes New VPR Documentary Earns Award Vermont Public Radio has received the national Announcer In December Edward R. Murrow Award for its documentary on the for my love of opera and record of former presidential candidate Howard Dean. general manager Joseph live performance.” The one-hour documentary, Howard Dean: The Volpe has announced that Currently a classical music Vermont Years, was produced by VPR last December at Margaret Juntwait radio host at WNYC the zenith of the candidate’s popularity and momentum. will succeed Peter New York Public It examined Dean’s profession as a doctor, his early Allen as announcer Radio, Juntwait holds work in the Legislature, and his record on key issues that for the Metropoli- a degree in voice faced the state while he was governor. tan Opera Satur- from the The award, sponsored by the Radio-Television News day Afternoon School of Music. In Directors Association, is one of only 12 given to radio Radio Broadcasts addition to her work stations from small markets nationwide. In all, 53 news beginning Dec. 11. at WNYC, she has organizations won 74 awards out of an initial pool of Juntwait will be been heard on Sirius 3,182 entries. RTNDA has been honoring outstanding only the third achievements in electronic journalism with the Edward R. Margaret Juntwait Satellite Radio’s regular announcer Classical Voices and Murrow Awards since 1971. – and the first Sirius Pops channels. RTNDA is the world’s largest professional organiza- woman – to take the The Metropolitan Opera tion devoted exclusively to electronic journalism. For position in this landmark Saturday Afternoon radio more information about the awards, visit vpr.net. broadcast series that dates broadcasts are carried live on back to 1931. a network of more than 360 Explore The World Of Bach “We are delighted that stations in the United States, Margaret Juntwait will be the including VPR, and in many With VPR’s Mark Vogelzang new voice of the Met on countries around the world. Join VPR on a unique journey April our radio broadcasts series,” With over 10 million listeners 28 - May 5, 2005 to the places where Volpe said. worldwide, the series is the Bach composed his best-loved music Juntwait said, “I am longest running cultural and where it still lives today: Leipzig, honored and thrilled to program in American Dresden and Weimar, Germany. become the announcer for broadcast history. This itinerary was specially crafted what is probably the most The 2004-05 Met season by VPR President and Sunday Bach host revered live classical radio begins on Dec. 11 with Mark Vogelzang, who will accompany show in the world. I simply Verdi’s I vespri siciliani, and this expedition and share his musical can’t imagine a better focus continues through May 7. passion. You’ll hear world-class Mark Vogelzang performances at the Bach Festival Saturday Afternoon At The Opera 2005: Bach and the Future, in the places 12/11: I vespri siciliani (Verdi) where Bach himself conducted. Immerse yourself in his 12/18: Tannhauser .. (Wagner) music, performed by an exciting array of international 12/25: Kat’a Kabanova (Janacek) artists.. To request a brochure, call VPR at (800) 639-2192 1/1: Rodelinda (Handel) or download the tour brochure at vpr.net. 1/8: Otello (Verdi) 1/15: Complete Opera from Met Archives 1/22: Complete Opera from Met Archives VPR’s Sustaining Members Are Winners 1/29: Turandot (Puccini) 2/5: Pelleas et Melisande (Debussy) During the October membership drive, seven of the ` ` ` 2/12: Le nozze di Figaro (Mozart) 14 drawing prizes that were awarded went to VPR 2/19: La boheme (Puccini) ` sustaining members. Being automatically entered in all the 2/26: Nabucco (Verdi) prize drawings is just one more reason to join the more 3/5: Samson et Dalila (Saint-Saens) than 2,000 listeners who support VPR by giving a monthly 3/12: Il barbiere di Siviglia (Rossini) 3/19: Don Carlo (Verdi) contribution through their credit card or bank account. 3/26: Cavalleria rusticanna/Pagliacci Sustaining members get the satisfaction of knowing they (Mascagni/Leoncavallo) provide a continous, stable source of income for VPR. Interlude with Peter Fox Smith can be heard from 12:20 If you would like more information about becoming a sustaining p.m. to 1 p.m. Opera begins at 1 p.m. with Opera Prelude. member please call us at (800) 639-2192.

You can listen to past VPR commentaries and archived news reports at vpr.net 3 RADIO FLIER NPR Quiz Show Puts the Fun In Questions Says You! is the witty word game heard on VPR Sunday evenings at 7:30 p.m. Recorded in front of live audiences at various locations, Says You! features six panelists - divided into two teams In fact, the audience did better than the of three - that bluff, guess and expound their panelists at times, prompting Sher to quip way through the fast-paced, 30-minute “...the audience is leading 20 to nothing...” program. The show came to Vermont for Stumped panelists included public radio two evenings in September where host/ personality Tony Kahn, television host Barry producer Richard Sher and the panelists Nolan, television producer/writer Arnie bantered about a wide range of questions before a live Reisman, Ladies Home Journal columnist and WBZ-TV audience at the Woodstock Town Hall and at Saint consumer reporter Paula Lyons, public television executive Michael’s College. Members of the audience played Francine Achbar and columnist/critic Carolyn Faye Fox. If along with the panelists as the shows were recorded for you’ve never heard Says You!, you’re in for a real treat with broadcast this past October. this word-wise quiz show for public radio listeners.

• Says You! panelists Carolyn Faye Fox and Arnie Reisman (above) react to one of the questions posed during the NPR show’s visit to the Woodstock Town Hall (left). • Tony Kahn, Francine Achbar and Barry Nolan (bottom left) made up one of the Says You! teams. • Below, Steve & Jeanne Barner of West Bolton enjoyed the special VPR- sponsored visit of the quiz show.

4 Check out the new VPR Classical Program Schedule on the Back Page RADIO FLIER Danger, Stress Increase for Battlefield Journalists Continued from page 1 killed on assignment for western media organizations.” Ann Cooper is the executive director of the Commit- But is Iraq more dangerous than other wars? tee to Protect Journalists, based in New York. Cooper, a Cooper thinks in some ways it is: “As a result, news former NPR correspondent, keeps track of how danger- organizations have recognized that more training is neces- ous the job of foreign reporting has become. But she thinks sary than before. During the war in Bosnia, a lot of report- that in some ways, being a correspondent has always been ers went without any training in battlefield survival or even dangerous. basic first aid. That’s changed, and news organizations such “The danger is unbelievable. In World War II, Joe as the BBC, CNN and NPR are much more conscious of Morton was an American reporter for the Associated Press. getting reporters ready before they leave for a war zone.” He was executed by the Nazis. During the Cold War, West- Hostile Environment Training ern correspondents were often jailed behind the Iron Cur- Among American media organizations, CNN especially tain because their profession was seen as a form of espio- has been in the forefront of this preparation. CNN, Reuters nage.” and the BBC have worked with two U.K.-based companies From Protected to Vulnerable — Centurion and AKE — that have pioneered “hostile en- Cooper notes that vironment training” for during the Cold War, journalists. As well, the American reporters were BBC has borrowed sometimes declared per- freely from the battle- sona non grata and ex- field-training manual of pelled from the country. the Royal Marines. But now that the dis- Cooper thinks that tinctions between jour- more knowledge is bet- nalists and non-journal- ter than less. “News or- ists have blurred, ganizations are far more newsgathering is a much conscious of security more dangerous opera- and the post-assignment tion than it was before. psychological issues. Cooper says that in war That’s a very positive de- zones, local reporters velopment.” are even more vulner- One seasoned NPR able than American cor- NPR reporter Ivan Watson, left, shown reporting from the front lines in Afghanistan. correspondent agrees but respondents. “American thinks that more support reporters have the support of influential news organizations is needed — both before and after the assignment. backing them up,” she says. “The local reporters are seen by ‘More dangerous...’ the factions as expendable.” “Iraq is more dangerous than other wars,” says the re- Because regional conflicts proliferated after the Cold War’s porter. “There is no anonymity to being on assignment there. end, there is more fighting now than there used to be. Danger If you are on the street, you are identified as a foreign re- is increasingly a daily fact of life. More journalists are being porter. If you are in an armored vehicle, that’s an obvious injured and killed now than any time since Vietnam. giveaway. Journalists are seen as targets of opportunity for Cooper adds that the availability of newer and more kidnapping by the insurgents. It’s a lot like Beirut was in the portable technologies has allowed reporters to get much closer 1980s.” to the fighting. Satellite phones allow reporters to file from Some of that needed support comes from an organiza- the front lines. More live battle reports mean that reporters tion called The DART Center for Journalism and Trauma. are being injured at a much higher rate than ever before. Bruce Shapiro is the field director of the Eastern US for As American foreign correspondents get closer to the DART. He says the need to support journalists is increasing, mayhem, so do freelancers and locals hired to assist the as more news organizations approach DART for help and reporters as drivers, translators and “fixers.” advice — about both pre- and post-war assignments. Increased Dangers for ‘Media Workers’ “We are seeing a lot more post-battlefield stress, espe- These “local hires”— also known as “media workers” cially among younger reporters who often come straight from — are also in harm’s way, Cooper emphasizes. “In Iraq, it’s regional newspapers or TV stations into Iraq,” Shapiro says. often too dangerous for Western reporters to go out to gather “Photographers and radio reporters are particularly stressed, the information,” she says. “Iraqis who assist Westerners are since they can be out in the field for weeks or months with- now being injured and killed in record numbers. out ever getting back to their newsrooms.” “The numbers are appalling: in 2003, 13 journalists were “Some of the most vulnerable are also some of the killed in Iraq. 12 were foreign correspondents and one was most experienced reporters,” says Shapiro. “We don’t always Iraqi. So far in 2004, 20 journalists have been killed. 14 of get tougher. We have limits.” them were Iraqis. Nine Iraqi media workers have also been

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