Summer 2008 Vermont Public Radio’s Newsletter RADIO FLIER The Story Behind NPR's Earthquake Coverage By Karen Everhart Current newspaper

t was purely by chance that a team of veteran NPR journalists was working in Chengdu, the capital of China’s Sichuan province, on May I12 when a 7.9-magnitude earthquake, its epicenter just 50 miles away, killed some 70,000 people and left millions home- less. “You never want to feel you’re lucky to be somewhere when a huge disas- ter strikes,” said All Things Considered producer Andrea Hsu. She was one of four NPR journalists in Chengdu preparing for a week of special broad- casts. When the earthquake struck, the All Things Considered co-host Melissa Block experienced and then reported on the 7.9-magnitude tiny news operation she had set up in a earthquake that struck China in May. (2008 NPR photo by Andrea Hsu) Sheraton hotel became the only Western broadcast news source for coverage of They were checking sound levels when shaking.” The segment left an indelible the disaster, giving listeners emotionally the glass in the window frames started impression of sudden disruption and wrenching firsthand accounts of the rattling. Block’s dawning recognition. devastation and human grief wrought by Their recording of the quake, later “Oh, my goodness! We’re in the the disaster. streamed in its entirety on NPR.org, middle of an earthquake,” she said. The pastor’s assistant stood up with The quake struck while ATC co- captured what Block later described as a surreal moment: a loud rumbling, a a startled look on his face and ran from host Melissa Block and Hsu were in a the room, and the pastor ran after him, seminary interviewing a pastor for a tense pause and Block wondering aloud, piece on religious life in modern China. “What’s going on? The whole building is Continued on page 5 NPR Correspondent Examines the Media avid Folkenflik A: When I first went to wise have been hidden to me. covers the world of college, I found the campus Professors of Asian studies, Dmedia, particularly pretty overwhelming. A friend volleyball players, student the news media, for Morning suggested I try writing col- activists, labor organizers, uni- Edition, All Things Considered, umns for the undergraduate versity administrators. Almost and Day to Day. He also writes newspaper, The Cornell Daily uniformly, people were willing the Media Circus column Sun, because, as he put it, to take my questions patiently for NPR.org. Before coming “you’re pretty mouthy.” I en- and explain why they did what to NPR in November 2004, joyed that – but I was quickly they did. Folkenflik was a reporter for dragooned onto the reporting Over the next four years, The Baltimore Sun, where he staff. that’s how I gained a kind spent more than a decade. It was a revelation. A of mastery over campus life reporter’s notebook served – and it’s why I’ve loved jour- Q: What sparked your as a passport to realms of nalism ever since. NPR reporter David Folkenflik interest in journalism? campus life that would other- Continued on page 4 RADIO FLIER Meet VPR's Melody Bodette As Morning Edition producer, Melody Bodette helps prepare newscasts and edits and produces interviews and news stories for VPR – all before most of us are even awake! VPR Melody joined VPR in 2005 as a part-time production assis- 94.3 FM Bennington tant for Switchboard and then Vermont Edition before taking over 94.5 FM Brattleboro* 107.9 FM Burlington as Morning Edition producer in 2007. Before coming to VPR, she 92.5 FM Manchester* worked in the editorial and news departments at The Burlington 95.3 FM Middlebury* Free Press as a freelance writer, and in public relations. 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Hospitality Alive and Well in the Green Mountains By Jim Woodard about the urban ex-pat who thought ing rides up through Canada via VPR Listener it okay to sleep with his windows Morse's Line; or the local breakfast n the morning of my open. spot where Deb doesn't ask, but 33rd birthday in Decem- But no woodsman came chop- simply says, "Firehouse? French ber 2004, I awoke with ping, and I bought my own chain- toast? Over medium?"; or the owl O saw. in my woods I've unimaginatively uncharacteristic morning clarity, thinking: "This is the year I move to How quickly my Vermont dubbed "Hootie"; and yeah, even Vermont." rewarded me: with neighbors those kids who nailed my mailbox I landed in the woods of Un- eager to meet me, showing up with with a giant pumpkin last year. Nice I landed in derhill in the fall with my dogs and home-baked cookies; with the first shot, guys. the woods of cats, having otherwise shed my life of many breathtaking full moons Honestly, it's challenging to Underhill in in Boston: a home, a network of over my snowy meadow, turning live anywhere, isn't it? Every place friends, a job, a partner. I lay sleep- the night-world luminously blue; has its own inherent strengths and the fall with less in my bed those first few weeks, with the rigors of mud season, and disappointing drawbacks. The key my dogs and each growl from my dog convinc- the gentle ribbings from my new is how we, as a community, choose cats, having ing me that a crazed woodsman neighbor-friends who mocked my to respond to either. And that's the otherwise would chop through my window brownie-batter driveway, but then thing about my Vermont: it's not screen with an axe – certain overkill, showed up on a tractor to grade it really mine. It's our Vermont, of shed my life in hindsight – and ridiculously I for me; with summers of cycling which I feel blessed and grateful in Boston... imagined a legendary story emerging with my buddy Dave, whose home- to be a part. So thanks, Vermont. brewed beer rewards us follow- Thanks for welcoming me in." Hometown Concerns About Fairness for All By Kate Cadreact ing community. But it is becoming privilege of serving the community. VPR Listener a hardship to be an active member Their children will attend private have lived in Milton, Vermont of the community, due to time and schools, while public schools suffer my entire life. I grew up on a personal energy constraints. budget defeats. Their children will farm in the 50s and 60s, and When I was growing up, my attend college, while it will become I parents belonged to the Grange, were more and more difficult for the It is married a farmer after graduating from college. I'm currently a reg- 4-H leaders, schoolboard members, average Vermont student to pay becoming a istered nurse. Most of the people among other things. They were for college. The average working hardship to I work with find it amusing that I building community, and they were Vermonter will not be at the table be an active still live in the same town where I working in their community. of plenty as the cost of living here member grew up. Yet my concern is for the Today, I struggle to participate in escalates. We will become more and broader community of Vermont. my community. I drive out of town to more marginalized. People who have of the When I see home prices go to work. I don't know my neigh- money to spare will continue to come community, soaring, I worry about how the bors as well as I might. And I may not into Vermont and buy once-work- due to time average Vermont family will afford know if they are in crisis and need ing farms, creating mini-estates and and personal housing. I contemplate what these help, until perhaps it is too late. thus contributing to the decline of families will do in the wake of high My overriding concern is that community and vibrant living. In energy fuel prices, rising food prices and only the highly paid and wealthy my Vermont, vibrant living should constraints. the ever increasing taxes. individuals will have adequate hous- include everyone. Today we hear a lot about build- ing, heat, nutritional food and the looking for a news story or music playlist? visit VPR.net. 3 RADIO FLIER David Folkenflik Watches the Media Continued from page 1 strengthening its news reports instead of every seat in the arena, so readers could fig- Q: Why were you drawn to public making deep cuts. ure out what the view would look like when radio? Q: What do you believe public radio they bought tickets. Every single band A: I’ve always been around it. My offers the listener? based in town – and almost all that came parents and their friends and my friends’ A: When it comes to news, I think through town – would give the paper’s web parents tended to listen in the car or public radio doesn’t treat it as a commod- site a few songs. The paper had built up a around the kitchen. I found it a resource ity, to milk every last drop of drama out free library of thousands of songs. All of that helped me make sense of what was of it – and hence every last ratings point. this and a lot more was there, and at no happening in the world and a place to hear Instead, it’s handled as a necessary part cost, available at the click of a mouse. stories that made me want just to stop and of civic life that still should avoid being That said, I also really enjoyed doing listen. When I finally got my own car, I of- a chore. At its best, NPR offers reports a story on the stock-picking, chair-toss- ten tuned to public radio stations for music and shows that prod, provoke, engage and ing, rant-venting CNBC host Jim Cramer. and for news. entertain listeners. It was great fun – and I think it was good But as a longtime print reporter, it Q: What was the most interesting radio, too. never occurred to me that I could work assignment you’ve been on? Q: What’s it like to be casting a here – until after Joan Kroc made her very A: I did a piece back in 2005 about a critical eye on the media – from inside generous donation to NPR. I wrote about small paper in Lawrence, Kansas, and how the media itself ? that for my paper, The Baltimore Sun. The what they were doing to build a multi- A: Well, there’s no other way to do it if gift enabled NPR to create a series of media approach to the news far exceeded you’re a reporter. You have to set aside, as new reporter slots, and a job for a media anything done by papers 20 times their best you can, the fact that these are your correspondent was one of them. It was a size or larger. The ownership was plowing friends or peers or competitors and simply thrilling idea – that I could work at a place much of its profits back into the paper report on them. I’ve found some journal- that I felt set the standard for present- and its new online enterprises – and these ists prove to be just as thin-skinned or ing and contextualizing the news for its guys were figuring out ways to supplement defensive as anyone else. Others turn out listeners. And as newspapers struggled, I traditional reporting. So, for example, when to be capable of great grace and determi- liked the idea of joining a place that was a new basketball arena opened at Kansas nation in pursuit of a worthy story. interested in investing in its journalism and University, staffers took pictures from

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The suals for the TV ground is undulating under my feet,” Block reports. A May 22 says, her voice rising to a slightly higher pitch Washington Post sto- than usual. ry on NPR’s China “I was in shock, but I knew that I needed coverage began: to capture it on tape,” Block recalled. “It was “For more than a NPR reporter Melissa Block and producer Brendan Banaszak survey the a natural impulse, since we were rolling, to week, some of the earthquake rubble in May. (2008 NPR Photo by Andrea Hsu) describe what I was hearing and seeing and most compelling feeling. It lasted a long time.” news coverage on When the couple cried after receiving Hsu felt “stunned and actually quite TV has been radio news coverage.” news that their family members had been scared,” she recalled nearly a month later. “Everywhere you went, there was a story found and they were all dead, Block didn’t “Melissa and I were standing quite close to be told,” Hsu said. On May 14, a young try to hide the raw emotion of the moment. together because we had the mikes going. I Chinese couple invited Hsu and Block to join “You can hear it in my voice that I was broken thought, ‘Wow — she’s narrating this.’” them during a recovery operation at their col- up,” she said. The quake lasted about three minutes, lapsed apartment building, where they hoped The ATC team has returned home, back without apparent damage to the seminary their toddler son and his grandparents would to their regular lives, but the Chinese people building, so Block and Hsu said goodbye be found alive under the rubble. The desper- they met are still in their minds. Block thinks to the pastor, gathered their gear and began ate parents, Wang Wei and Fu Guanyu, clung “all the time” about the couple who lost their walking back to their hotel. As soon as they to excavation machinery that was blocking toddler and their parents. got a cell phone line, they phoned the story to a road in Dujiangyan. Hsu got out of the Hsu can’t shake the memory of arriving NPR’s news- car and spoke at a middle school where the parents waited cast unit. Later with them. for word about their kids, she said. “It was they found She recalled, probably the most horrible thing I’ve ever Robert Sie- “They spoke seen.” gel, ATC co- very quickly Turpin recalled a visit to the village of host — who and then said, Red Flag, which Siegel visited twice to report fled down 27 ‘Come with on its recovery. When NPR’s team arrived flights of ho- us.’” for the second time, a village woman held an tel stairs dur- D u r i n g umbrella over Turpin’s head, shielding him ing the quake the daylong from the blistering sun. — producer recovery work, “We were incredibly moved by the open- Art Silverman “they seemed ness and generosity of the people we met and translator very willing to during the time that we were there,” Turpin Xiaoyu Xie in All Things Considered host Robert Siegel interviews earthquake have us there,” said. “It was so remarkable that, when every- a stadium near victims. (2008 NPR Photo by Art Silverman) Hsu said. At one had every right to not be thinking about the hotel. one point, po- anyone else’s welfare, they were so solicitous “We all knew what we needed to do,” lice and military officials arrived on the scene of visitors who had come to ask them about said Chris Turpin, ATC executive producer. and advised the couple, “Don’t trust the their tragedy.” “We had to try to get out and record and foreign media,” Hsu said. Translator Philip find out what had happened and how many He defused the tension. To explore NPR's coverage of the China earth- people were likely to be affected.” “I was amazed that the officials didn’t quake, please visit NPR.org. Flight cancellations delayed reporters ask us to leave,” Hsu said. “The family could from other Western news organizations from have asked us to leave at any time.” getting to the quake zone. CNN and ABC But they didn’t. Throughout the day, Excerpted with permission from Current, the na- aired Block’s narration of the earthquake Hsu, Block and the translator recorded key tional newspaper about public television and radio. and subsequent reporting. Siegel described moments in the long recovery effort. The complete article is online at www.current.org.

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6 Check out VPR's website and listen online at VPR.net. RADIO FLIER Dear VPR... I really appreciate Jane Lindholm’s inter- view style and the high level of preparation Reactionline and understanding that she brings to each guest/interview/issue. I am constantly im- We all know that you can not please all Please consider [rebroadcasting Vermont pressed with how thoroughly she seems to be of the people all the time, but I am so tired of Edition at 7 p.m.]. I am one of the working educated about any given topic or guest. And this senseless chatter. The news is repeated in- folks who cannot tune in throughout the day; I can NEVER figure out how she personally cessantly, ad infinitum again and again, some- but only when I get home. I have anguished feels about a political or controversial issue. I times with a different accent, but the same old over the loss of Switchboard and frustrated also very much appreciate that she does not shy news. I urge you to go back to the old layout, to not hear the information and discussions away from posing difficult or uncomfortable and add all music classical for those who don't Switchboard had provided. questions to her guests if it helps to clarify want the mix. Maybe I am the only one who is Irene Barna, Middlebury an issue – she does it very professionally and disappointed, but why not have a clear, simple with graciousness. Her work is enjoyed and survey to get our collective opinion. I came over to New England in March her effort is noticed! Jim Walker, Arlington with a group of friends to ski in Killington. Ann Parker, Walden On the days I couldn't ski I listened exclusively I cannot impress enough how valuable to VPR or NHPR all day. It was total bliss. It Last year I emailed to voice my concern VPR is. I so enjoy the programming on 89.5. was like listening to BBC Radio 4 but with over the change in programming and the You have the best ever of radio, TV and any a community element attached and a gentle loss of classical music in our listening area. other media anywhere in the USA, and the sense of humour which was enchanting. I Shortly after I emailed, I received a very nice, world, as far as that goes. But for Vermont, it am convinced that your services are essential helpful message from a VPR staff member. I is priceless. Thank you, VPR! to the public of your states and so, even as a have been so busy over the past year, I never Fred Patterson, Windsor Brit, I feel it my duty to support public radio in returned the call. Recently I purchased a San- Vermont. I now go to sleep at night listening gean HD tuner for our stereo system. I really I've been listening to VPR Classical more to VPR over the internet and remain thankful enjoy the VPR Classical station! It took some the past week. The programming seems pretty to you all for providing the service. time to get used to the new format. Change dull. Same old same old. Beethoven symphonies, Gerald Welsby, Manchester, UK is difficult for some, like me. VPR Classical is Brandenburgs, Vivaldi, etc. Seems like every- great though. Thank you so much. thing is something I've heard a hundred times I'm still reeling over the loss of 107.9 to Michael Gibbard, Mendon before. Please give the classical top 100 a rest essentially BBC talk radio. I used to cruise and give us more variety, yes even challenge. the length of the state listening and felt per- I am compelled to tell you that The Story Stephen Campbell, Lyme, NH fectly comfortable with the previous balance is my favorite program. I have been listening of music and talk. Now, I cannot rely to any to public radio since college and your program I still am not in favor of the talk/music degree on my beloved classical music. I am is my all-time favorite! I just feel so good, sad, split, but as VPR has decided to go that route, disappointed that VPR seemed to enter this excited, touched, sensitive, emotional, worried, thank you much for including the BBC on the new project without due consideration to uplifted, educated, opened...well, you get the classical station! I have rather lost confidence this problem. idea! Thank you for having a show that focuses and interest in NPR news, so I am grateful for Bruce Wilder, Morrisville on people- individual and collective - and real, the BBC at 5 a.m. on the talk station and the down-to-earth experiences. hourly updates. Katie Falconer, Morristown Karen Stewart, Barnard Program Director Jody Evans Heads to Public Radio in Austin, Texas Vermont Public Radio says goodbye this include the development of VPR Classical, month to VPR Program Director Jody Evans, which culminated in VPR's evolution into two who leaves to become program director at distinct services last year. public radio station KUT in Austin, Texas. Jody currently serves as Chair of the Jody joined VPR in 1998 as a producer and Board of Directors for the Public Radio Pro- was named Director of Programming in 1999. gram Directors Association and is a regular Her oversight of VPR's multiple program advisor to national programs from NPR, schedules, marketing, on-air fundraising and American Public Media and Public Radio broadcast services has helped VPR become International. one of the most listened-to public radio net- Jody's experience, talent and vision have works in the country. helped make VPR a leader in public radio, and Jody's many accomplishments at VPR she will be missed.

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