50 and forward with NPR

How NPR has developed in the newsroom and changed over time

• Fred Vigeant
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  Fred Vigeant is WITF's Director of Programming and Promotions for TV and Radio. Fred manages the schedules for our radio and television platforms. He also analyzes audience research and manages the public affairs program Smart Talk. Previously, Fred was at WRVO in Oswego, NY for 12 years serving in various roles including Program Director and before that Operations Manager. Fred graduated from the State University of New York College at Oswego with a B.A. in Mass Communications and Broadcasting.

This month NPR celebrates the 50th anniversary of the launch of All Things Considered. The news magazine program has been a fixture on WITF airing weekdays between 4pm and 6:30pm and weekends at 5pm.

NPR grew up alongside a post-Watergate journalism ethos that shaped the media industry for decades.

In this special hosted by Audie Cornish and featuring other NPR journalists, we’ll unpack that ethos: how it developed in the newsroom and changed over time, through today.

Analytical, critical and forward-thinking, this program tells the story of NPR’s history in the context of the growth of modern media.

Join us for Fifty And Forward: An Anniversary Celebration Of NPR on WITF Sunday May 28 at 9am & 7pm. More information on 50 years of NPR….

Sometimes, your mornings are just too busy to catch the news beyond a headline or two. Don’t worry. The Morning Agenda has got your back. Each weekday morning, host Tim Lambert will keep you informed, amused, enlightened and up-to-date on what’s happening in central Pennsylvania and the rest of this great commonwealth.

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