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NPR Turns 50 Amid Reckoning In Journalis...

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Now 50 years old, NPR has grown up alongside American journalism. We take stock of some lessons learned along the way.

In this episode: Linda Wertheimer, Robert Siegel, Brooke Gladstone, Ira Glass, Michele Norris, and Andy Carvin.

Hear more from NPR's very first broadcast of All Things Considered.

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