Susan Stamberg, first woman to host a national news program, dies at age 87

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Susan Stamberg, a “founding mother” of National Public Radio and the first female broadcaster to host a national news program, has died. She was 87.

Stamberg died Thursday, NPR reported. It did not provide a cause of death.

Stamberg joined NPR in the early 1970s when it was getting off the ground as a network of radio stations across the country. During her career, she interviewed thousands of people, from prominent politicians and artists to the less well-known like White House chefs and people who work behind the scenes in Hollywood.

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