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Sunday, January 31, 2016

Living The Dream

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The Iowa caucuses are tomorrow night, and I'll be covering them for NPR. I'll be at the Hillary Clinton caucus night party reporting...
Friday, February 20, 2015

The Letter That Kicked Off A Radio Career

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Over the summer, I got a chance to guest host Weekend Edition Saturday. It was one of those moment where you realize your life has come ful...

The Biggest Mistake I've Ever Made?

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I'm not sure this is truly the biggest mistake I have ever made. But it still pains me to think about it some 15 years later. A lot of...
Friday, February 6, 2015

How I Found My #PubRadioVoice (Spoiler alert: I'm still working on it)

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At NPR, on air and online we’ve been having a conversation about #PubRadioVoice . It started with this essay from Chenjerai Kumanyika and t...
Monday, December 22, 2014

An Open Letter to Young Journalists

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This didn't start out as an open letter. In fact, this is taken pretty much directly from a note I sent a young journalist with whom I ...
Sunday, April 13, 2014

How not to screw up one of the most basic jobs of a radio producer/intern…Also known as everything I did wrong when I was first starting out.

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This is known in the radio world as a tape sync or double-ender. Here’s how it works: The interviewer is on the phone asking questions, wh...
Sunday, August 25, 2013

Insta-Photos

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Sunday, April 24, 2011

THIS is NPR

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Recently, the promotions team at NPR asked us to write up little 25 second pieces about why we work at NPR (or something like that).  So,...
Monday, August 30, 2010

Journalist in Residence

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This fall I'll spend the better part of a week at the UC Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism as a "journalist in residence....
Friday, December 25, 2009

The Other Tamara Keith

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The other day, I got a message on Facebook from myself. Well, at least that's what it looked like. I had gone 30 years thinking I had ...