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Headlines | Inside WAMU 88.5 | Morning Edition | All Things Considered
Diane Rehm, host
An update on recommendations to the Food and Drug Administration to restrict acetaminophen and ban the popular painkillers Percocet and Vicodin because of possible risks of overdose and liver damage.
From 1892 to 1924, Ellis Island witnessed the greatest mass immigration of people the world has ever seen. The story of the tiny New York Island that served as a gateway for twelve million immigrants.
Kojo Nnamdi, host
The Washington Times has long lived in the shadow of D.C.'s other daily newspaper, The Washington Post. In 2008, the Times tapped John Solomon, a former reporter for the Post and the Associated Press, to lead the paper. We talk with Solomon about the local and national media landscapes and where he sees the Times fitting into them.
It's your turn to set the agenda - whether it's the withdrawal of U.S. troops from Iraq or the surge of new safety concerns about the Metro rail system.
For decades, the movement to strike a healthy work-life balance focused on women. But a new generation of young men is adding a Y chromosome to the debate. Millenial men now want to share both the bread-winning and the child-rearing, and in fact report higher levels of work-life conflict than do women. Kojo examines the concerns of young working men and looks at how employers are beginning to respond.
David Furst, host
Although events will continue throughout the weekend on the mall, the final evening concert of this year's Smithsonian Folklife Festival will be held on Friday, July 3rd. The concert will bring together musicians from the Las Americas 'Music in Latino Culture' program... with a musician from the Wales program. It's called 'Strings Crossing Continents' - featuring Grupo Cimarron from Colombia and Catrin Finch, a harpist from Wales. We're joined by Daniel Sheehy, Acting Director of the Smithsonian Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage... and by harpist, Carlos Rojas, leader of Grupo Cimarron.
Congratulations to the WAMU 88.5 newsroom and The Kojo Nnamdi Show for their Chesapeake Associated Press Broadcasters Association awards, which were presented June 6. The newsroom won the "Enterprise Reporting" category for Kavitha Cardoza's look at "Global Real Estate in Your Backyard," while The Kojo Nnamdi Show took home the award for "Best Talk Show" for its coverage of the Supreme Court's ruling on the D.C. gun ban and won the "Public Affairs" category for its "Tech Tuesday" segments.
Diane Rehm, host of WAMU 88.5 and NPR's The Diane Rehm Show, addressed a gathering of more than 300 campus leaders after receiving a Woman of Distinction Award at the National Conference for College Women Student Leaders on June 4. The award, which is presented annually at the conference, honors women who have had extraordinary accomplishments in their professions or their communities and who represent inspiring role models for women student leaders.
On June 4, WAMU 88.5's The Kojo Nnamdi Show accepted a Gracie Award for "Outstanding Public Affairs Program" in a local market. The Gracie Awards, established in 1975, are presented by American Women in Radio and Television to honor excellence in all types of media created for, by and about women and to encourage the realistic and multifaceted portrayal of women. The show won for "Women and Public Policy: Selections from The Kojo Nnamdi Show."
WAMU 88.5 has won a My Source Community Impact Award for Engagement from the Corporation for Public Broadcasting for The Kojo Nnamdi Show's programs focusing on public schools in the Washington, D.C., region. The awards were created by CPB to recognize stations for their commitment and responsiveness to their communities and for providing innovative on-air, online and in-person services that have measurable results.
WAMU 88.5's The Diane Rehm Show has again made the list of the "Top 10 Most Powerful Programs on Public Radio," according to the fall 2008 study by Audience Research Analysis.
WAMU's Bluegrass Country announced today the release of its new iPhone application, which enables listeners to directly access Bluegrass Country's digital music stream with the touch of a button on the iPhone desktop. It is the first and only all-bluegrass music application in the iTunes Store.
This station could not exist without the support of its listeners and members. In this short video message, Diane Rehm talks about the "public" in public radio: you.
Break out the flip-flops, summer is here. Fritz Hahn writes about nightlife for the Washington Post. Speaking with David Furst he says the weekend pool parties at the Capitol Skyline Hotel are some of the coolest summer happenings in the city.
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