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  NPR : Linda Wertheimer
As NPR's senior national correspondent, Linda Wertheimer travels the country and the globe for NPR News, bringing her unique insights and wealth of experience to bear on the day's top news stories.
Wertheimer traveled the country with major presidential candidates, covered state presidential primaries and the general elections, and regularly reported from Congress on the major events of the day -- from the Watergate impeachment hearings to the Reagan Revolution to historic tax reform legislation to the Iran-Contra affair.
Wertheimer was named in 1997 as one of the top 50 journalists in Washington by Washingtonian Magazine and in 1998 as one of America's 200 most influential women by Vanity Fair.
www.npr.org /templates/story/story.php?storyId=1931801   (589 words)

  
 Wertheimer, Max - HighBeam Encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
WERTHEIMER, MAX [Wertheimer, Max], 1880-1943, German psychologist, b.
Wertheimer came to the United States in 1933, shortly before the Nazis seized power in Germany.
Wertheimer's discovery (1910-12) of the phi phenomenon (concerning the illusion of motion) gave rise to the influential school of Gestalt psychology.
www.encyclopedia.com /doc/1E1-wertheim.html   (363 words)

  
 Linda Wertheimer Takes on New Assignment (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab1.isi.jhu.edu)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
Wertheimer will travel the country and the globe for NPR News, bringing her unique insights and experience to reporting major stories, events, trends and encounters in the world of politics, politicians, issues and institutions.
Wertheimer is one of the original staff members of NPR, having joined the organization in 1971 shortly after it came into existence.
Wertheimer is a graduate of Wellesley College and holds honorary degrees from Colby College, Wheaton College and Illinois Wesleyan University.
www.npr.org.cob-web.org:8888 /about/press/011210.lwertheimer.html   (716 words)

  
 American Journalism Review
Cue Linda Wertheimer: "Polls have closed in 17 states," she says, reminding listeners that this could be the closest presidential election ever.
Wertheimer notes that legal challenges have been launched already, and later in the program, listeners are told, we'll hear from Scott Simon, stationed at a bowling alley in Wisconsin.
Wertheimer, who has been with NPR since its start in 1971 and has covered elections since 1980 or '76 (she's not sure), will try to sneak a few brownies into the studio, just in case she can't dash out for food.
www.ajr.org /Article.asp?id=3780   (1169 words)

  
 BrightSight Group presents Linda Wertheimer   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
Linda Wertheimer, one of the nation's most recognizable and respected voices, served as a host of NPR's All Things Considered from 1989 - 2002.
Currently, NPR's senior national correspondent, Linda travels the country and the globe for NPR News, bringing her unique insights and wealth of experience to bear on the day's top news stories.
Wertheimer, named in 1997 as one of the top 50 journalists in Washington by Washingtonian Magazine and in 1998 as one of America's 200 most influential women by Vanity Fair, has received numerous other journalism awards, including awards from the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, from American Women in Radio/TV, and from the American Legion.
www.brightsightgroup.com /speakers/speaker_132.html   (499 words)

  
 Wertheimer   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
Wertheimer, senior host of National Public Radio (NPR)'s "All Things Considered," draws on more that 20 years of political reporting experience to provide an insider's view of Washington, the political process and significant national issues.
Wertheimer edited "Listening to America: 25 Year in the Life of a Nation," a collection of NPR interviews and essays spanning the network's life.
Wertheimer was honored with a special Alfred I. Du Pont-Columbia University Citation for her coverage of the 1978 Panama Canal Treaty debates.
wupa.wustl.edu /asmbly/bio/Wertheimer.htm   (197 words)

  
 Highbeam Encyclopedia - Search Results for Wertheimer,
It had its foundations in the Gestalt psychology of Max Wertheimer, Wolfgang Köhler, and Kurt Koffka, and in the work of Jean Piaget, who studied intellectual development in children.
Gestalt [Gerform], school of psychology that interprets phenomena as organized wholes rather than as aggregates of distinct parts, maintaining that the whole is greater than the sum of its parts.
Thomas Wertheimer Appointed Director of Vishay and Chairman of Its Audit Committee Effective May 1, 2004.
www.encyclopedia.com /SearchResults.aspx?Q=Wertheimer,   (415 words)

  
 Linda Wertheimer
Wertheimer draws on more than 20 years of political reporting experience to give you a special perspective on what’s happening in our nation’s capital and what it means to you.
Wertheimer edited Listening to America: 25 Years in the Life of a Nation, an entertaining, enlightening and often moving collection of NPR interviews and essays spanning the network’s life.
Wertheimer was honored with a special Alfred I. du Pont-Columbia University Citation for her outstanding coverage of the historic 1978 Panama Canal Treaty debates.
www.voicesinc.com /Pages/wertheimer.html   (472 words)

  
 Columbia Missourian - NPR figure tells of listening to America   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
Wertheimer, NPR’s senior national correspondent, spoke Monday night at a packed Cornell Auditorium on MU’s campus as a part of the Lloyd B. Thomas lecture and performance series kicking off MU’s Arts and Science week.
Wertheimer has covered elections for the past three decades with NPR, reporting on four presidential elections, eight congressional elections, 10 presidential nomination conventions and 12 election nights.
Wertheimer spoke of her recent experiences in various states talking with Democratic voters about their possible candidates for president.
www.columbiamissourian.com /news/story.php?ID=5976   (430 words)

  
 Mail Tribune News - NPR fans can consider Wertheimer in person
Wertheimer, 56, acknowledges what many listeners suspect: She has the world's greatest job.
Wertheimer was NPR's congressional correspondent in the early 1970s.
Wertheimer received an American Women in Radio/TV award for a story on illegal abortions in 1992.
www.mailtribune.com /archive/99/june99/6599n5.htm   (482 words)

  
 Linda Wertheimer to Speak December 6
Wertheimer’s appearance is sponsored by Mount Holyoke and “The Spirit of Women,” part of the Women’s Health Program of Distinction at Baystate Health System.
From 1974 to1979, she was an award-winning correspondent covering national politics in the United States and Congress; in 1976, she became the first woman to anchor network coverage of a presidential nominating convention and election.
Wertheimer was appointed an All Things Considered host in 1989.
www.mtholyoke.edu /offices/comm/csj/113001/wertheimer.shtml   (324 words)

  
 NPR's Linda Wertheimer to Speak at Bowdoin College, Campus News (Bowdoin)
Wertheimer has been with NPR since its inception in 1971, covering politics and the U.S. Congress.
Wertheimer anchored live coverage of those hearings and special call-in sessions during the Persian Gulf War.
Wertheimer won a special Alfred I. du Pont-Columbia University Citation for her coverage of the 1978 Panama Canal Treaty debates, which ran for 37 days and often called for as many as 10 consecutive hours of live reporting.
www.bowdoin.edu /news/archives/1bowdoincampus/000512.shtml   (419 words)

  
 Collegian 1/20/04 - News
Wertheimer, who has more than thirty years of experience as a media leader, fit the bill in a number of ways.
Through her work with NPR, Wertheimer has covered every major congressional news story since Watergate, including the House Judiciary Committee’s hearing on the impeachment of former President Richard Nixon, major elections, historic tax reform legislation and the Iran-Contra affair.
Wertheimer joined NPR at the network’s inception and was the director of its flagship newsmagazine, “All Things Considered,” starting with its debut in 1971.
www.cameron.edu /collegian/20jan04/news_wertheimer.html   (570 words)

  
 Panel Session: Informing Genetics Policy:
Linda Wertheimer: Bruce Jennings, there is the literary lens view of genetics expressed by you earlier, based on such popular literature as Frankenstein and Nineteen Eighty-four.
Linda Wertheimer: I have gotten the impression that there is considerable hostility towards genetic research, especially among people of color.
Linda Wertheimer: One of the alarming things that does happen when the public gets to make decisions is the advertising strategies over propositions that cause the public to be more confused.
www.sph.umich.edu /genpolicy/initial/conferenceproceedings/panel.html   (4206 words)

  
 ...........Michael Pollan...........
WERTHEIMER: Now this, of course, is not the first two food fads that the United States has fallen for.
So it's a wonderful thing in some ways, but the downside is that there is this vacuum into which steps crackpots and experts and nutritionists and food marketers who are able to sway us.
WERTHEIMER: Now I've been talking to a lot of voters who keep telling me that they want all the candidates to have a plan.
www.michaelpollan.com /press.php?id=11   (1019 words)

  
 Great American - New Mexico   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
Linda Wertheimer was born in Carlsbad, North Dakota.
Linda has received numerous journalism awards, including a Corporation for Public Broadcasting award for her work on the Iran-Contra Affair, an American Women in Radio/TV award for her story “Illegal Abortion”, and an Alfred I. duPont-Columbia University award for her 37 days of coverage of the Senate Panama Canal Treaty debates.
Linda has also been named one of the top 50 journalists by Washington Magazine and one of America’s 200 most influential women by Vanity Fair.
epics.ecn.purdue.edu /abiwt/work/GAW/Newmexico.html   (188 words)

  
 NPR - LEFT BEHIND
WERTHEIMER: In the first book, the Rapture occurs and we're introduced to the leading characters in the novels: an airline pilot, Rayford Steele, and a reporter, Buck Williams, who are flying over the Atlantic when a stewardess comes to the forward cabin to tell Steele that some of the passengers on their 747 have disappeared.
WERTHEIMER: Part of the attraction of the "Left Behind" novels is that by starting after the believers have been scooped up to heaven, the books are about the sinners still on Earth.
WERTHEIMER: The other complaint is that readers gallop through the books very quickly and think they ought to be either longer or come out more frequently.
www.pretribulationrapture.com /pretrib/lahaye4.htm   (1236 words)

  
 n i l e M e d i a . c o m   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
Such journalistic scepticism is admirable, of course, except that you do not apply it at all to claims from the Pentagon which on numerous occasions in the past, oh say thirty years, have proven to be utter, contemptible lies.
Linda never asked, "do you have any confirmation of that, Tom?" It is just assumed that The United States Government Always Tells The Truth, Especially When Arabs Are Concerned.
Throughout, Tom and Linda referred repeatedly to the "no-fly zones," at no point informing listeners that these are unilaterally imposed creations of the United States with no standing in international law.
www.nilemedia.com /Topics/Letters/2001/Feb/NPR_US_attack.html   (585 words)

  
 Journalist Linda Wertheimer will Deliver 2003 Commencement Address
Wertheimer, a Wellesley alumna from the class of 1965, is a familiar voice to listeners of National Public Radio (NPR) where she has worked for more than 30 years, currently as senior national correspondent.
The recipient of numerous industry and professional awards, she is the author of Listening to America: Twenty-five Years in the Life of a Nation as Heard on National Public Radio (1995, Houghton Mifflin).
Wertheimer was a featured panelist at Wellesley's 125th Anniversary conference on alumnae achievement and women's leadership in April 2001.
www.wellesley.edu /PublicAffairs/Releases/2003/030403.html   (312 words)

  
 Fairfield University :: Linda Wetheimer, NPR senior national correspondent, is next at Fairfield University's Open ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
Linda Wertheimer, senior national correspondent for National Public Radio and former host of the award-winning news magazine, "All Things Considered," will speak at Fairfield University's Open VISIONS Forum, Sunday, March 24.
Wertheimer was named NPR's first senior national correspondent in January 2002.
Ten years later, the Corporation for Public Broadcasting recognized Wertheimer's coverage of the Iran-Contra affair, and American Women in Radio/TV honored her story "Illegal Abortion." In 1997, Wertheimer was named one of the top 50 journalists in Washington, D.C. by Washingtonian magazine.
www.fairfield.edu /x6163.xml   (487 words)

  
 Linda Wertheimer — KCRW | 89.9FM   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
Before taking the senior national correspondent post, Wertheimer spent 13 years as a host of NPR's flagship news magazine, All Things Considered.
As host, Wertheimer helped build the afternoon news program's audience to record levels: The show grew from six million listeners in 1989 to nearly 10 million listeners by spring of 2001, making it one of the top five shows in U.S. radio.
Over her career at NPR, she has anchored ten presidential nomination conventions and 12 election nights.
www.kcrw.com /people/etc/programs/ot/wertheimer_linda?role=etc_host   (509 words)

  
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 Linda Wertheimer NPR Stories - Reverbiage Feeds from National Public Radio (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab1.isi.jhu.edu)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
Linda Wertheimer interviews candidates from two affected Ohio districts.
Linda Wertheimer talks to Kuo about why he concluded that President Bush and the Republican Party have deceived conservative Christians.
Linda Wertheimer talks to Rod Haraga, director of the Hawaii Department of Transportation, about the aftermath.
www.reverbiage.com.cob-web.org:8888 /find/linda-wertheimer   (644 words)

  
 Linda Wertheimer - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab1.isi.jhu.edu)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
Wertheimer was reportedy told she should be a researcher, rather than an on-air reporter, by an executive at NBC
She won the award for her live coverage of the debate in the United States Senate about the Torrijos-Carter Treaties, concerning the Panama Canal, in February of 1978.
Her coverage spanned a period of 37 days and marked the first time a live broadcast was transmitted from inside the Senate chamber.
en.wikipedia.org.cob-web.org:8888 /wiki/Linda_Wertheimer   (376 words)

  
 National Public Radio's Linda Wertheimer Tells Wellesley College Graduates What the World Needs Now Is "A Few Good ...
-- Veteran broadcast journalist Linda Wertheimer addressed the Class of 2003 at Wellesley College's 125th Commencement Exercises on Friday, May 30, on the Wellesley, Mass., campus.
Wertheimer noted in today's uncertain and conflict-ridden world, the government and the military could use the infusion of some new ideas, adding, "Maybe what's needed now are a few good women."
She exhorted the graduating seniors to get involved with both the electoral process and the world of politics.
www.wellesley.edu /PublicAffairs/Releases/2003/053003.html   (568 words)

  
 abunimah.org-Letter to NPR   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
In the Q&A between host Linda Wertheimer and reporter Tom Gjelten, Linda would ask things like "What do we know about the targets?" and Tom would read back exactly what the Pentagon spokesman said.
When Linda asked about the targets, Tom answered (again relaying only the information in the Pentagon briefing as if it were confirmed), "We know that five targets were hit, four of them outside the no-fly zones, one north of Baghdad, three south of Baghdad."
Quite misleadingly, in the introduction to the Q&A, Wertheimer said "President Bush, who's in Mexico today...said Saddam Hussein has to understand that the United States expects him to abide by the agreements he signed after the Gulf War." Then, immediately cut to Bush saying "we will enforce the no-fly zone south and north.
www.abunimah.org /nprletters/010216npriraq.html   (578 words)

  
 FREE PUBLIC LECTURE: Cokie Roberts, Nina Totenberg, and Linda Wertheimer - Event Info, Who's Going - HeyLetsGo ...
Linda Wertheimer is National Public Radio’s senior national correspondent.
From 1974 to 1989, Wertheimer provided coverage of national politics and Congress for NPR, serving as its congressional and then national political correspondent.
A 1964 graduate of Wellesley College, Wertheimer received its highest alumni honor in 1985, the Distinguished Alumna Achievement Award.
boston.heyletsgo.com /event-101587   (1295 words)

  
 Ford Foundation: Women in American Politics - 7
Congresswoman Nydia M. Velazquez and journalist Linda Wertheimer set the tone for the forum by describing their personal experiences.
Nydia Velazquez's experiences suggest that the effect of the growing presence of women on the culture of democratic institutions bears a closer look.
Linda Tarr-Whelan and Celinda Lake highlight gender differences in perspectives on economic issues, noting that women discuss the economy in the language of "Main Street" rather than the typically male vernacular of "Wall Street." Linda Williams urges further exploration of interests shared by women of all races and minority men.
www.fordfound.org /elibrary/documents/0208/007.cfm   (243 words)

  
 National Council for Research on Women
Linda Wertheimer is a senior national correspondent for National Public Radio, and former senior host of NPR’s award-winning newsmagazine All Things Considered.
Wertheimer joined NPR in 1971 as a tape editor and soon after became ATC’s first director.
Wertheimer has received numerous other journalism awards, including a shared Alfred I. duPont-Columbia University Silver Baton for NPR’s coverage of the first 100 days of the 104th Congress.
www.ncrw.org /interest/wertheimer.htm   (177 words)

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