12 Facts About Linda Wertheimer

Linda Wertheimer is an American radio journalist for NPR.

Linda Wertheimer's's considered one of NPR's "Founding Mothers" along with Susan Stamberg, Nina Totenberg and the late Cokie Roberts.

Linda Wertheimer's graduated from Wellesley College with the class of 1965.

Linda Wertheimer's was reportedly told by an executive at NBC that she should be a researcher, rather than an on-air reporter.

Linda Wertheimer began her career with NPR as the first director of news magazine All Things Considered, hosted by Robert Conley, from its debut on 3 May 1971.

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Linda Wertheimer's was appointed political correspondent by 1974, and in 1976 became the first woman to anchor NPR's coverage of a presidential nomination convention and of an election night.

Linda Wertheimer's continued in her role as a political correspondent through 1989, at which point she became a host of All Things Considered, a role in which she would continue for thirteen years.

In 1979, Linda Wertheimer won a DuPont-Columbia Award for excellence in broadcast journalism.

Linda Wertheimer's received 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 1978.

In 1985, Linda Wertheimer was awarded Wellesley's highest alumnae honor, the Distinguished Alumna Achievement Award.

Linda Wertheimer has received several other accolades, including awards from the Corporation for Public Broadcasting for her anchoring of The Iran-Contra Affair: A Special Report—a series of 41 half-hour programs on the Iran-Contra congressional hearings—from American Women in Radio and Television for her story Illegal Abortion, and from the American Legion for NPR's coverage of the Panama Canal Treaty debates.

Linda Wertheimer's is the author of a book, Listening to America: Twenty-Five Years in the Life of a Nation as Heard on NPR, about recent American history as covered on NPR.