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NPR host Neal Conan, 'founding father of our public radio system,' dies of brain tumor at Show Caption. Hide Caption. NPR pulls epic April fools' joke. National Public Radio played a joke on its Facebook fans on April Fools' Day and proved a point about the decline of reading in America.

Mara Montalbano maramontalbano has the story. Conan was studious in preparing for live broadcasts. The series of under—two-minute voicers featured analysis of military and political developments in the Pacific Basin and aired from to The interview series was initially funded by an HPR listener. In April, former TOTN staffers held a Zoom reunion so that former colleagues could say goodbye to Conan, who had told friends of his terminal illness in a Facebook post. Before joining TOTN , Conan took a leave of absence to work as the play-by-play announcer for the Aberdeen Arsenal, a minor league baseball team in Maryland.

He also collaborated with Ensemble Galilei, a Maryland-based group that performs early music, much of it Celtic. I think he loved it. When the ensemble was in Cora, Wyo. They hit it off right away and eventually married. His baseball book was really wonderful.

Who stops in the middle of a career and does something like that? But it was on that radio that he heard something different — WBAI, a public radio station in the middle of a fundraising drive. You heard women's voices very unusual in those days. You heard Midwestern and Brooklyn accents, people with passion who cared about what they were doing and wanted to involve me.

And in , he joined NPR, where he held an astonishing variety of jobs. He was, at various times, the line producer and executive producer of All Things Considered. In , he ran NPR's coverage for a year as news director. As a reporter and host, he covered confirmation hearings of Supreme Court nominees, two Olympic Games, President Bill Clinton's impeachment and presidential debates. Abroad, he won a handful of awards for his coverage of wars in the Middle East and conflict in Northern Ireland.

In the final days of the Gulf War in , while reporting from southern Iraq in the U. Search Query Show Search. Show Search Search Query. Play Live Radio. Next Up:. Available On Air Stations.