Where is neal conan going

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? Despite all the talk of Neil as a tough guy, he was also a Mench. It was really a privilege to work with him for those many decades. Nina Totenberg.

Your email address will not be published. Notify me of follow-up comments by email. Gretel Ehrlich Neal Conan in his home studio in Hawaii in His nephew J. Sutherland, also a former NPR reporter, confirmed his death. Conan, top center, with a crew of WBAI producers and engineers in the early s. Last year, a few of us NPR old-timers gathered on Zoom and took turns explaining what had hooked us on radio.

Neal didn't invoke the great broadcast news oracles of our youth. He was a high school senior, spending a lot of time at the office of his physician father who, Neal recounted, "had an FM radio so he could play easy-listening music to drown out the screams of his patients. 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.

Among Neal's passions were military history, comic books and — perhaps, above all — baseball. Extraordinary life. He was a giant. View the discussion thread. Skip to main content. Don't miss a brief. Sign up for our daily email. Your Email.