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Former NPR Newscaster Jean Cochran on Eastern Standard

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An NPR newscaster who helped wake America for 33 years joins us on our next program.  Jean Cochran retired from National Public Radio last year as part of a buy-out offered to many long-time employees at the network.

Jean has been one of America’s most familiar voices to millions of radio listeners for decades as a newscaster on NPR’s Morning Edition.  Her newscasts have aired live on 849 member stations nationwide, heard by nearly 27-million listeners every week.

For most of her 33 years at NPR, Cochran wrote 5-minute round-ups of world and national news and delivered each newscast ‘live’ on the half-hour, seven times each morning starting at 5:30 am Eastern time. That meant arriving at NPR studios in Washington, D.C. by 3 am. (And going to bed each weeknight at 6pm!)

You're invited to interact with Jean Thursday morning March 27, 2014 between 11:00 am and 12:00 noon.  You can send your question or comment before the show to wekueasternstandard (at) gmail (dot) com, post on the station Facebook page, send a tweet @wekuest, or leave a message on the WEKU Listener Comment Line at 859-622-1657.

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