Carl Kasell
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Carl Kasell Student Talk
Tuesday, April 6th at 2pm
WSU’s Rhatigan Student Center, Regents Room #203.
Open to the public, no tickets needed.
Carl Kasell VIP Reception—By Invitation Only
Tuesday, April 6th from 6:30pm to 7:30pm
Century II Concert Hall Lobby
The reception will be hosted by WSU Associate Provost Keith Pickus and music will be provided by Ryan Windham.
Carl Kasell Lecture
Tuesday, April 6th at 7:45pm
Century II’s Mary Jane Teall Theater
Tickets are $10. Please register below.
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Carl Kasell, a veteran broadcaster whose career spans more than 50 years, is the official judge and scorekeeper for NPR’s weekly oddly informative news quiz show, Wait Wait… Don’t Tell Me!, which airs at 10am on Saturday and Sunday on kmuw. Wait Wait is currently kmuw’s highest ranked show. For 30 years, Kasell provided newscasts for NPR’s daily newsmagazine, Morning Edition, a role he held since the program’s inception in 1979 until 2009.
In 2004, UNC at Chapel Hill selected Kasell as an inductee to the North Carolina Journalism Hall of Fame, for his exceptionally distinguished and career-long contribution to the field of journalism. In 2001, Kasell was awarded the Development Exchange Inc’s (DEI) President’s Award for his lifetime contributions to public radio. In 1999, Kasell shared in the George Foster Peabody Institutional Award given to NPR’s Morning Edition. He also received the Public Radio Regional Organization (PRRO) Award in 1991 for what a member of the selection committee called his “consistently flawless delivery” of newscasts.
Kasell joined NPR in 1975 as a part-time newscaster for Weekend All Things Considered, and later became a full-time NPR newscaster for Morning Edition. Prior to that, he spent 10 years at radio station WAVA in Arlington, Virginia, first as morning anchor, then as news director.
Kasell is also an accomplished magician having reportedly sawed Nina Totenberg in half at a public radio conference. He is also an UNC basketball fan (which we will not hold against him). He currently lives with his wife Mary Ann in Washington, DC.
