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Morning Edition host Rachel Martin interviews former Vice President Joe Biden aboard his campaign bus en route to Decorah, Iowa about his bid for the Democratic nomination and the impeachment inquiry against President Trump. This is the transcript of a conversation held on Dec. 6, 2019. Rachel Martin: Mr. Vice President, thank you very much for having us. Former Vice President Joe Biden: Thanks for being on the bus. I appreciate it. On the bus, very exciting. So we're in Iowa. Yup. You have been here before. Been here a lot. You've been here a lot. This is the third...

On National Public Radio on Saturday morning, Weekend Edition anchor Scott Simon interviewed Ed Martin, a pro-Trump author and Republican Party man, reveling in the Donald Trump-Steve Bannon feud. Martin said “I'm trying not to be on a side - it's like Mom and Dad had a little bit of a disagreement. I prefer to think that it's going to settle down and they're all in the family here, you know.” So Simon suggested Trump might be a lunatic: SCOTT SIMON: But disagreement - Steve Bannon is quoted as saying -- and to my knowledge this statement has not been...

Frank Deford, the charismatic sports writer widely regarded as one of the best of his generation who also presided over the ambitious and short-lived The National, one of the biggest busts in the annals of the newspaper industry, has died. He was 78. Deford, who began his career at Sports Illustrated in 1962 and remained with the magazine for decades, died Sunday in Key West, Fla., his wife told The Washington Post. A prolific and widely admired novelist as well, Deford wrote the 1981 book Everybody's All-American, about the downfall of a 1950s University of North Carolina star. It was...

NPR is acting to clarify the role of longtime analyst and commentator Cokie Roberts after she co-wrote a syndicated newspaper column calling for "the rational wing" of the Republican Party to stop Donald Trump's march toward its presidential nomination. NPR has a policy forbidding its journalists from taking public stances on political affairs. She has not been a full-time employee for decades, and several years ago Roberts officially was named a commentator. (The timing was confirmed in separate interviews with Roberts, NPR officials and the former senior vice president for news who made the decision.) The role gives Roberts more...

In a mini-deal reminiscent of the commercial radio station consolidations that have taken place the last 10 years, a new era in Cincinnati public radio was unveiled Friday as two of the area's legendary stations will soon be under one nonprofit ownership group.

IF THE AMERICAN FEDERATION OF BLACKSMITHS AND BUGGYWHIP MANUFACTURERS had held a convention in 1910, in those last sullen moments before the Horseless Carriage put them all out of business, then this is what it must have felt like--the same forced cheerfulness laid over the same defeated air, the same stiff upper lip at the prospect of the inescapable end. Outside the Hilton Clearwater Beach Resort, on the Florida coast near Tampa Bay, the beach was streaked with wind and black thunderheads stacked up along the horizon. Inside the hotel, members of the Association of Music Personnel in Public Radio...

Kentucky native Bob Edwards says he is disappointed at National Public Radio's decision to force him from its popular Morning Edition newsmaga-zine. "I've had better days," Edwards said yesterday in a telephone interview from his home in Arlington, Va. "I feel like I would like to continue hosting Morning Edition, but I'm glad they didn't fire me." Edwards said he was told two weeks ago that his days on Morning Edition were numbered. "I got called into an office and told 'we're making a change,'" he said. NPR announced yesterday that Edwards would become a senior correspondent, filing reports that...

NEW YORK - National Public Radio has bounced Bob Edwards, host of Morning Edition since its inception in 1979, out of his job. The radio network announced Tuesday that Edwards, 56, will become senior correspondent of NPR News at the end of April, with his reports being heard on various broadcasts. Edwards said he was disappointed by the move, particularly that he won't be the host when the program celebrates its 25th anniversary in November. "You have to figure it's going to happen someday and you get out before they do it," he said. "But I failed." Edwards said he...

Bob Edwards, who for 25 years has been the signature voice of National Public Radio's "Morning Edition," is being removed from the show by NPR managers, effective April 30. "Morning Edition" is the No. 1 morning show on radio, with almost 13 million listeners. "I would have loved to have stayed with 'Morning Edition,' " said Edwards, 56. "But it's not my candy store." An NPR announcement that he would become a senior correspondent for NPR News was premature, he said yesterday. NPR executive vice president Ken Stern called the change part of a "natural evolution" that "had to do...

NPR host to become senior correspondent Tuesday, March 23, 2004 Posted: 12:26 PM EST (1726 GMT) Bob Edwards -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Story Tools -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- RELATED • NPR YOUR E-MAIL ALERTS Bob Edwards National Public Radio or Create your own Manage alerts | What is this? NEW YORK (AP) -- Bob Edwards, host of National Public Radio's "Morning Edition" since its inception in 1979, has been forced out of that job. At the end of April, the 56-year-old Edwards will become senior correspondent of NPR News, with his reports being heard on various network broadcasts. NPR's Steve Inskeep and Renee Montagne will serve...