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Lisa Napoli is a journalist, broadcaster, and biographer whose work explores the people and cultural forces that shape modern media. Born and raised in Brooklyn, New York, she began her career in television and radio and went on to report for outlets including The New York Times, MSNBC, and the public radio program Marketplace, as well as KCRW. She is the author of several nonfiction books, including Radio Shangri-La, a memoir about helping launch a radio station in Bhutan; Ray & Joan, a biography of McDonald's figure Joan Kroc; Up All Night, a history of the early days of CNN; and Susan, Linda, Nina & Cokie, which chronicles the pioneering women who helped build NPR. Across her work, Napoli focuses on biography and narrative history, often examining the intersection of media, politics, and social change. She has covered a wide range of subjects throughout her career, from presidential campaigns to the emergence of the internet as a mass medium.
"""Napoli chronicles not just the camaraderie of Stamberg, Wertheimer, Totenberg and Roberts, but their commitment to help the careers of younger women who aspired to follow them. The founding mothers, in word and deed, offer a powerful lesson on what can happen when we carry as we climb.""-- ""The Washington Post"" ""Napoli has written an eye-opening, often funny, sometimes horrifying story that includes madcap escapades, thrilling scoops, and misogynistic misadventures.""-- ""AudioFile"" ""Napoli narrates the origin stories of NPR's female journalistic superheroes ... a history filled with so many powerful moments and fascinating details about journalism, perseverance, and gender bias.""-- ""Kirkus Reviews"" ""NPR gave a voice to women in news before many other news outlets, and NPR's founding mothers used their powerful voices to tell the stories that explained and changed people's lives. Lisa Napoli impressively chronicles how these four pioneers paved the way for women journalists everywhere.""--Lynn Povich ""author of The Good Girls Revolt"" ""Public radio fans will treasure this book.""--Brian Stelter ""Readers are left with inspiring insights into the pathbreaking work of these four women, but more importantly with a sense of how the status of some women and the role of the media have both changed in the last 50 years.""-- ""Library Journal"" ""[Susan, Linda, Nina, and Cokie] illuminates the terrifying, thrilling energy of NPR as start-up....The book is a lesson in how the fringe project of one generation becomes the mainstream of the next....Napoli portrays the network's endearingly experimental, chaotic beginning."" -- ""The New York Times Book Review"" ""Histories, biographies, and behind-the-scenes narratives about the news biz typically idolize swaggering, chain-smoking, tough-talking dudes who tower over testimonies with testosterone-infused personalities. But with Susan, Linda, Nina & Cokie, Napoli honors not the dog-eat-dog variety of journalist, but the fortitude of sisterhood, of women supporting each other."" -- ""Oprah Daily"" ""Lisa Napoli's Susan, Linda, Nina & Cokie is an intimate and beautifully told tale of the extraordinary coming together of four women who would help shape a network, the news business, and each other's lives. I feel immensely grateful to these women for all they have done for NPR and for women in journalism and also incredibly proud to work alongside them.""--Stacey Vanek Smith ""Lisa Napoli's can't-miss account of four female journalistic titans who banded together in the nonprofit radio organization's early days."" -- ""Harper's Bazaar"""
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