- Carl Kasell
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name = Carl Kasell
caption = Carl Kasell after a broadcast of "Wait Wait... Don't Tell Me! "
birth_date = birth date and age|1934|04|02
birth_place =Goldsboro, North Carolina , U.S.A.
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occupation = Radio Newscaster
spouse = Mary Ann Kasell
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nationality = United States
website =Carl Kasell (born
April 2 1934 ) is an American radio personality, most widely known as a newscaster forNational Public Radio .A native of
Goldsboro, North Carolina , Kasell was a student of drama in high school, where one of his mentors wasAndy Griffith , then a high school drama instructor. Although Griffith urged Kasell to pursue a career in theatre, Kasell took to radio at an early age as well. During his time at theUniversity of North Carolina at Chapel Hill , he helped launch local radio station WUNC with fellow studentCharles Kuralt .He worked as an announcer and DJ at a radio station in Goldsboro before moving to the
Washington, DC area in 1965. He advanced to the position of news director atWAVA inArlington, Virginia . As news director in Virginia, he hiredKatie Couric as an intern one summer. He joinedNational Public Radio 's staff as a news announcer in 1975. He has been the news announcer for NPR's "Morning Edition " since its inception in 1979.In 1998, Kasell was finally able to join the phenomenon of radio
game show s which attracted him to the genre in his youth when NPR launched its weekly news quiz, "Wait Wait... Don't Tell Me! ", with Kasell as official judge and scorekeeper. The prize that "Wait Wait..." offers to its listener contestants is a recording of Kasell's voice for their personal telephoneanswering machine s.He is a member of the North Carolina Journalism Hall of Fame. In 1999, Kasell shared in the
George Foster Peabody Award given to "Morning Edition".External links
* [http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=2100708 NPR biography]
* [http://www.npr.org/programs/waitwait/features/messages.html NPR : Wait Wait -- Don't Tell Me! : Messages by Carl Kasell]
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