All Things Considered Senior Host

As a senior host of National Public Radio^®'s award-winning newsmagazine All things Considered^®, Linda Wertheimer draws on over 29 years of political reporting experience.

Having joined NPR in 1971, Wertheimer has been with the organization almost since its inception. She served as NPR's congressional correspondent and, in 1976, was named political correspondent -- a position she held until 1989, when she became an All Things Considered host.

Wertheimer, who covered congressional news from Watergate to Iran-Contra, has been highly praised for her congressional and presidential election coverage, and for her reports on Capitol Hill and national politics.

In 1992, she received an American Women in Radio/TV award for her story "Illegal Abortion." In 1988, the Corporation for Public Broadcasting gave her an award for anchoring "The Iran-Contra Affair: A Special Report," a series of 41 half-hour programs that summarized each day's congressional hearings and highlighted key testimony.

Wertheimer was honored with a special Alfred I. duPont-Columbia University citation for anchoring the first live broadcast from the Senate chamber, the historic 1978 Panama Canal Treaty debates. She also covered the House Judiciary Committee Hearings on the impeachment of former President Nixon.

During the past four presidential election campaigns, Wertheimer has traveled the country with the major candidates, covering state primaries and national conventions. Since 1976, she has anchored NPR's live coverage of nominating conventions and presidential debates.

Prior to joining NPR, Wertheimer worked for the British Broadcasting Corporation in London and for WCBS Radio in New York.

A 1965 graduate of Wellesley College, Wertheimer received a 1985 Distinguished Alumnae Achievement Award from that institution "in recognition of excellence and distinction in professional pursuits." Wertheimer also holds honorary degrees from Colby College in Maine and Wheaton College in Massachusetts.

Her 1995 book, Listening to America: Twenty-five Years in the Life of a Nation as Heard on National Public Radio, published by Houghton Mifflin, celebrates NPR's 25th anniversary.