Sarah Oliver, Govt Producer of Weekend Version
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That is Sarah Lucy Oliver’s final weekend because the Govt Producer of Weekend Version. She is retiring, and whereas we are going to miss her daily, it’s a tribute to her that you could be not discover a distinction right here on our reveals. SLO, as she’s come to be identified, has educated and impressed legions of nice producers and editors, who’ve realized from her intelligence, humor, and discerning journalism.
Most of all, we’ve got been enriched by her human contact. SLO treats all of us with a respect and kindness that’s mirrored in what you hear on weekend mornings. She has taught us all you could pack a broadcast filled with necessary details and findings. However in case you do not find time for the strokes of laughter, sorrows, shock, and poignance, individuals will not stick with you for very lengthy, particularly on weekend mornings, when our minds might wish to wander. Sarah Lucy Oliver has made our reveals a weekly gathering for all of us — we right here within the studio, management room and the desks simply outdoors, and also you, listening in your kitchens and automobiles.
SLO first joined NPR as an intern in 1989. She later returned to Weekend Version to work with the legendary Daniel Schorr to find out about broadcast journalism from one of many individuals who helped invent it.
Earlier than she led the present, SLO was a unprecedented producer within the area. Within the wrenching days after the September 11 assaults, she discovered households who had misplaced loves ones in New York, and her respect and kindness helped individuals whose lives had been shattered discover power to open their hearts to us, so we might deliver their tales to you. As our present director, she stored us on the air via lengthy hours of particular protection following the Columbia shuttle catastrophe and within the first days of the Iraq Warfare.
What SLO has accomplished every week as our Govt Producer is artwork and structure. She’s confronted a clean area and needed to determine: what do we’d like the place? What’s the easiest way to inform that story? What is going to invite individuals in to spend time? The place can we press ahead, pull again, and the way do we discover stability? The place do we’d like a contact of sunshine, or heat? What can deliver all of this collectively?
SLO is retiring. However in a enterprise that may appear to ship phrases out to vanish into skinny air, Sarah Lucy Oliver’s artistry and charm will proceed to brighten our lives, and your weekends.
