Two-time Peabody Award-winner Peter Breslow is a senior producer for NPR's newsmagazine Weekend Edition. He has been with the program since 1992. Prior to that, he was a producer for NPR's All Things Considered.
Scott Simon is one of America's most admired writers and broadcasters. He is the host of Weekend Edition Saturday and is one of the hosts of NPR's morning news podcast Up First. He has reported from all fifty states, five continents, and ten wars, from El Salvador to Sarajevo to Afghanistan and Iraq. His books have chronicled character and characters, in war and peace, sports and art, tragedy and comedy.
For the past few weeks, we’ve been following the creation of a new piece of public art. The collaboration between Eugene Sargent, students in Springdale Public Schools and Cox Communications is now revealed. The unveiling of the 9-foot-tall Tree of Communication took place Nov. 12 at the Cox store on Joyce Boulevard in Fayetteville.
Grammy nominations in 95 categories, from Best Children’s Album to Record of the Year, were announced this week. Music from the Fort Smith symphony is one of the nominated pieces.