Carl Kasell, host of NPR’s Morning Edition, will leave the radio show after 30 years. He will stay on at NPR as official judge and scorekeeper of Wait, Wait…Don’t Tell Me.
The 75-year old newscaster joined NPR part-time in 1975, and became host of Morning Edition when it first began in 1979.
Over the years, Kasell has reported on the takeover of the American embassy In Iran in 1979, the fall of the Berlin wall in 1989, and the attacks of September 11, 2001. He has received a Peabody Award that he shares with Morning Edition, and has been inducted into the North Carolina Journalism Hall of Fame.
Kasell says of his departure: “I’m just changing jobs,” not disappearing.
His final broadcast for Morning Edition will be December 30, 2009.
