Noah Adams, longtime host of NPR's 'All Things Considered,' dies at 84

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Set us as preferred Noah Adams, a longtime host of NPR news program “All Things Considered” and a journalist known for his gentle voice and genuine curiosity, has died.He was 84.Adams died Oct.

16 at his home in Yellow Springs, Ohio, according to NPR.The cause was complications of a benign brain tumor removed eight years ago, his wife and longtime NPR news producer Neenah Ellis told the New York Times.

A host of the weekday edition of “All Things Considered” for 18 years, Adams helped cover major news events and produced segments from his travels around the country, talking to everyday people, often in small rural towns.“He never liked talking to people who he knew had preprogrammed things to say,” Melissa Block, a former “All Things Considered” host who’d previously worked as a producer for Adams, said in NPR’s segment announcing his death.

“He wanted people who were genuinely speaking from their heart and with conviction and sincerity.” Entertainment & Arts Susan Stamberg, a ‘founding mother’ of National Public Radio and the first female broadcaster to host a national news program, has died.She was 87.Born on Sept.

15, 1942, in Ashland, Ky., Adams joined NPR in the mid-1970s after working various jobs including as a DJ and in construction in and around his hometown.A college dropout, Adams was inspired to start working in public radio after encountering “All Things Considered” as a listener.He was introduced to the program by a colleague shortly after it debuted in 1971.

He told The Times in 2002 that he remembered thinking, “That sounds conversational, that they intend for me to be listening, that I’m smart enough to be listening,” when he first heard the show.After working at the University of Kentucky’s public radio station, he applied for a job at NPR.He was hired as a pr...