Bill Buzenberg is senior vice president of News for American Public Media/Minnesota Public Radio. Upon joining MPR in 1998, he expanded the News division to strengthen regional news coverage, talk programming, and national news programming. During his tenure, KNOW-FM has doubled in audience size and is one of the highest rated major market public radio stations in the nation (The weekly news audience is 533,000 in Minnesota, and Morning Edition is the second highest rated program in morning drive in the Twin Cities.) Buzenberg also launched American RadioWorks, public radio’s largest national documentary production unit, and serves as its executive producer. He also launched and serves as executive producer of MPR’s new program on belief, meaning, ethics and ideas, called Speaking of Faith. Currently, he is leading the third annual Public Radio Collaboration project on globalization. The Collaboration is a coalition of public radio stations and networks across the country sharing programming and special events during the same week to create a national conversation. (The Collaboration week is May 16-22, 2005.) Buzenberg has been a journalist for 30 years, and has worked in public radio for the last 25 years. He joined National Public Radio in 1978 as a reporter to assist in the launch of Morning Edition. He worked as an NPR foreign affairs correspondent for 11 years, covering Central and South America, and later the Philippines, and Western and Eastern Europe. For three years he was NPR’s bureau chief in London. In 1989, Buzenberg returned to Washington D.C. to become the first managing editor for NPR News. Nine months later he was named vice president of News and Information, a position he held for 7 years. Buzenberg launched NPR's Talk of the Nation program, expanded NPR's newscast service to 24 x 7, and extended All Things Considered to two hours. During Buzenberg's tenure, NPR was honored with nine DuPont-Columbia Batons and 10 Peabody Awards. In recognition of his achievements at NPR, Buzenberg was presented in 1997 with the Edward R. Murrow Award, the highest honor in public radio. He co-edited “Salant, CBS, and the Battle for the Soul of Broadcast Journalism,” published in the fall of 1998. Buzenberg is a journalism graduate of Kansas State University (1969). He has also been awarded fellowships to study at the University of Michigan (1977), Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies (1978), and the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University (1997).

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Seminar speeches given by Bill Buzenberg:

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