Day to Day
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Day to Day is a one-hour weekday American radio newsmagazine distributed by National Public Radio (NPR), and produced by NPR in collaboration with Slate. As of 2006, its hosts are Alex Chadwick and Madeleine Brand. It premiered on Monday, July 28, 2003, and feeds to stations at noon Eastern Time with updates until 4 p.m. Eastern. It is designed to be aired during the middle of the day, although some stations on the West Coast use it as an extension to Morning Edition.
NPR created Day to Day to extend NPR news coverage to a midday audience, continuing the tradition of fellow NPR newsmagazines All Things Considered and Morning Edition. Regularly covered topics include news, entertainment, politics and the arts. Contributors include familiar NPR personalities, reporters from NPR member stations, and writers for Slate. One unusual aspect of the show is a story and embedded promotion from a reporter from Marketplace, a show produced by NPR competitor American Public Media.
Unlike ATC and Morning Edition, which were produced at NPR's national headquarters in Washington, D.C., Day to Day was the first NPR newsmagazine produced at NPR West in Culver City, California, a Los Angeles suburb. (Morning Edition co-host Renée Montagne now broadcasts from NPR West as well.)
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[edit] Format
Day to Day kicks off with a sixty-second billboard, wherein Alex Chadwick and Madeleine Brand talk about what will be coming up on the show. The billboard is followed by the standard NPR newscast from one minute past to six minutes past the hour. Some stations utilize the last 2.5 minutes of the newscast to deliver local midday news reports. A thirty-second music bed follows, and then Segment A begins.
Segment A (duration 12:29) contains the top story of the day, and usually synopses of longer-term issues viewed through the lens of current events. Segment topics can range from the American judicial system to economics to geopolitics to conversations with notable newsmakers, and more. Segment A closes at nineteen minutes past the hour and leads into a two-minute station break.
At twenty-one after, Segment B (duration 7:49) begins. Segment B composes the remainder of the first half-hour, and as such continues coverage on important news events of the day, or segues into lighter--but still culturally or socially important--stories. Segment B closes at 28:50 past the hour, and goes into a local break until the bottom of the hour.
At half past the hour, Day to Day returns with Segment C1 (duration 5:14), usually reserved for updates on stories presented in the first half-hour, or different angles on major news stories. Segment C2 (duration 3:59) features interviews or commentary. Segment C2 stories are informative and sometimes humorous, but not necessarily time-sensitive. C2 ends at 39:30 after the hour.
Following another thirty-second music break, Day to Day enters Segment D (duration 8:59). There is little specificity to the content of Segment D; stories can range from international and domestic issues to long-term reports on a variety of topics. Segment D runs from forty minutes to forty-nine minutes past the hour, and another two-minute station break ensues.
Segment E (duration 8:20) begins at fifty-one minutes past the hour, and is divided into Segments E1 and E2, which last roughly three and a half minutes each. Segment E1 is a discussion about an item of business news with a reporter from Marketplace, capped with a short preview of that evening's program. Segment E2 is usually devoted to commentary and light features, including "The Unger Report," a satirical take on news and current events. In some cases, Segment E is followed up by the credits, and Day to Day comes to a close.
[edit] Personnel
[edit] Hosts
For its first two and a half years, Day to Day was usually hosted by either longtime NPR host and correspondent Alex Chadwick or NPR news host Madeleine Brand. On January 16, 2006, Chadwick and Brand began co-hosting each program together[1]. NPR personalities Noah Adams and Mike Pesca often serve as substitute hosts for the program.
[edit] Staff
- Executive Producer Jeff Rogers
- Senior producers Chip Grabow and Steve Proffitt
- Directors Shereen Meraji and Rob Sachs
- Producers Neal Carruth and Sarah Spivack
- Senior Planning producer Kathryn Fox
- Editors Alicia Montgomery, Martha Little and Jacob Conrad
- Staff Reporters Karen Grigsby Bates (LA) and Mike Pesca (New York)
[edit] Contributors
- Brian Unger, humor and satirical commentary
- Michelle Singletary, personal finance
- Dahlia Lithwick, legal correspondent
- Xeni Jardin, technology
- David Was, music
- Annabelle Gurwitch, humorous commentary
- Jennifer Sharpe, oddities
[edit] References
- ^ Day to Day, National Public Radio, January 20, 2006. [1] (at 4:06 elapsed time)
