Lisa Napoli appears in the following:
Remote Learning: NPR's History and Its Founding 'Mothers'
Monday, May 24, 2021
As National Public Radio turns 50, we learn about the four women who set the tone for decades to come.
'The Extraordinary Story of the Founding Mothers of NPR'
Tuesday, April 13, 2021
Journalist Lisa Napoli joins to discuss her new book, "Susan, Linda, Nina & Cokie: The Extraordinary Story of the Founding Mothers of NPR."
One Band's Key Instrument: Wheels
Saturday, October 06, 2018
An acoustic jazz band in Los Angeles make their way to their gigs, instruments and all, by bike and skateboard. Occasionally, they have to use the metro, but human-powered transport is preferred.
One Woman Helps Others Make Sure End-Of-Life Planning Is 'Good To Go'
Saturday, May 26, 2018
After dealing with the sudden death of her mother, a Los Angeles woman has taken it upon herself to prepare others to grapple with getting their affairs in order.
Behind the McDonalds Fortune
Friday, November 18, 2016
A look behind the massive food-chain's fortune, the man who made it and the woman who gave it away.
9 Lives And Counting: Hello Kitty Turns 40
Sunday, October 19, 2014
Hello Kitty is celebrating a big birthday this year. In the time since the first simple coin purse was sold in Japan back in 1974, Hello Kitty has become a multibillion-dollar empire — $8 billion worth of products bearing her image sold internationally in 2013. The Japanese company that created ...
A Growing Movement To Spread Faith, Love — And Clean Laundry
Sunday, July 27, 2014
It's 7 p.m. on a weeknight at a strip mall in Huntington Beach, Calif., and people have been lined up for hours outside a laundromat here. They've been waiting for a chance to do their wash for free. As they file in, volunteers direct them to the machines and help ...
Four-Legged Impostors Give Service Dog Owners Pause
Wednesday, September 11, 2013
People who lack special needs but simply want to keep their pets with them all the time can easily find fake "service animal" certifications on the Web. But those phony credentials ca...
Track 16's Last Stop: Iconic Gallery to Become Train Station
Tuesday, December 11, 2012
The Scene: Los AngelesFrom KCRW's Which Way LA, hosted by Warren Olney
It’s a sad irony for those of us who crave more mass transit that a special spot has to fall to make way for t...
Radio Shangri-La
Tuesday, February 08, 2011
Lisa Napoli talks about moving to Bhutan: a deeply spiritual place whose citizens are believed to be among the most content in the world. Radio Shangri-La: What I Learned in Bhutan, the Happiest Kingdom on Earth is an account of how she created a new community for herself and helped to start Bhutan’s first youth-oriented radio station: Kuzoo FM.
Olympics: Time Delays, Music, Canadian Coverage; Bud Greenspan; Late Night TV Lampoons the Candidates; Baise-moi; Vini-der-pu and the Yiddish Revival
Friday, September 22, 2000
"The Stiff Guy vs. The Dumb Guy": Leno, Letterman, and the rest of the Late Night Comedy Kingdom size up Gore and Bush. Oy Vey: Vini-der-pu aka Winnie the Pooh
Bush's Convention Speech; Concorde Crash; Web Convention Coverage; Reality Websites; Computer Etymology; Theater Publicists; Classical Music; McFadden's
Friday, August 04, 2000
What will you eat for $100? Reality websites want to know and want to make you a viral sensation.
NRA Theme Restaurant; Hezbollah; African Films; Cramer Conflict; Mental Engineering; Friends; Celebrity Ailments
Friday, May 26, 2000
The new Times Square theme restaurant: The NRA Sports Blast? And when TV stars get sick it's time for a very special episode to tell you all about it.
ABC Disney vs. Time Warner; Vieques; Photojournalism's Death?; Citadel Hazing; Music Industry vs. mp3.com & Napster
Friday, May 05, 2000
Time Warner pulls ABC Disney channels off its cable networks. Is photojournalism dead? The Empire Strikes Back: The recording industry goes to court against mp3.com and Napster.
All Elian All the Time: Low Power Radio; Wonderland; Creative Violence?
Friday, March 31, 2000
Diane Sawyer gets an exclusive interview with Elian Gonzalez, who doesn't speak English. Plus, an ABC episodic drama about a psychiatric hospital.
The Simpsons at 10; AOL marries Time Warner; Too Many Debates?; Brides Magazine
Friday, January 14, 2000
The Simpsons: The Greatest TV Show Ever? Time Warner Marries America Online.
McCain and the Media: Car Shows; Cybersquatting; Overseas Reporting; Kosovo Genocide?; Mental Hygiene Films
Friday, January 07, 2000
John McCain puts on a media charm campaign. Will the networks millennium coverage lead to better foreign news coverage? Was there a genocide in Kosovo? Forgotten mental hygiene films.
Media Millennium Past and Media Millennium Future
Friday, December 31, 1999
OTM says Goodbye Y1K...Hello Y2K. As the Millennium turns OTM asks, "What's changed?" And what will media future look like?
Do We Really Know Who's Watching, Reading; Movie Tie-ins; Dumb Questions Journalists Ask; Buckley & Schultz Retire; Columbine
Friday, December 17, 1999
TV rating systems; Charles Schultz and Willam F. Buckley retire; stupid questions for presidential candidates; movies as toy tie-ins? The Internet in its Infancy; Columbine shooters.
WTO Protests; Dot Com Ads on TV; Internet Christmas; Talk and George Fight to Survive; TV Violence; Rudy vs. Hillary
Friday, December 03, 1999
All about survivalist media; Talk and George fight to survive. What can't you buy on the Internet? New media advertising on television? The Battle of Seattle.
