An Evening with Michele Norris
Host of All Things Considered
WBHM will host dinner and discussion with NPR's Michele Norris, host of All Things Considered this evening.
Norris is an award-winning journalist with nearly two decades of experience. Along with Melissa Block and Robert Siegel, she hosts All Things Considered, a position she has held since December of 2002. Before joining NPR, Norris was a correspondent for ABC News, where she reported extensively on education, inner city issues, the nation's drug problem, and poverty. Norris has also reported for the Washington Post, Chicago Tribune, and Los Angeles Times.
Norris is a four-time Pulitzer Prize entrant, and has received numerous awards, including the 1990 Chesapeake Associated Press News Executive's Council Editoria Contest Award for Feature Writing, and the 1990 Federal Bar Association Media Award. Ms. Norris' father is from Birmingham and he and his five brothers attended Parker High School in the forties and fifties. In 2004, Ms. Norris did a special report called "Parker High: Integration's Unfulfilled Promise". She will speak on urban and social issues, with an emphasis on Birmingham.
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