How NPR’s Newsroom Reinvented Itself on 9/11 in Real Time: “Get on the Air”

In an excerpt from his new book, On Air, Steve Oney writes that the network was “paralyzed” when the tragedy struck. It eventually scrambled to assemble a live-news operation, one former editor recalls, after member stations “went batshit.”

Mar 3, 2025 - 12:04
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How NPR’s Newsroom Reinvented Itself on 9/11 in Real Time: “Get on the Air”
In an excerpt from his new book, On Air, Steve Oney writes that the network was “paralyzed” when the tragedy struck. It eventually scrambled to assemble a live-news operation, one former editor recalls, after member stations “went batshit.”