Howard Berkes, National Public Radio correspondent, is now NPR's first-ever rural affairs correspondent.(1998)
Nieman Reports, September, 2003 by Fiore, Lois
Howard Berkes, National Public Radio correspondent, is now NPR's first-ever rural affairs correspondent. Berkes will focus on rural issues and culture for the next three years. It's the third time Berkes has pioneered a beat at NPR. The first came 22 years ago, when he became NPR's first staff reporter in the Rocky Mountain States.
Berkes more recently developed an Olympic politics beat after breaking a portion of the story exposing allegations of bribery in the bidding for the 2002 Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City. He and Congressional Correspondent David Welna (Nieman '98) have already teamed for a pair of stories on efforts to repopulate dying towns. Another teaming of Niemans takes place next year when Berkes and NPR Business and Sports Editor Uri Berliner...
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