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After 35 years at NPR, 11 of them at the helm of Talk of the Nation, Neal Conan, has decided to step away from the grueling world of daily journalism. He hopes to write a book and spend more time in Wyoming.

We look forward to his future reporting contributions from wherever he lands. He will leave a legacy of excellence, having skillfully carried NPR, our Member Stations and the nation through some of the most important news of the last decade. Please add your own comments below.

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Why the change? David Folkenflik and Mark Memmott had this to say in the NPR blog " Two Way ": NPR executives said public radio has a glut of vibrant call-in shows involving national issues — and that they sought a newsmagazine with a mix of interviews and prepared stories to bridge the hours between Morning Edition and All Things Considered.

But NPR managers also offered words of praise for "Talk of the Nation" Over its year run, Talk of the Nation has made a powerful contribution to public radio and set the standard for high quality call-in talk programming.

This, I think, is primarily what made the program such a joy to listen to: it envisioned, and enabled, a world in which diametrically opposed demographics—along nearly every metric—could speak. The exchange happened after Mr. Vernon called in to check up on the man. Their conversation was substantively over but Mr. You can read below but better to listen: God bless you, Neal.

If you only knew what your program, especially your voice, means to me every day. It reaches out to my heart and my mind and my soul and every one of the people who work for the radio. And I want to get out of the tractor and give up and walk away and just be lost. But instead I stayed in the tractor and listened to you guys that I can get through this day. So thank you guys for being what you are to all of us, people like us that are just barely hanging on by a thread.

I listen to podcasts of Talk of the Nation as I bike to work, as rosy fingered dawn touches the Hudson, and when I bike home from work, the sun setting over the same. Actually, I alternate between podcasts of the Interdependence Project and Talk of the Nation but, aside from the particulars, they are, to me, one and the same: an hour or two of respect, openness, thoughtfulness, consciousness.

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