Noah Adams Biography
Noah Adams is an American broadcast journalist and author, known primarily for his more than thirty years of experience on National Public Radio. A former co-host of the daily All Things Considered program, he is currently the contributing correspondent at the network’s National Desk.
As a bestselling author, Adams’ books tend to document a full year in his life, specifically as that year relates to a particular passion or research project.
Adams has also dabbled in major documentary projects, such as Father Cares: The Last of Jonestown in 1981.
The program, which he wrote and narrated, earned him the Prix Italia, the Alfred I. DuPont-Columbia University Award, and the Major Armstrong Award.
Adams was the host of the nationally syndicated Minnesota Public Radio variety show Good Evening, created in 1987 to replace A Prairie Home Companion after that show left the air.
Good Evening ran for less than a year before being canceled; A Prairie Home Companion returned after a several-year hiatus.
Adams was born in Ashland, Kentucky. He is married to Neenah Ellis, public radio producer, and general manager of WYSO-FM in Yellow Springs, Ohio, where they both make their home.
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ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) _ Noah Adams, host of the nationally broadcast ″Good Evening″ radio variety show that succeeded ″A Prairie Home Companion,″ will leave at the end of the year, Minnesota Public Radio announced Tuesday.
Adams is returning to his career as a broadcast journalist, according to MPR, which produces ″Good Evening.″ He did not say for whom he would work.
″Good Evening″ will continue to be broadcast live from the World Theater in St. Paul each Saturday night to more than 160 American Public Radio stations across the country, MPR said.
Adams was an anchor for public radio’s news program ″All Things Considered″ before becoming ″Good Evening″ host in 1987.
″I’ll be doing some radio work, I’m sure, and possibly television,″ Adams said. ″And I have a couple of ideas for books that I’d like to explore. But I’ll miss the music and stories and especially the excitement of Saturday evenings, close to air time.″
″Good Evening″ replaced ″A Prairie Home Companion,″ with humorist Garrison Keillor as host. Keillor left ″A Prairie Home Companion″ last year and moved to his wife’s native Denmark, then to New York.
Beginning with the Jan. 14, 1989, broadcast, ″Good Evening″ will feature guest hosts until a permanent host is named, MPR said.
″We started thinking about this program early in 1987,″ Adams said in a statement, ″and we were pretty sure that good music and literature and storytelling could be brought together in a live broadcast from the World Theater that would find a substantial and appreciative audience.
″Now we’re convinced of that. I think we’ve established a format that can continue for many years.″
″It’s been a wonderful two years here,″ Adams told WCCO-TV of Minneapolis. ″I think of it, in a way, as having left someplace and gone to make a movie for a couple of years and made the movie and it’s worked. And I don’t think they want to make it again for the next two years. I want to find some other movie to make.″
Noah Adams NPR’S National Desk
Noah Adams, long-time co-host of NPR’s All Things Considered, brings more than three decades of radio experience to his current job as a contributing correspondent for NPR’s National Desk., focusing on the low-wage workforce, farm issues, and the Katrina aftermath. Now based in Ohio, he travels extensively for his reporting assignments, a position he’s held since 2003.
Adams’ career in radio began in 1962 at WIRO in Ironton, Ohio, across the river from his native Ashland, Kentucky.
He was a “good music” DJ on the morning shift and played rock and roll on Sandman’s Serenade from 9 p.m. to midnight. Between shifts, he broadcasted everything from basketball games to sock hops. From 1963 to 1965, Adams was on the air from WCMI (Ashland), WSAZ (Huntington, W. Va.) and WCYB (Bristol, Va.).