Mary Louise-Kelly Stepping Down From Hosting ATC
From her Instagram (marylouisekelly1) “NEWS: I'm stepping down as host of All Things Considered and Sources & Methods.
What a joy to have gotten to do so much of what I hoped to do, when I first set foot in this newsroom 25 years ago.
NPR has dispatched me all over the world, to interview presidents and prime ministers, to cover protests and peace deals, elections and wars. The stories that stick with me now are of ordinary people living through extraordinary events. Of leaning across a beat-up kitchen table, listening as strangers pour tea and pour out their stories, asking us please to bear witness and to tell the world. We have. We will.
I’ll continue to contribute stories now and then; @NPR remains a place where I can do the kind of work I came to journalism to do. But I've been feeling the tug of new adventures. For starters, I plan to step away from the news cycle for a bit, to read long books and take long walks.
Then, time for the next chapter.
Onwards.”