Listening to the Listener   

After 23 years at the Washington Post and 12 in television, Juan Williams is ready for a full-time gig in radio.

After 23 years at the Washington Post and 12 in television, Juan Williams is ready for a full-time gig in "the most challenging of communications relationships": radio. Williams, 45, becomes host of National Public Radio's "Talk of the Nation," about five months after Ray Suarez left the post for "The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer." "In radio," says Williams, who last year penned the biography, "Thurgood Marshall--American Revolutionary," "you actually have the opportunity to interactŠthe opportunity to build a relationship with the audience." NPR also creates an ombudsman position, tapping Jeffrey Dvorkin, vice president, news & information, for the job.