Departing Diva
Lisa Simeone reclaims her Saturday and Sunday evenings, quitting NPR’s “Weekend All Things Considered” after a year and a half.
By
Kathryn S. Wenner
Kathryn S. Wenner, a former AJR associate editor, is a copy editor at the Washington Post.
Lisa Simeone, an NPR anchor who has been called a "radio diva" by her hometown paper, the Baltimore Sun, quits "Weekend All Things Considered" so she can have more free time. Simeone, 44, joined ATC's Saturday and Sunday evening broadcasts in October 2000, after several years as a fill-in host for "Weekend Edition Sunday" and "Performance Today." Though Simeone says "there's a lot more to life than work," her plans include producing her trademark "little quirky pieces" on Baltimore kitsch for NPR's cultural desk and radio documentaries for an independent company, plus anchoring a new TV show for the Center for Defense Information. Simeone's striking radio voice has won her boxes full of fan letters, she says, but none more memorable than the one that said, "Calling you an announcer is like calling Michael Jordan a basketball player." ###
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