Margot Adler, An NPR Journalist For Three Decades, Dies

[mike_c]

Source: National Public Radio

Margot Adler, one of the signature voices on NPR's airwaves for more than three decades, died Monday at her home in New York City. She was 68 and had been battling cancer.

Margot joined the NPR staff as a general assignment reporter in 1979. She went on to cover everything from the beginnings of the AIDS epidemic to confrontations involving the Ku Klux Klan in Greensboro, N.C., to the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001.

"Her reporting was singular and her voice distinct," Margaret Low Smith, NPR's vice president for news, said in an announcement to staff. "There was almost no story that Margot couldn't tell."

The granddaughter of renowned Viennese psychiatrist Alfred Adler, Margot was born in Little Rock, Ark., but spent most of her life in Manhattan.

Read more: http://www.npr.org/blogs/thetwo-way/2014/07/28/336081618/margot-adler-an-npr-journalist-for-three-decades-dies

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RIP, Margot Adler.

[KamaAina]

1. Factoid: Psych majors will remember her grandfather Alfred Adler

as a pioneering psychologist, a contemporary of and collaborator with Freud. The "inferiority complex" is his brainchild.

[hlthe2b]

2. 'Listened to her for years. RIP, Ms. Adler

Despite its more recent rightward turn, NPR has had a long storied history well served by good reporters. Adler was one of them, for sure.

[immoderate]

6. I remember her earlier days at WBAI in NYC.

She hosted shows there for years before joining NPR. She will be missed.

--imm

[ramapo]

12. Hour of the Wolf

I loved listening to her stories. I was a bit miffed when she went over to NPR even though it was a good move on her part.

RIP Margot.

[Smarmie Doofus]

19. Me too. The golden era of BAI.

Early 70's.

She was all over that place.

[DeadLetterOffice]

3. Blessed be, Margot.

[navarth]

4. "her voice distinct"...

...it certainly was. Cross gently, sister. I'll miss your voice.

[Paladin]

5. One of the central figures from the era when NPR was worth a shit. RIP.

[Marrah_G]

7. May you pass smiling into the Summerlands Lady!

Blessed be!

[shenmue]

8. Requiescat in pace

[NRaleighLiberal]

9. A significant loss...rest in peace, Margot - and thanks for years of worthwhile work

[Swede Atlanta]

10. RIP Ms Adler......

I remember listening to her for years....

[Ron Obvious]

11. As a long-time NPR listener, I'm saddened to hear this

A very familiar voice, indeed.

[LiberalElite]

13. .

[TDale313]

14. Blessed be, Margot.

[Delphinus]

15. Safe passage.

[Leith Wise]

16. Blessed Be, Margot

Drawing Down The Moon was a transformative book in my life. May the Goddess and the God welcome you with open arms.

[Mojorabbit]

26. In mine also. Swift transition Margot. nt

[lisby]

29. I met her last year...

at the Sirius Rising festival in New York. She talked about how she never hid her Wiccan and neopagan spirituality at NPR. She was a model for the rest of us professional female pagans. Merry meet, merry part, and merry meet again, dear lady.

[cilla4progress]

17. As alluded to here...

Ms. Adler was instrumental in showing the way for those interested in exploring the path of paganism, in her seminal book Drawing Down the Moon.

I will miss her voice.

Pass easily, dear one. So young!

[JEFF9K]

18. Margot Adler - one of the faceless names you heard all the time on NPR.

The picture in the linked article shows that she was quite good-looking. A good face for TV. RIP!

[LibertyLover]

20. Go forth shining

To the Summerland. Blessed be.

[JimDandy]

21. Aw nuts... I really liked her reporting.

Her voice was distinctive. What a loss for all of us NPR listeners, especially since NPR isn't what it was when she started in 1979. And it just got worse...sigh.

So long Ms Adler. You will be missed.

[niyad]

22. goddess be with you, dear one. thank you for drawing down the moon for so many.

[niyad]

23. deep peace

[niyad]

24. many beautiful comments and tributes at the end of that article.

I was just recommending "drawing down the moon" to a friend last week.

[locks]

25. Almost every year Margot

came to the Boulder Conference on World Affairs in May on the University of Colorado campus. From all over the nation and world outstanding people pay their own way to be on panels covering everything of current interest. Margot was loved by all but especially young women. She told many great stories about how she became a Wican, her interesting life in NYC, and her many efforts to encourage women in politics and leadership. She never held back from expressing her progressive opinions, even on NPR. She loved joking with Molly Ivins and Roger Ebert before they too left us.

We will miss her and feel blessed to have known such a caring and wise model for journalists and all progressives.

[Eleanors38]

27. Another familiar voice in my background gone.

What replaces it seems more alien, unfamiliar. Then, it is our time.

Sail with the tide and the North Star.

[BowlLikeAChicken]

28. I have a cassette tape or 2 or more with her,

of her days @ WBAI, that's my main memory of her. Too many people I've been influenced by are dying.

She had a kind of comedy show @ BAI that I remember. I know I have several instances of her on tape (hundreds of uncategorized tapes in several boxes going back to the late 70's), she had fun and that came through. She did a show once with some guy from Switzerland that was down right comedy gold, totally sincere (meaning it was not scripted), that one I do have on tape.

If I believed in an after life I'd wish her the best of it.

Does anyone know anything about her wiccan group ?

Condolences to her family and loved ones.