“Editing is crucial because in my experience anything you try to make - what YOU want is for the story to be AMAZING. But what the story wants to be is MEDIOCRE OR WORSE. And the entire process of making the story is convincing the story to not be what it wants to be, which is BAD.”

A profile of the radio legend who helped launch the career of Ira Glass and many more.

On public radio and the emerging genre of shows inspired by This American Life.