Day to Day
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| Genre | News: analysis, commentary, features, interviews, specials |
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| Running time | ca. 50 min. |
| Country |  United States |
| Languages | English |
| Syndicates | NPR |
| Hosts | Madeleine Brand |
| Directors | Shereen Meraji |
| Producers | Steve Proffitt, Neal Carruth, Sarah Spivack, Martina Castro |
| Executive producers | Deborah Clark |
| Recording studio | NPR West in Culver City, California |
| Air dates | July 2003[1] to March 20, 2009[2] |
| Audio format | Stereophonic |
| Website npr.org/programs/day |
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Day to Day (D2D) is a one-hour weekday American radio newsmagazine distributed by National Public Radio (NPR), and produced by NPR in collaboration with Slate. Madeleine Brand has served as host since 2006. Topics regularly covered by D2D include news, entertainment, politics and the arts; contributors include familiar NPR personalities, reporters from NPR member stations, writers for Slate, and reporters from Marketplace, a show produced by American Public Media. It premiered on Monday, July 28, 2003, and feeds to stations at 9:00 AM PST with updates through 1:00 PM.
On December 10, 2008, NPR announced that Day to Day had been cancelled and would broadcast its final episode on March 20, 2009.[3] According to Dennis Haarsager, NPR's acting CEO, D2D was not "attracting sufficient levels of audience or national underwriting necessary to sustain continued production" now that NPR's projected budget deficit for the 2009 fiscal year had grown from $2 million in July to $23 million in December.[2]
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Background
Day to Day began as a co-production with the then-Microsoft-owned Slate that was "targeted for midday broadcast" and designed to "showcase newsworthy topics with a smart, savvy and spontaneous approach" with a "diverse family of contributors from both NPR News and Slate"; it was the "first program collaboration NPR has initiated with a commercial media outlet in its 33-year history."[1] The partnership was critized in the Online Journalism Review for "possible conflicts on Microsoft coverage (or lack thereof)" and the "cross-media advertisements and underwriting" plans.[4]
Day to Day debuted on public radio stations in July 2003.[1] and was the first NPR newsmagazine produced at NPR West studios in Culver City, California, near Los Angeles.[5]
Format
While Day to Day is divided into segments similar in length to those on Morning Edition and All Things Considered, there are at least two major differences: the C segment is divided into two sections; and the program has a shorter total running time -- one hour compared to two for the larger newsmagazines.
Day to Day begins with a sixty-second billboard, wherein Alex Chadwick and Madeleine Brand talk about what will be coming up on the show. The billboard is followed by the standard NPR newscast from one minute past to six minutes past the hour. Some stations utilize the last 2.5 minutes of the newscast to deliver local midday news reports. A thirty-second music bed follows, and then Segment A begins.
Segment A (duration 12:29) contains the top story of the day, and usually synopses of longer-term issues viewed through the lens of current events. Segment topics can range from the American judicial system to economics to geopolitics to conversations with notable newsmakers, and more. Segment A closes at nineteen minutes past the hour and leads into a two-minute station break.
At twenty-one after, Segment B (duration 7:49) begins. Segment B composes the remainder of the first half-hour, and as such continues coverage on important news events of the day, or segues into lighter culturally or socially relevant stories. Segment B closes at 28:50 past the hour, and goes into a local break until the bottom of the hour.
At half past the hour, Day to Day returns with Segment C1 (duration 5:14), usually reserved for updates on stories presented in the first half-hour, or different angles on major news stories. Segment C2 (duration 3:59) is home to the Marketplace report, a discussion about an item of business news with a reporter from Marketplace, capped with a short preview of that evening's program. C2 ends at 39:30 after the hour.
Following another thirty-second music break, Day to Day enters Segment D (duration 8:59). There is little specificity to the content of Segment D; stories can range from international and domestic issues to long-term reports on a variety of topics. Segment D runs from forty minutes to forty-nine minutes past the hour, and another two-minute station break ensues.
Segment E (duration 8:20) begins at fifty-one minutes past the hour. For the show's first three years, it was divided into Segments E1 and E2, which lasted roughly three and a half minutes each. On February 20, 2007, Day to Day combined the two E segments into one long one. Segment E is usually devoted to commentary and light features, including "The Unger Report," a satirical take on news and current events. Time permitting, Segment E is followed up by the credits, and Day to Day comes to a close.
Personnel
Hosts
For its first two and a half years, Day to Day was usually hosted by either longtime NPR host and correspondent Alex Chadwick or NPR news host Madeleine Brand. On January 16, 2006, Chadwick and Brand began co-hosting each program together.[6]
On Friday, November 7, 2008, Chadwick anchored his final broadcast on the show. Brand will continue to anchor the remainder of Day to Day's run, along with rotating co-hosts.
NPR personalities Noah Adams, Alex Cohen and Mike Pesca often serve as substitute hosts for the program.
Staff
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Contributors
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References
- ^ a b c "NPR and Slate Magazine to Produce Weekday Radio Program Day to Day Premieres in July 2003". National Public Radio (12 May 2003).
- ^ a b Steve Proffitt. NPR: RIP D2D. 10 December 2008. Accessed 10 December 2008. National Public Radio.
- ^ National Public Radio (10 December 2008). NPR Announces Cuts to Staff, Programs. Press release. http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=98095326. Retrieved on 2008-12-10.
- ^ Slate, NPR Partnership Could Be More Big Media Than Public Radio, a June 3, 2003 article by Mark Glaser from Online Journalism Review
- ^ National Public Radio (16 October 2002). NPR Establishes Major Production Center in California NPR West Opens November 2, Expanding Network's Presence and Reach. Press release. http://www.npr.org/about/press/021016.nprwest.html. Retrieved on 2007-09-17.
- ^ Luke Burbank. The Growing Popularity of Laughter Therapy (.MP3) [Audio]. Day to Day, NPR. Retrieved on 2007-09-17. Event occurs at 00:04:06.
- ^ Brian Unger's "Unger Report" from the NPR website
- ^ Michelle Singletary's "Color of Money" financial segments from the NPR website
- ^ Xeni Jardin's "Xeni Tech" from the NPR website
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