sarah laduke

Today is the last day of the producer of The Roundtable Sarah LaDuke. She has worked at WAMC for 20 years and worked on the Roundtable for 18. Her career at WAMC has been amazing and extensive. She has done countless interviews with organizations, artists, musicians, Broadway stars, authors, and the list goes on. She also worked hard behind the scenes to make The Roundtable run smoothy all these years.She will be sorely missed, but her history and career at the station will live forever.

As long expected, President Donald Trump has signed an executive order aimed at cutting public funding that goes to PBS and NPR. Trump complains that the outlets are biased. WAMC/Northeast Public Radio is among the hundreds of public media outlets nationwide that have been preparing for such a move.On today's Roundtable Panel Joe Donahue discusses the order and WAMC's future with WAMC's CEO Sarah Gilbert, Roundtable Producer Sarah LaDuke, former Vice President for Editorial Development at the New York Press Association Judy Patrick, and CEO of The Business Council of New York State Heather Mulligan.

As we mark the 25th Anniversary of The Roundtable, we share some archival audio and reminisce. We share Susan Arbetter's pieces on The Spirituals Project and The Flying Trapeze, Joe Donahue's stories about New Yorker cartoonists and Sesame Street, and Sarah LaDuke's interview with Lin-Manuel Miranda.

The Roundtable Panel: a daily open discussion of issues in the news and beyond. Today's panelists are public policy and communications expert Theresa Bourgeois, Tetherless World Professor of Computer Web and Cognigtive Sciences at RPI Jim Hendler, and Senior fellow at the Center for Civic Engagement at Bard College Ambassador Fred Hof.