Diane Rehm’s station taps Joshua Johnson, a lesser-known radio host, as her successor

https://www.washingtonpost.com/life...03753c-ab78-11e6-8b45-f8e493f06fcd_story.html


For those of you outside of San Francisco Joshua Johnson was the KQED-FM News Anchor during Morning edition, he also did "The Californoa Report", Forum and even did KQED Newsroom on KQED-TV.

He takes over Diane Rehm's spot.

RadioPatrol said:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/life...03753c-ab78-11e6-8b45-f8e493f06fcd_story.html


For those of you outside of San Francisco Joshua Johnson was the KQED-FM News Anchor during Morning edition, he also did "The Californoa Report", Forum and even did KQED Newsroom on KQED-TV.

He takes over Diane Rehm's spot.

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Correction its "The California Report"

http://current.org/2016/11/celebration-for-diane-rehm-honors-departing-hosts-warmth-grit-and-voice/

Here's a special banquet for Rehm she is leaving WAMU-Fm and doing Podcast specials for WAMU-FM

WAMU General Manager J.J. Yore told The Washington Post, “Diversity was an important factor in creating this new show. It’s not lost on any of us that having a young, African American male leading the conversation on public radio on a national stage is very important.”

nickp said:

WAMU General Manager J.J. Yore told The Washington Post, “Diversity was an important factor in creating this new show. It’s not lost on any of us that having a young, African American male leading the conversation on public radio on a national stage is very important.”

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And he's not the first at WAMU. For many years, the mid-day talk show has been hosted by Kojo Nnamdi, who is very active in DC politics. So basically the entire mid-day, from 10 AM to 2PM, will be hosted by African American men, one young and one middle aged, in a city that is majority African American. But the difference here is that they hope Joshua will be accepted by the stations that carried Diane's show outside of DC.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DOK1_Hvj1Qs

For those of you in Washington DC. Here's Joshua Johnson's doing TV segments for KQED Newsroom.
https://ww2.kqed.org/news/programs/truthbetold/



https://soundcloud.com/kqed/truth-be-told-race-in-the-workplace?in=kqed/sets/so-well-spoken-how-to

Here's his KQED Airchecks for those of you interested. Wow I didn't think Johnson would take over Rehm's spot though. Here in San Francisco I thought Johnson would fit as a potential successor for Michael Krasny of Forum and be a legend in San Francisco. But then again congrats to Johnson on WAMU-FM Hosting gig.


http://www.pbs.org/newshour/bb/american-graduate-july-dec13-amgrad_09-03/

And Johnson has some National Broadcasting experience such as serving as a west coast correspondent for PBS Newshour via a segment that originally aired on KQED Newsroom.

TheBigA said:

But the difference here is that they hope Joshua will be accepted by the stations that carried Diane's show outside of DC.

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My bet is Kojo's show will remain DC-centric, where Joshua will be national topic, as what Diane was focused on. I doubt WAMU will want to jeopardize the current affiliate distribution of Diane's show.