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Lisa Napoli | |
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| Born | Brooklyn, New York |
| Nationality | American |
| Education | Hampshire College, City University of New York, |
| Occupation(s) | Author, journalist, host |
| Website | lisanapoli |
Lisa Napoli is an American author, journalist, and radio host. She has worked at the New York Times, CNN, MSNBC, American Public Media, and KCRW. Napoli is the author of Radio Shangri-La, Up All Night, Susan, Linda, Nina & Cokie, and Ray & Joan.[1][2][3]
Early life and education
editLisa Napoli was born and raised in Brooklyn, New York. She attended PS 179, Ditmas JHS, and Midwood High School. Following high school, she attended Hampshire College, where she received a bachelor of arts in 1984. At Hampshire College, Napoli studied liberal arts and news in different media.[2]
In 2021, she was enrolled at the CUNY Graduate Center, pursuing a master of arts in biography and memoir.
Career
editNapoli began her career as a journalist in 1981 by joining CNN as an intern. She then became a video journalist at Headline News at CNN’s headquarters in Atlanta in 1984.
In 1986, Napoli was hired as a news producer at WGHP-TV, where she worked until 1988. As a freelance field producer, she worked at a variety of outlets including Medical News Network and The Paula Poundstone Show. In 1992, she covered Bill Clinton’s campaign and, later, the Waco massacre in 1993.
After serving as a founding producer of Q2 Resource Television, a division of QVC, Napoli joined Delphi Internet Services, which had just been acquired by News Corp, as a Director of Content Development. After that she moved to the New York Times Electronic Media Company as a reporter and columnist.[4] She was one of the first journalists in the United States to cover the early dot-com era and the only full-time staff writer at Cybertimes. In 1999, Napoli an on-air internet correspondent and columnist at MSNBC/MSNBC.com, where she wrote "Napoli on the Net." In 2004, she joined American Public Media, where she served as a reporter and substitute host for the public radio show, Marketplace.
Next, Napoli served as an arts and culture correspondent at KCRW.
As an active member of the Biographers International Organization, Napoli helped co-create the group’s podcast. She teaches memoir-writing classes and works to shape and write memoirs for hire. She is a frequent speaker about her books and writing.
For over five years, Napoli led a cooking club at a non-profit organization, Downtown Women’s Center. [iii]
Publications
editNapoli published her first book, Radio Shangri-La: What I Learned in Bhutan, the Happiest Kingdom on Earth, in 2010, describing her experiences and society in Bhutan, where she’d been invited to help start a radio station at the dawn of democratic rule.[5]
Her next book, in 2016, was Ray & Joan: The Man Who Made the McDonald’s Fortune and the Woman Who Gave It All Away.[6] The book focuses on the lives of the couple, Ray and Joan Kroc.
In 2020, she published Up All Night: Ted Turner, CNN, and the Birth of 24-Hour News, a biography of the founder of CNN and the history of the development of broadcast journalism in the United States.[7] Napoli next wrote a group biography and the founding story of NPR titled Susan, Linda, Nina, and Cokie: The Extraordinary Story of the Founding Mothers of NPR, published in 2021.[8]
References
edit- ^ Greenberg, Zoe (2021-04-13). "The Women of NPR, When NPR Was a Start-Up". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2024-04-24.
- ^ a b André, Lisa (2018-08-30). "More than hamburgers: Author unveils history of McDonald's roots in Santa Ynez". Santa Maria Times. Retrieved 2024-04-24.
- ^ "Focus: New book, movie about San Diego's Joan and Ray Kroc". San Diego Union-Tribune. 2016-11-26. Retrieved 2024-04-24.
- ^ "Reporter Biography: Lisa Napoli". The New York Times. Retrieved 2024-04-25.
- ^ Napoli, L. (2010). Radio Shangri-La: What I Learned in the Happiest Kingdom on Earth. Crown Publishers. ISBN 978-0-307-95346-9. Retrieved 2024-05-14.
- ^ The Washington Post. 2016-12-16 https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/an-odd-but-generous-couple-ray-and-joan-kroc/2016/12/16/cab83b62-ab5f-11e6-8b45-f8e493f06fcd_story.html.
{{cite news}}: Missing or empty|title=(help) - ^ Napoli, L. (2020). Up All Night: Ted Turner, CNN, and the Birth of 24-Hour News. ABRAMS. ISBN 978-1-68335-826-8. Retrieved 2024-05-14.
- ^ "'Founding Mothers' of NPR Recount Trailblazing Early Days of Public Radio". National Archives. 16 April 2021. Retrieved 2024-04-25.