Radiogirl Podcast – Illinois News Broadcasters Association

INBA Podcast: Dave Marsett talks radio career as he retires from WBBM

Administrator — Wed, 04 Aug 2021 02:48:21 +0000

After 20 years, Dave Marsett is retiring from WBBM Newsradio. He has worked in radio for half a century as a news director, reporter, and broadcaster at stations including WYSL in Buffalo, New York.

In this interview with Margaret Larkin, Marsett talks about everything from radio, marriage and relationships, and his journey to becoming a minister.

Marsett remarked he always said, “I do the good news on Sunday, I talk about the bad news the rest of the week.”

“What is news? It’s the extreme of either good or bad,” he said.

Marsett also talks about social media, bias, and the memorable lessons of his career.

INBA Podcast: Bob Roberts

Administrator — Fri, 05 Apr 2019 16:36:39 +0000

Bob Roberts is retiring from WBBM Newsradio in Chicago to move down south, where he will probably continue as a freelance reporter and journalist. He talks about his long news career reporting in major markets at radio stations WINS, WMET, WDHF, WYEN, WBBM, and WMAQ in New York and Chicago, and for City News Bureau. He's also been very active in the INBA as the FOIA/OMA Chair and coordinating the JobFile.

Bob is interviewed by Margaret Larkin. Margaret is currently a producer at WBBM Radio in Chicago, and has also worked at WGN. She has been producing the Radiogirl Podcast for several years. This is the second episode she has produced for INBA. Please take a listen, and let us know if there are any other INBA members you'd like her to interview. Thanks!

Listen to the podcast and subscribe on the INBA Soundcloud page.

Bob Roberts at the INBA Fall 2018 Convention in Springfield.

(Photo by Lee Millner)

INBA Podcast: Charlie Wheeler

Administrator — Mon, 28 Jan 2019 17:28:06 +0000

Charlie Wheeler is a professor at the University of Illinois Springfield, where he is Director of the Public Affairs Reporting Program. He talks about his reporting career with the Chicago Sun-Times, how he got into journalism, the newspaper business, how the media has changed, why it's better to be right than fast, and advice for journalists. He was interviewed at the INBA fall 2018 conference in Springfield by Margaret Larkin.

Margaret is currently a producer at WBBM Radio in Chicago, and has also worked at WGN. She has been producing the Radiogirl Podcast for several years. This is the first episode she has produced specifically for us at INBA. Please take a listen, and let us know if there are any other INBA members you'd like her to interview. Thanks!

Listen to the podcast and subscribe on the INBA Soundcloud page.

Margaret Larkin interviewing Charlie Wheeler at the INBA Fall 2018 Convention in Springfield