Open Partnership Education Network and Aresty Family, in collaboration with WUSF Public Media, The Poynter Institute and the The Community Foundation of Tampa Bay presented a live broadcast of NPR’s 1A featuring Aresty Speaker Joshua Johnson. NPR’s 1A is one of the most important daily topical review shows in America.A Florida native, Joshua Johnson is a journalist, public radio innovator and host of the program “1A,” prduced by WAMU in Washington D.C. and nationally distributed by NPR. Earlier in his career, he helped launch a unique regional news partnership between Miami’s NPR station, WLRN, and The Miami Herald, served for over five years as morning news host for KQED in San Francisco and co-created and hosted the provocative nationwide public radio series, “Truth Be Told.”

The community was invited to be a part of the live broadcast on February 11 at The University of South Florida St. Petersburg’s University Student Center (USC).

 

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