All Things Considered host Ailsa Chang is a public radio nerd through and through. Twenty years ago, she walked away from a promising law career to immerse herself in the world of audio journalism. Chang has reported for WNYC and NPR’s Planet Money and she became co-host of ATC in 2018. Through it all, Chang has remained a true believer in public radio’s ability to create enlightening and passionately crafted stories, and in the importance of the NPR network in American civic life.

Ryan Heinsius: I’m wondering what your public radio origin story is. Did you have a moment that was a specific revelation as far as NPR is concerned?

Ailsa Chang: It was a season. It was fall of 2006. So, I don’t know how much of my backstory you know. I used to be a lawyer, Ryan, and I was a very miserable, u

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