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'Morning Edition' welcomes Michel Martin to the host team

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NPR's Michel Martin will start her new job on Monday. An NPR luminary², she was most recently Saturday and Sunday host of NPR's All Things Considered.

LEILA FADEL, HOST:

Starting Monday, this program has a new co-host. Rachel Martin has stepped into a new role here, and Michel Martin comes here to MORNING EDITION.

STEVE INSKEEP, HOST:

Longtime NPR listeners know Michel's voice. She's been with this network since 2006. She launched the program Tell Me More and then, for the past eight years, hosted All Things Considered on the weekends, meaning she's been my companion in the car as I drive my kids around.

FADEL: Michel started her career at The Washington Post, also reported for The Wall Street Journal and ABC News before coming to NPR. But the bullet points on our colleague's resume, they really don't measure her impact here. She mentors³ younger staff. She presses to find new stories. She speaks to and reflects new audiences. And finally, her career has advanced to the point where she gets to work the worst hours in journalism⁴.

INSKEEP: Way to go. At a staff meeting the other day, Michel told us she wanted to shake herself up.

MICHEL MARTIN, BYLINE⁵: Look; it's time for a new adventure. I think it's - I think our work, fundamentally, is about what is happening in the world. And I think that if we kind of fall into patterns, then how are we really open to what is really happening in the world? So I just think that, you know, when you have the opportunity to do something new, you should do it. And I also feel, frankly⁶, to set an example. I mean, how am I going to tell our younger, less experienced colleagues to be brave and do something hard if we're not willing to do something hard and be brave?

FADEL: Looking at all that you've done, what is it about public radio that keeps you a part of it for all these years?

MARTIN: Well, first of all, I think it's the intimacy⁷, and it's the reach.

FADEL: Yeah.

MARTIN: I mean, our colleagues are all over the world. We're all over the world. But it's very intimate, you know? We're literally⁸ in your ear. One of my - a really distinguished⁹ radio host deejay in the Washington, D.C., area gave me some really good advice when I came into radio. He said - you know, he'd also worked in television. He said, you know what? Television is to the room; radio is to one person.

INSKEEP: Yeah.

MARTIN: That's why you'll never hear me say, you guys, you all, everybody out there. He's - no, I'm talking to one person. And really, at the end of it, that's what this is. No matter how many people are actually out there, we're really talking to one person. And there's just something about that - the intimacy of the relationship that feels really powerful. So one of the things that I really appreciate about public media, public radio in particular, is that we are everywhere. But we're also with you. And we are with you in the times when you really need us to be with you. I mean, there are times of great sorrow. We are with you. In times of great joy, you know, we are with you. And there's just something really profound about that.

FADEL: Speaking of being a crier, that got me a little emotional.

INSKEEP: Yeah.

FADEL: In times of great sorrow and in times of great joy. The GOAT, the legend, joins us Monday on MORNING EDITION as our co-host.

MARTIN: No pressure at all, Leila.

FADEL: Just a little bit.

INSKEEP: Get some rest this weekend.

MARTIN: (Laughter) Thank you both.

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1 transcript   

n.抄本，誊本，副本，肄业证书

参考例句：

• A transcript of the tapes was presented as evidence in court.一份录音带的文字本作为证据被呈交法庭。
• They wouldn't let me have a transcript of the interview.他们拒绝给我一份采访的文字整理稿。

2 luminary   

n.名人，天体

参考例句：

• That luminary gazed earnestly at some papers before him.那个大好佬在用心细看面前的报纸。
• Now that a new light shone upon the horizon,this older luminary paled in the west.现在东方地平线上升起了一轮朝阳，这弯残月就在西边天际失去了光泽。

3 mentors   

n.（无经验之人的）有经验可信赖的顾问( mentor的名词复数 )v.（无经验之人的）有经验可信赖的顾问( mentor的第三人称单数 )

参考例句：

• Beacham and McNamara, my two mentors, had both warned me. 我的两位忠实朋友，比彻姆和麦克纳马拉都曾经警告过我。 来自辞典例句
• These are the kinds of contacts that could evolve into mentors. 这些人是可能会成为你导师。 来自互联网

4 journalism   

n.新闻工作，报业

参考例句：

• He's a teacher but he does some journalism on the side.他是教师，可还兼职做一些新闻工作。
• He had an aptitude for journalism.他有从事新闻工作的才能。

5 byline   

n.署名；v.署名

参考例句：

• His byline was absent as well.他的署名也不见了。
• We wish to thank the author of this article which carries no byline.我们要感谢这篇文章的那位没有署名的作者。

6 frankly   

adv.坦白地，直率地；坦率地说

参考例句：

• To speak frankly, I don't like the idea at all.老实说，我一点也不赞成这个主意。
• Frankly speaking, I'm not opposed to reform.坦率地说，我不反对改革。

7 intimacy   

n.熟悉，亲密，密切关系，亲昵的言行

参考例句：

• His claims to an intimacy with the President are somewhat exaggerated.他声称自己与总统关系密切，这有点言过其实。
• I wish there were a rule book for intimacy.我希望能有个关于亲密的规则。

8 literally   

adv.照字面意义，逐字地；确实

参考例句：

• He translated the passage literally.他逐字逐句地翻译这段文字。
• Sometimes she would not sit down till she was literally faint.有时候，她不走到真正要昏厥了，决不肯坐下来。

9 distinguished   

adj.卓越的，杰出的，著名的

参考例句：

• Elephants are distinguished from other animals by their long noses.大象以其长长的鼻子显示出与其他动物的不同。
• A banquet was given in honor of the distinguished guests.宴会是为了向贵宾们致敬而举行的。