BOXFORD – The Salem Literary Festival (Salem LIt Fest 2020) is a huge event that gathers authors and speakers from almost everywhere. This year, due to the-virus-that-shall-not-be-named-here, the Salem Lit Fest will be all-virtual, beginning Thursday, September 10.
With more on the story, we turn to a trustee of the Salem Anthanaeum, Massachsetts Hall of Fame broadcaster, Diane Stern
Podcast on Salem Lit Fest with Diane Stern
One of the great, steady voices of all time in Boston radio is the North Shore’s Diane Stern’s. For so many years, her voice was THE reassuring source of morning and/or afternoon news on WBZ Radio. In a podcast with Rick Moore, she talks about some of her experiences that culminated in her being selected as a member of the Massachusetts Broadcasters Hall of Fame as well as her continuing participation in promoting education and culture in eastern Massachusetts.
Podcast with WBZ news anchor Diane Stern
Diane Stern
Diane Stern anchored the news at WBZ NewsRadio from 1983 to 2016. During her more than three decades there, Stern brought listeners the news of some of the region’s most historic stories. From Presidential elections and the New Hampshire primaries, to the Gulf Wars, to the 9-11 attacks, the capture of James “Whitey” Bulger, and the Boston Marathon bombings. Stern was one of New England’s “go-to” journalists when people needed straightforward, unbiased reporting. Stern also specialized in covering stories involving the vast changes in the medical world. She focused on the research and development of new treatments for diseases as well as new technologies that made the jobs of healthcare providers easier. Recently, Stern won the 2017 Regional Edward R. Murrow Award for Best Newscast. Prior to joining WBZ News Radio, she worked as a morning anchor at WEEI Radio in Boston from 1978 to 1983, WITS and WMEX Radio in Boston from 1976 to 1978, and WMLO Radio in Danvers, Massachusetts from 1975 to 1976. Stern has also been honored with several Associated Press awards for her work in radio, was a finalist in the New York Radio Festival Awards and won for Best Newscaster in the March of Dimes Achievement in Radio Awards of 2000. One of the highlights of her career was covering the New England Blizzard of 1978 for WMEX Radio when the broadcasts were conducted by phone in candlelit studios. Stern also conducted a live interview with President Clinton in 1995. Stern is a Board of Trustees member of and an ESL tutor at the Immigrant Learning Center in an ESL tutor at the Immigrant Learning Center in Malden, and she emcees events for charitable groups including The Arthritis Foundation, the Preeclampsia Foundation, the Salem Literary Festival (Salem Lit Fest), and the Alzheimer’s Association, MA/NH Chapter. Stern is a voice-over artist and is currently the voice of health information for Tufts Medical Center in Boston.
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Massachusetts Broadcasters Hall of Fame
