Longtime NPR correspondent Ina Jaffe has died. She was 75 years old, and had been living with cancer for the past few years.
Even if you were only half-listening to the radio, you always knew when NPR correspondent Ina Jaffe was on the air. Ina's rich alto voiceyou listen — whether she was reporting on politics, a high profile criminal trial, or, toward the end of her career, describing the advances in aging for a beat she created because she saw the need for it.
That insistence on getting it right led to tough questions for elected officials at all levels, and myriad public servants who wished Ina had been a little less exacting in her coverage of them.Although she sounded as if she’d rolled out of the womb with a microphone in hand, Ina actually had another career before coming to NPR. Scott Simon, an old friend and host of NPR's Weekend Edition Saturday, recalls he first met Ina when NPR opened its Chicago bureau in the late 1970s.
Jacki Lyden is a former NPR correspondent, and one of Ina's best friends. She says when Ina expressed an interest in working at NPR, she wondered initially whether the actor could make the jump from theater to hard news. Jacki soon realized she didn't need to worry: Ina's gift for dramatic narrative was a transferable skill.
And she supported everyone in their own searches to get it right. Fellow Chicagoan Sonari Glinton sat near Ina at NPR West in Culver City, Calif., for years. He covered the car industry and made national news when he reported on a Volkswagen scandal: the company had tinkered with its new diesel models to make the mileage artificially high. An angry VW publicist called to complain and Sonari says Ina overheard him trying to reason with the publicist.
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