How NPR’s Newsroom Reinvented Itself on 9/11 in Real Time: “Get on the Air”
- Posted on March 3, 2025
- By Vanity Fair
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How NPR’s Newsroom Reinvented Itself on 9/11 in Real Time: “Get on the Air”

In an excerpt from his new book, ‘On Air,’ Steve Oney writes that the network was “paralyzed” when the tragedy struck. It eventually scrambled to assemble a live-news operation, one former editor recalls, after member stations “went batshit.”