Carl Kasell
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Carl Kasell with a stuffed duck after a broadcast of Wait Wait... Don't Tell Me!
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| Born |
April 2, 1934 Goldsboro, North Carolina, U.S.A. |
| Residence | Washington, D.C. |
| Nationality | United States |
| Occupation | Radio Newscaster |
| Employer | NPR |
| Spouse(s) | Mary Ann Kasell |
Carl Kasell (/ˈkæsəl/; born April 2, 1934) is an American radio personality, most widely known as a newscaster for National Public Radio and as the former official judge and scorekeeper of the weekly news quiz show Wait Wait... Don't Tell Me! Kasell left Wait Wait... Don't Tell Me! in 2014 and is now retired.
A native of Goldsboro, North Carolina, Kasell was a student of drama in high school, where one of his mentors was Andy Griffith, then a high school drama instructor. Although Griffith urged Kasell to pursue a career in theatre, Kasell preferred radio. During his time at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, he helped launch local radio station WUNC with fellow student Charles Kuralt.
In an interview with Renée Montagne, just before his final broadcast on NPR's Morning Edition, Kasell revealed that he knew he would be in radio at a young age. He said that he hid behind the radio to fool passers-by into thinking they were listening to the radio when they in fact were hearing the young Kasell.
Kasell worked as an announcer and DJ at a radio station in Goldsboro, North Carolina before moving to the Washington, DC area in 1965. He is a member of the North Carolina Journalism Hall of Fame.
After leaving North Carolina, Kasell advanced to the position of news director at WAVA (AM) in Arlington, Virginia. As news director in Virginia, he hired Katie Couric, then a student at the University of Virginia, as an intern one summer, which was the start of her career in news broadcasting.
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