{"id":167808,"date":"2025-09-19T14:57:21","date_gmt":"2025-09-19T14:57:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/167808\/"},"modified":"2025-09-19T14:57:21","modified_gmt":"2025-09-19T14:57:21","slug":"clay-masters-named-new-host-for-mprs-all-things-considered","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/167808\/","title":{"rendered":"Clay Masters named new host for MPR&#8217;s &#8216;All Things Considered&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"rt-Text\">MPR\u2019s \u201cAll Things Considered\u201d has revealed its next host.<\/p>\n<p class=\"rt-Text\">Clay Masters, who has served as a political correspondent at the station since early 2024, will move into the seat, anchoring local stories that are reported during breaks from the national program, a staple on NPR stations since 1971.<\/p>\n<p class=\"rt-Text\">Masters replaces Tom Crann, who announced in  April that he was moving over to YourClassical MPR after 20 years at \u201cAll Things Considered.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"rt-Text\">\u201c\u2018All Things Considered\u2019 was the public radio show I listened to regularly,\u201d Masters said in a news release. \u201cI look forward to being the local host in Minnesota for a program I\u2019ve long respected.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"rt-Text\">Masters previously worked at Iowa Public Radio, where he eventually hosted IPR\u2019s \u201cMorning Edition.\u201d He hails from Nebraska.<\/p>\n<p class=\"rt-Text\">\u201cWe needed someone who connects with audiences on a personal level and embodies our commitment to fact-based, nonpartisan journalism,\u201d MPR programming director Stephanie Curtis said. \u201cClay is exactly that.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"rt-Text\">The news comes as some smaller public radio stations are reacting to end of federal funding for public media by cutting back on costs to carry NPR shows. According to an NPR News story, stations in Alabama, Oregon and Florida are dropping their affiliation with the mothership.<\/p>\n<p class=\"rt-Text\">Masters starts his new gig on Sept. 29. \u201cAll Things Considered\u201d runs in the Twin Cities from 3 to 6 p.m. on 91.1 FM.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"MPR\u2019s \u201cAll Things Considered\u201d has revealed its next host. Clay Masters, who has served as a political correspondent&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":167809,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[71],"tags":[427,99],"class_list":["post-167808","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-golf","tag-golf","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167808","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=167808"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167808\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/167809"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=167808"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=167808"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=167808"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}