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This January, WNIJ will introduce a new program called 1A, hosted by Joshua Johnson. This live, call-in talk show will air weekdays after Morning Edition.

Johnson says the program will take "an unflinching look at America," addressing race, gender, class and other issues that divide people.

But he says it will provide a safe place to do so. For Johnson, frank discussion of difficult topics requires a forum where all views are respected.

Long-time NPR journalist Guy Raz is best known as host of the TED Radio Hour.  His latest project is a podcast examining the people behind famous companies and brands. 

Raz says the idea for How I Built This came from digging into what he considers a renaissance of American creativity. 

The man who steered NPR through its worst financial crisis has died.

Former WILL General Manager and NPR board chair Donald Mullally led a restructuring of the public radio system and helped build the modern NPR.

Mullally came to the University of Illinois to teach. He taught communications courses on and off throughout his three decades at U of I.

But, because of his background in commercial television, Mullally was recruited to head WILL.