Sheilah Kast
Host, On The RecordSheilah Kast hosts On The Record, Monday-Friday, 9:30-10:00 am. She came to WYPR from NPR 2006. In 2014 she and her team at Maryland Morning won a prestigious Dupont-Columbia University award for a year-long probe of inequality in the Baltimore region called “The Lines Between Us.” Sheilah learned how to report the news at The Washington Star, and learned the craft of broadcasting at ABC News, where she covered the White House, Congress, and the 1991 Moscow coup that signaled the end of the Soviet empire. She has launched and hosted two weekly interview shows on public TV.
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Baltimore author Laura Lippman talks about her latest novel. -
A new Netflix documentary shows how Ed Sullivan did more than launch careers on his variety show--he used it as a platform to fight racism. -
What do cuts in food stamps and Medicaid, the denial of emergency aid to flood victims, the end of public-broadcasting funds mean for western Maryland? We ask Congresswoman April McClain Delaney. -
Maryland libraries get millions of federal dollars for some of their most creative projects, and they’re fighting to hang onto it. -
A view from a BGE regulatory expert about why electric bills are rising. -
Author Elaine Weiss talks about her new book, 'Spell Freedom.' -
Maryland author Kate Myers' latest turns ecological collapse amid family and class tension into a fun mystery! -
Maryland’s new health secretary is dealing with cuts in Medicaid, health disparities, opioid overdoses and other challenges. How is she approaching it all? -
Gateway 2 Change is a 24/7 hotline that provides help for those who feel they might harm someone they love. We hear how it works. -
We talk with JHU Prof. Martha S. Jones about a very personal meditation on her own family, and her own experience navigating a color line she describes as jagged, shifting and threatening.
