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4 unusual facts about Krista Tippett


Jessica Nordell

From 2006-2007, Nordell was a freelance journalist and the associate producer for Speaking of Faith with Krista Tippett,.

Krista Tippett

In 1984, she went to divided Berlin as a stringer for The New York Times and established herself there as a freelance foreign correspondent—reporting and writing in those years for The Times, Newsweek, the BBC, the International Herald Tribune, and Die Zeit.

Tippett first pitched the idea of an intelligent, in-depth program about diverse religious energies and ideas to Bill Buzenberg at Minnesota Public Radio in 1998.

Tippett was an exchange student in then-Communist East Germany in 1982 and later a Fulbright scholar in Bonn, the capital of West Germany.



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