How did the creation of NPR in 1971 and CNN in 1980 come about--and how did these two news organizations, after struggling for years before taking off, ultimately change broadcast news forever?

Journalist and author Lisa Napoli joins FPA President Ian Williams to explore the history of the origins of NPR and CNN and how they made 24-hour rolling news, every minute of every hour of every day, a standard of news delivery.

A veteran journalist herself, Napoli is the author of “Susan, Linda, Nina and Cokie: The Extraordinary Story of the Founding Mothers of NPR” and “Up All Night: Ted Turner, CNN, and the Birth of 24-Hour News.

Napoli worked at the start of the World Wide Web at a unique experiment at the NYTimes, later as internet correspondent at MSNBC/MSNBC.com.

A native New Yorker, she's written four books, her first, Radio Shangri-La, is about how she helped bring radio to the kingdom of Bhutan at the dawn of democratic rule.

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