Making the change to complete darkness as an adult is a relatively easy process that mainly involves figuring out how to make the bedroom dark. The process isnât always so easy for children, especially for children who are used to a night light or who have a fear of the dark. With all the research showing the importance of night time darkness, I felt strongly that this was something I wanted my kids to do.
The Takeawayâs Washington correspondent Todd Zwillich will host as WNYC searches for Hockenberryâs replacement. Hockenberryâs final broadcasts will air the week of Aug. 7. Hockenberry spent 12 years as an NPR correspondent starting in 1980. He also reported for NBC News and ABC News before joining WNYC in 2007.
NEW YORK --A former public radio host in New York City who left his show earlier this year has been accused of sexual misconduct by an author and some of his former colleagues. Suki Kim said she met former WNYC The Takeaway host John Hockenberry in 2014 as a guest on the radio program. He later sent her a series of emails that made her uncomfortable, asking for her home address so he could write her letters and entitling a subject line: Need another dose of you, she wrote in an article published on New York Magazine's website.