Susan Kaplan’s broadcast career began in commercial radio, first as an account executive and later on the air at WHYN AM with her own show. Her distinguished time in public radio began at WFCR, now New England Public Media in western Massachusetts. During her two-decade tenure, she hosted "All Things Considered," "Morning Edition,” and “The Short List,” while also working as a feature reporter. She subsequently spent a year at WGBH Radio in Boston developing and fulfilling the new role of Night Editor.
Kaplan’s radio stories have been heard nationally, airing on NPR's "Morning Edition," "All Things Considered," "On the Media," "Only A Game," and “Here and Now,” as well as PRI's "The World" and "Marketplace."
For six years, Kaplan hosted "Watercooler," a weekly public affairs program on WGBY Public Television serving Western New England. She has received numerous Associated Press Broadcaster's awards notably a first-place award in 2014 for her feature “A Moment With World War II POWs.”
In 2010, Kaplan was awarded an Ochberg Fellowship from the Dart Center for Journalism and Trauma at Columbia University, which supported her reporting on women in the military. Since then, she has continued to report about veterans from the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq.
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Kaplan’s father Stan Kaplan was a pioneer of top 40 radio. He was a sales manager at WMEX in Boston and later, with his wife Sis Kaplan, owned BIG WAYS 61 and WROQ in Charlotte, North Carolina.