91勛圖厙Radio Launches New Original Podcast, Autisms First Child, Which Traces The History Of Autism
Premiering Today, The Series is Hosted by Award-Winning Journalists Caren Zucker and John Donvan
Listen to the First Episode
NEW YORK, NY (April 14, 2022) -- 91勛圖厙Radio, the No. 1 podcast publisher globally according to , today announced the launch of a new original podcast, , hosted by award-winning journalists, Caren Zucker and John Donvan.
Each week, Zucker and Donvan will trace the history of Autism through the first person ever diagnosed, Donald Triplett, and hear from the rural community that helped raise him. Donald Tripletts story is one about empathy and understanding -- now 88 years old, he has lived a full and happy life in Forest, Mississippi. Listeners will meet Triplett, hear about his remarkable life, and his diagnosis that changed history.
"Its a story with so many layers and side roads that being able to tell it over many episodes gives us a whole story that is greater than parts, said Donvan.
When we went looking for the first child diagnosed with autism, we had no idea it would turn out to be such a beautiful story, said Zucker.
Zucker and Donvan are also the authors of the book, In A Different Key: The Story of Autism, which was a Pulitzer Prize Finalist in General Nonfiction and producers of the documentary by the same name.
Autisms First Child is now available on and all major podcast platforms. Subscribe to listen .
About Caren Zucker
Caren Zucker is a director, producer and journalist who has told stories for more than 25 years across a broad range of subjects both domestically and internationally. As a producer for ABCs World News and Nightline, working alongside Peter Jennings, Charlie Gibson and Diane Sawyer, she covered civil rights, presidential campaigns, economic issues and social trends. She was honored for her role in ABCs coverage of 9/11 with two of televisions most prestigious prizes, the Peabody and the Alfred L. DuPont awards. Zucker was the producer and co-writer of PBS NewsHour series Autism Now. Her oldest son Mickeys autism diagnosis inspired a new direction in her reporting: to bring a better understanding of autisms realities.
About John Donvan
John Donvan is a veteran network correspondent and producer for ABC, CNN and PBS, and host and moderator of the Intelligence Squared U.S. Debates, which are heard on public radio and by podcast. He has also been a contributing editor to The Atlantic. During his journalism career, in addition to anchoring various ABC broadcasts, John served as chief White House correspondent, and held multiyear postings in London, Moscow, Jerusalem and Amman, Jordan. He wrote and reported for the documentary program Turning Point. The winner of four Emmys and the Overseas Press Club Award, he became interested in autisms impact on families upon meeting his wife, physician and medical school professor Ranit Mishori, who grew up in Israel with a brother profoundly affected by autism, He has two children and lives in Washington, DC.