Caroline Richard Simon toggle caption Caroline Richard Simon Part of a collage of images of Scott Simon reporting for NPR News from Cuba, San Salvador and Iraq. Caroline Richard Simon I first heard of National Public Radio when it broadcast the Senate hearings into the Watergate scandal live, in the summer of 1973. I was hooked; and stayed on to hear the effervescence of Susan Stamberg on All Things Considered, the rock-steadiness of Bob Edwards and the sharp insights of Linda Wertheimer, Nina Totenberg and Cokie Roberts, at a time when the voices of women in the news business were scarce.