For 40 years, NPR’s “Morning Edition” has welcomed listeners to the program with the same airy theme song. On Monday, that will change. “It’s not a decision that we took on lightly,” said Meg Goldthwaite, NPR’s chief marketing officer. “We wanted to freshen the music and get it ready for what we hope will be another 50 years. It just felt like it was time.”

Source: New York Times May 05, 2019 15:56 UTC