J.J. Sutherland is the Executive Producer of NPR's Day to Day, a new daily newsmagazine hosted by Alex Chadwick that launches on July 28 on a public radio station near you. J.J. has done a number of different things at NPR, including launching The Tavis Smiley Show, and working on coverage of the recent war and events surrounding 9/11.

J.J. came to NPR in 2000 to launch The Way In a daily show on Sirius Satellite Radio. Before that he was the producer of On The Media in New York, and before that was part of the team that launched The Connection at WBUR in Boston in 1994. J.J. attended a couple of colleges and universities long enough to establish a mutual antipathy with academia, but not long enough to graduate.

He smokes heavily, drinks way too much coffee, and is convinced that Lucas has a secret master plan to make the next Star Wars movie the best ever.

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