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NPR Producer Jonathan 'Smokey' Baer Retires After 45 Years

NPR
Published August 31, 2018 at 5:36 PM EDT

Audio producer Jonathan "Smokey" Baer is retiring from NPR after 45 years. We're really going to miss him, so we're making a note of what his work has meant to NPR.

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