Ashoka: Innovators for the Public,<\/a> a nonprofit network of social entrepreneurs in Washington, D.C. Over a long dinner last Fourth of July (when I took the photo that accompanies this story), he talked about the remarkable innovators he\u2019d met who are working to solve the world's problems solely for the benefit of others. It clearly was a transformative experience for him.<\/p>\n\u201cI will never cease being grateful to Ashoka for what I have learned here in the past year,\u201d he said Tuesday when we reconnected. \u201cIt truly has enriched me and deepened my understanding of what public service should be.\u201d<\/p>\n
Of his new job with Rhode Island Public Radio, where he inherits a tiny staff and an even tinier budget, Malatia simply called it \u201ca delicious challenge.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Without Torey Malatia, there would not be \u201cThis American Life,\u201d and there would not be \"Wait, Wait...Don't Tell Me.\u201d \u00a0There also wouldn\u2019t be this blog. I can\u2019t speak for Ira Glass or Peter Sagal, but I know I have Malatia to thank for the opportunity that changed my life and redefined my career as a... Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8770"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8770"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8770\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8783,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8770\/revisions\/8783"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8770"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8770"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8770"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}