We are heartbroken by Chicago Public Media’s refusal to keep Worldview on the air, at any time and in any format. You can read about the outpouring of support for Worldview and Chicago Public Media’s response here.
As we say goodbye to Worldview, let’s celebrate it’s incredible legacy and give thanks! Because of Worldview, we know the world and our neighbors better. We’ve done so much more than listen – we’ve learned, grown, and engaged as an empowered community.
So please, take a minute to write a short thank you to the Worldview team, including host Jerome McDonnell, senior producer Steve Bynum, and producer Julian Hayda. We’ll make sure that they see it! Thank you.
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Jerome, Steve and Julian, I was shocked and so saddened by the removal of Worldview. Thank you for bringing the World and so many views into our homes.
Jerome, Steve and Julian:. I am deeply grateful to you for introducing me to so many interesting people with unique perspectives, fresh opinions and inspiring solutions to all of the challenges we are grappling with. You truly provided a forum for voices that deserve to be heard, and I trust you will find ways to continue your mission of opening our eyes and hearts to global issues. I’ll be cheering you on from the sidelines as you branch out in new directions.
So very sad and very upset with WBEZ that Worldview is canceled. It’s one of the shows that got me started on WBEZ in the first place almost 30 years ago. I would go to lunch with my Dad and it would be playing in the car. So I would always catch some of it. Back then it was Sandra as host. I moved to New York for a while and stopped listening but when I came back I tuned in whenever I could, and totally loved Jerome McDonald . The only show on any radio or tv station that gave respect to the Palestinians. The show gave respect to everyone, and was the only counter to a huge corporate mainstream narrative, which includes NPR News btw. I would have much preferred they canceled NPR News. Very very angry at WBEZ and I vastly reduced my contributions. There needs to be a place on the WBEZ app to only tune in to Jeromes future reporting.
Dear Jerome, I was not a regular listener. In fact, I only discovered Worldview’s cancellation yesterday. But the times I could tune in were always special. Worldview was intellectually invigorating yet absolutely practical. Had I been in Illinois over the summer, I would have joined the effort to keep the show on the air. Thank you for Worldview and its legacy of a better enlightened, better connected, and better engaged Chicagoland.
THANK YOU Team Worldview! You enriched our lives. You led by example. You built a community. The global connections you made and the things you set into motion are beyond measure. Congratulations on this seismic success and thank you! We love you and will miss you. – Erin
Thank you, Worldview team. I have learned so much from your programs. You have created a model for calm discussion and examination of an immense range of global problems that are important to all of us. I hope that it will be recreated in the future.
Dear Jerome
My life is not the same without you and WorldView.
Just cannot understand what WBEZ thought they were doing to close down one of Chicago’s most important global assets. You were the chief reason for my annual donation. In gratitude. Caroline
To Jerome, Steve and Julian- I am indebted to you for bringing me the most interesting show, on far ranging, relevant topics. You exhibited respect, kindness, empathy and knowledge in everything you did. Worldview was one of a kind. I now have one less thing to look forward to. Thank you!
I thank Jerome McDonnell, Steve Bynum, Julian Hayda and everyone who has brought us Worldview over the years. Second in popularity only to Wait, Wait … Don’t Tell Me (it makes me laugh), Worldview has broadened my horizons and understanding of the larger world. It has been one of my favorite NPR programs and will be sorely missed.
The loss of Worldview is unfathomable to me. It was, in my opinion, the best program on WBEZ. I can’t begin to enumerate all the issues I have been introduced to, learned to care about because of this show. I have become a better person because of this show. And Jerome and his staff did it in a way, and with a personality and style, that can never be duplicated. The most recent memories, that will be with my always, were of Jerome’s broadcasts from Morton Arboretum and Chicago Botanical Gardens. I am not a gardener, but because of these shows I have become even more of a tree-lover, and I feel I am now an evangelist fo planting native prairie gardens. I have become so much more of an educated person because of this show.
I intend to speak with my wallet on this and cut my contributions to BEZ in half, because half the value of the station has just been cancelled. What a shame.
I am truly saddened by the termination of WorldView especially since it was my very favorite program on WBEZ- in fact on NPR. Through WorldView, i truly gained a better and often more exciting view of what is going on in countries that unfortunately, i will never get to visit nor be able to read their newspapers. Specifically, due to WorldView, i am more informed of the unjust things going on in the world but also the rays of hope created by people from all parts of the world who are fighting back and/or creating incredible examples of ways to make the world a better place. I also liked to hear about the volunteer activities and ways to donate to projects literally world wide. As someone increasingly concerned about the climate, I also appreciated the attention paid to this issue even when denial was more the norm. I to this day, don’t understand why the management of WBEZ did not understand the value of this program. Everything is not about prime time ratings- public radio should also about be about “service to the public” especially when so many concervative reporters are doing their best to destroy this hope and the ability to have an informed public. Also WBEZ should be proud of its unique contribution to the world class city it serves. What is unique and powerful is not another 2 hour talk show that is engaging but probably is covered in other outlets or not that relevant in the world today. It is very disappointing and the first time i have considered why i am a member and am considering not renewing because of your decision to not host WorldView. In fact, i have decided not to renew.
Interesting the use of the passive tense to describe what happened to “World View”: It “was dropped”. How about telling us who exactly was behind this move? At no point in his “farewell” did he deliver the usual de rigueur “heartfelt” comment: “It was just time to move on.” Looks to me as if Jerome was simply dumped because you and others at the station thought his program had become “stale”, i.e., no longer had a “young” sound to it. (Perhaps that’s why Marc Garber’s voice also is no longer heard? It appears to have been replaced by voices many of whom sound as if they are newly graduated from high school–a sound that matches what I hear as a lack of intellectual preparation for incisive and articulate reporting.)
Was Jerome in agreement with the move? What could be the rationale for replacing a unique program for audiences that will no longer have Jerome as a voice for issues and stories coming from places throughout the world and not heard elsewhere on the radio dial? A call-in local talk show is a dime a dozen, and it promises just more of the same: palaver devoid of critical analysis. You might get more listeners for the proposed replacement, but the show will certainly be chatty, commonplace, and anodyne in a way Jerome’s show never was.
Jerome and crew,
Thanks for all you did to make World View part of my day! I listened to the last program with a great deal of regret regarding WBEZ’s decision. I have been a member for many, many years, and have always wondered why so-called member’s are not consulted when program changes are introduced. It betrays the true meaning of the word.
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Jerome, Steve, Julian, We peacemakers are indebted to you. I never imagined Worldview would go off the air because, to me, it’s unique value was obvious. As others have written, Worldview made global news locally relevant. The BBC spots on the last day were insulting — BBC is no substitute to Worldview at all! Those who think it will he simply don’t “get it.” To wrap up on a happy note – your legacy is strong! You are young with much more to offer! I look forward to it. – Ed
Worldview helped me understand the world around me. I’m at a loss where to go for this information now, but grateful for the 25 years of learning.
Thank you, Jerome, and the rest of the Worldview team. Yours was an important show, always interesting and informative. I especially liked the feeling I had that we really were “viewing the world”–together, from our spot in Chicago. I managed to catch the final 15 minutes on Friday…and needed that many Kleenexes while listening to Jerome bid adieu. Jerome, you are a wonderfully kind, compassionate, and knowledgeable person, and a model for us all. Best wishes. I look forward to your continued reporting on the environment.
Thank you Worldview staff for all of the years of dedication in bringing inspiring stories to Chicago listeners. You will be missed.
Thank you for creating space for real dialogue, for deep listening, for providing alternative viewpoints, and for deeply caring about our community. More than once your interviews moved me to tears, or left me thinking long after the show ended. I’ll never forget translating live on the air for Joaquin who was visiting from Nicaragua as you interviewed him about life as a coffee farmer. I’ll never forget speaking on the show just after a woman who was trafficked and is now creating safe havens for young girls. I’ll never forget your gracious hosting of Global Fest, honoring local and international citizens who are working to make a difference. Thank you, muchas gracias, your show lives on in all of us who loved tuning in every day at noon.
Jerome,
It’s unbelievable that WBEZ has ended your wonderful program. Chicago will be the poorer for its absence. Thank you for your years of dedication and excellence.
I wasn’t a daily listener as so many of the folks who have commented on what an outstanding show WorldView was; as I read the thoughts of others I realize I have missed what was undoubtedly the finest program on the air. The cancellation of the show feels like one more thing that is wrong with today’s world. So many people in the news today seem selfish and only concerned with their themselves —no thought that we are indeed a global society, is dependent upon each other. Jerome and his crew always transcended this smallness and helped us to see our world through different eyes. I too cannot understand the thinking of the higher powers at WBEZ, and, as another listener voiced, don’t feel as obligated to support when it seems that listeners opinions have been ignored. Good luck, Jerome, Steve and Julian and Thank
You.
I have been a listener to Worldview since the Sandra Gair days. I had the honor of bringing Sandra and Jerome to speak at the College of Lake County, Grayslake, IL when Jerome was Sandra’s producer(?) or maybe he was just her assistant then.
I am still agonizing over whether I will continue my monthly support for WBEZ. WBEZ has failed by the elimination of Worldview.
Perhaps Jerome and Worldview could be picked up by WUWM. Many of us can hear that station.
This is such sad news. Gerome is an amazing person.
I was honored to be a guest: https://www.wbez.org/shows/wbez-news/global-activism-center-for-global-initiatives/33dcb3be-92ea-4123-89cc-7ee78634cbafand we particiapted in all of the Global Activism events he hosted.
He’s had an immeasurable impact in the world.
Chris
World View will be greatly missed. My favorite segment was Activism Thursday, hearing about people who are making a difference in the world. WBEZ should embarrassed for not listening to it’s supporters.
Thanks for your perspective, your information, your inspiration. Honestly, I’m tempted to halve my monthly donation to WBEZ for closing you down. Should I?
Worldview provided a accurate view of the world to me after I retired.
I have depended on it daily to fill my mind with relevant and realistic
facts. I can’t believe that the best program on WBEZ is being cancelled.
When I filled in at WBEZ I saw Jerome and crew “behind the scenes” and can assure listeners that he is every bit as kind, gracious, and funny in real life as on the air. Jerome I believe this hiatus in hosting will be short lived and that you will be back bigger and better than ever. I can’t wait for that day.
This is a tragedy that Worldview is discontinued. Jerome and all were fabulous at digging into the various international issues, as well as domestic issues about PEOPLE. How sad that WBEZ doesn’t recognize the value of this program. I listened to this program since before there was Jerome, when a woman (forgot her name!) led the way. She would pick up the phone and call leaders all over the world. Will you not continue in some modified way to have this direct communication with allies and enemies? How foolish to drop this signal of democracy, where all facets can be discussed in the open. Is WBEZ going down the tubes? Or else please announce your new version of this communication.
Dear Jerome and worldview’s team: I still can’t believe that WBEZ has chosen to terminate the best international news program on the radio, not just news, not a talk show, but thoughtful and lively interviews with people and organizations not heard anywhere else You were on the side of those trying in your words” to make the world a better place,” without being ideological about it, You brought in contradictory voices when needed and you had a good sense of humor. You were always so positive! Before getting rid or Worldview, WBEZ got rid of PRI The World 7:00 PM. This, at a time when we need more than ever to understand the world as a global place – our only planet, and yes thank you especially, Jerome, for all you have done to stress the urgency of trying to save what is left of it. I am sad and angry we will not hear you any more. I’ll have to get my international information somewhere else now. Good luck to all of you and thanks again for all these years of truly good radio.
You all were the voice of the voiceless. I applaud your work and dedication. You will be greatly missed.
I actually couldn’t listen to much of the last episode. When Steve Bynum teared up, so did I. I’ve been working on acceptance. Today I was done listening, not interested in one more re-hash of greatest hits.
Thank you all for everything, especially your Thurs. focus on women and girls around the world. I know of no other program anywhere who did that.
No matter what you covered, Jerome was brilliant, curious, and *humane*. Such a loss.
Thankyou Jerome et al… I still do not understand this decision, but I wish all of you talented people well.
Hope to hear you again
When some Iraqi refugee teens began their quest for a college education in the United States with road trip across America, you covers it. No where else would this happen.
I loved world view. I really wish the show could have gone on. It was so unique and I learned so much from it. Jerome was a wonderful host-so smart but so down to earth. Thank you all for your terrific work and dedication to Worldview.
Thank you so much Jerome and crew for making Worldview one of the best and most unique radio programs ever! You brought important stories out of the darkness and into the light to enlighten the world! I feel honored that one of the last shows featured the City of Evanston’s Climate Action and Resilience Plan as I was the co-chair of the working group that developed our ambitious plan. Thank you for your commitment to great journalism, to Chicago, and sharing empowering and uplifting stories! I will miss you and Worldview so much.
Rarely does a media program live up to its name, but Worldview did just that—giving us a nuanced, international and intersectional view of our society’s most contentious, most important and most fascinating issues. Jerome it was a sincere honor to be one your program years ago as an environmental artist and just a few weeks ago, for Extinction Rebellion. Your program is heroic to me for always covering the environmental issues others passed by…and just look where we are now. You have been proved right that climate is the story of all of our lifetimes. I for one am still holding onto the hope that Worldview will come back somehow!
What a terrific job Jerome and the crew have done over the years. It must have been extremely challenging at times, but it was such a priceless gift for the listeners. So glad you did it and kept the energy and interest going strong. Best luck to all of you. We’ll miss the show but hope to hear more from you.
Thank you for giving a voice to the voiceless around the world. You are an amazing class act.
Thank you, Worldview,
Always fascinating, always worth my time.
Dear Jerome and Worldview staff, I heard your last episode today and am sad that I will not be able to listen to Worldview in the future. I found your broadcasts enjoyable, informative and thought provoking. I wish you the best of luck and happiness in your future endeavors. Your efforts are appreciated by your listening public and will be missed.
Gene Kocian
Wilmette.
Jerome,
You’ve done a splendid job and are obviously a warm and wonderful man. Today’s show was difficult and those last ten minutes were killers. It was like saying goodbye to a very dear friend. I will look forward to your special environmental reports and always wish that you are happy, healthy and enjoying life.
And I NEVER thought you were grumpy!
All the best,
Haley Simon
Worldview has been my “middle of the day” date while eating my lunch. It has been a great way to catch up on what advocacy groups are doing and to get behind the headlines to understand what was going on in far distant parts of the globe. I have laughed and cried with you…especially today as the staff said your thanks and best wishes to Jerome. Much as I like Jen White’s style of interviewing, I can’t imagine the new show will be even close to plumbing the depths of stories behind the headlines. I hope I am wrong. I have notified friends all over the world about interviews you’ve done and given them the link to listen. Chicago has been greatly enriched by your program. Thank you.
Dear Worldview, Thank you for being an inspiration and a great source of information to me for so many years. You will be missed!!!
Jerome, I look forward to hear your friendly persuasive voice reporting on the climate! We need it too.
A heartfelt THANK YOU to the entire Worldview team. Trying to imagine what could possibly replace you and the valuable experiences provided by Worldview. Hoping you can find another way or place to continue your kind of broadcasting.
It has been good to know you. Charlotte Jones
Thank you, Jerome, for your years of serving the Chicago area for so many years. I’ve been a loyal fan, and am saddened that Worldview is going off the air. I wish you the best in the coming years, and appreciate the grace you exhibited in the programs this month.
I wish I were a better writer, but I can’t match what so many have written. I am finding great comfort in reading comments and feeling a part of this wonderful community. Hoping there might be meet-ups? I’m listening to the recording of the last show from the UK as I type, and wonder how we will do without Worldview. Such honesty, inspiration, and exposure to ideas and people and locations that I’d never even heard of or thought about. I will always treasure my friendship and working relationship with Rose Ayuma Moon, whom I met after hearing her on Worldview (driveway moment in 2006!) and last saw a few weeks ago when I was working with her in Kenya. Hyper-local (Global Activists) and absolutely international. There is no match for Jerome and Worldview, and likely won’t be again. But – the knowledge, connections, and friends I gained cannot be erased. Thanks so much, Jerome, you’ve had a huge impact on our world.
I volunteered for WBEZ fund raising when Ken Davis was in charge and when WBEz was on Pershing Road. I love WBEZ and will continue to support it but this is the most disappointing thing that I have heard them do. It is a rebuff to those of us who have supported you for 35 years and a great disappointment that you could not find the funds to continue this special and unique program. I have learned so much from it and have valued listening to this extraordinary person….Jerome McConnell. I wish him all that is good in his future…..he is special. Eileen Meyer
Thank you! Merci! תודה! Gratzie! Danke! Gracias! dziękuję! Can’t wait to see what you do next!
Thanks for your hard work over the years.
“It is for times such as these. . .” that Worldview has existed. I will miss the vision of peace and justice that you offered. I am disappointed in the “decision-makers” at WBEZ. I don’t know your motivations for your decision – but may I just say that sometimes what we need to hear may not be what most people want to hear. And it takes great courage to speak the truth to power. Thank you for 25 years.
Thank you so much for all of the stories that you have brought us over the years, for your thoughtful commentary and questions, and just simply everything you have done to help open my eyes to the world. The absence of this program will leave a large hole.
Best wishes,
Mary Jo Braun
It’s hard to put into words my gratitude for your work. The many global stories of fair trade that you aired, showing the extraordinary connections between Chicagoans and people around the globe. The fun of launching “Live From Daley Plaza” for our World Fair Trade Day celebration and the amazing energy at the Global Activists Expos when hundreds of people made global connections. Thank you for your commitment, creativity and energy.
I didn’t know that it was your last day until today’s show. 😢 My husband and I met at your expo. You could say we have a Worldview baby! Thanks for your commitment to community, at all levels. Thank you ❤️
Writing from election monitoring in Tunisia, and, while not easily shocked or horrified, I am experiencing both now that this ‘threat’ has been carried out. Not keen to tune in to WBEZ on return home. Farewell to all those who kept us properly informed every day. Wish each of you the best, and a move to where you will be deservedly appreciated.
Karen Abuzayd
Jerome and all, Your final program was poignant and reminded me again how much I will miss Worldview. I wish you the best in the future and thanks for years of informative listening.
All of broadcast journalism should strive to achieve what Worldview has done for Chicago. I wasn’t a daily listener, but the show’s impact touches me and so many others everyday because you’ve created a culture of engagement and connectivity between organizations that we all benefit from. It’s profound. Thank you.
Dear Jerome, Steve and Julian,
Thank you so much for enriching my lunch hours over the past 25 years. You are the reason I first started supporting WBEZ. Your pledge drives, quiz programs, World Cup coverage etc were often hilarious. (Btw, I’m still waiting for Jerome’s oatmeal cookie recipe.) Because of you I am so much more aware of what others must cope with every day. Your curiosity, sense of compassion and overall niceness will be sorely missed.
To Jerome, Steve, Julian and ALL who created and produced Worldview :
Chicago and the world lost one of its shining hopes to bring understanding and compassion to a much colder political and social climate on our Earth.
During the past three years, your program was a comforting voice, hope for the many without one, solace for those yearning for understanding, and inspiration for all to achieve greater humanity.
Now when we need your program most, its shoes will be very hard to fill, despite WBEZ’s assurances. That special non-formal education it offered isn’t available in classrooms and books, but is so valuable, especially at this time when most people seem to lack even nano-grasps of Chicago as well as world realities.
I hope in the future, people will not lament that not enough programs like Worldview existed to teach and guide us to be more human to one another. Whether or not money was more important than education, the guilt will be on those who brought down yet another pillar of enlightenment.
Good luck to ALL of you, and I expect to hear your voices and listen to your shows elsewhere on the radio dial, in the very near future.
Sincerely yours,
Paul Yamauchi, Ph.D.
Executive Director – Nagata-Yamauchi Educational Fund (NYEF)
Jerome, Steve, Julian — how can we all thank you for the work you did and the stories you’ve told? Worldview truly gave us a peek into different global issues that I haven’t seen covered anywhere else (especially not on the radio). Your guests were always fascinating, your interviews enlightening. Every time I listened, I came away knowing something new that I probably wouldn’t have sought out myself but made my life fuller.
I hope you know how much Worldview enriched the lives of everyone who listened.
Dear Worldview and Jerome,
I listened to the last production today. Felt my eyes water in hearing the tributes to what you stand for and who you are as human beings. There is a hole in our hearts for all you have done to educate and expose us to essential matters occurring around the world and here at home.
My thanks for your committment to making the world a better place. May all of you be able to find some avenue for continueing your exceptional work.
Peggy
I cried during today’s heartfelt program.
I commend all of you from worldview for honesty and compassion. Sometimes the topics addressed were so difficult to listen to. Somehow almost magically there would be an offering of how to help, people to contact. A way to contribute to the solution. You never let me feel that there was a way to help. I was always reassured that there were good and loving people in the world. People Not afraid to speak the truth.
Thank you for your service.
Heartbroken to see truthful people smothered .
Thank you again for service.
May your road joyful
Such a great show. Such a good run. Thanks for all you’ve done. You made us see the world we all live in together. Peace.
An invaluable show. A great loss. Whenever we Americans turn toward ignorance and isolationism, we end up regretting it. Yet we keep doing it just the same. I am extremely disappointed in my hometown radio station WBEZ. But I will always remember Worldview’s commitment to bringing the world to Chicago. Gratitude and Respect!
Worldview has been totally unique. It’s ability to bring context to the news and the
activists who tried to create a better world has been the one two punch that no one!!!
in their right mind would want to see cancelled. What were the executives thinking?
My wife and I have loved the show and Jerome’s intelligence and style.
This was a unique and valuable program which is not duplicated anywhere else. It is what public radio should be doing. Thanks to Jerome and staff who did an outstanding job
We’ll miss you.
Congratulations and thank you for the special programs you have aired. Your work will be sorely missed, especially in the increasingly insular current culture that seems content to live within its cocoon of personal or very local entertainments.
I hope you will find other ways to aid the public in understanding what goes on around the globe that deserves our attention.
Dear Worldview,
This program had everything: interesting, varied and unusually focused, instructive information delivered by experts around the world; Jerome McD.’s knowledgeable and high-spirited interviewing; music from around the world…
No matter what the powers that be may say, it’s difficult not to regard this marvelous program’s demise not just as a tremendously damaging slice out of the information available to Public Radio’s curious audience but as a real blow to WBEZ’s integrity as well .
Jerome, Steve – and Julian:
It was an emotional moment to listen to the final broadcast of Worldview today. THANK YOU for your many years of service to bring the marginalized voices of peoples around the world on to Worldview to the people of Chicago.
These voices are so vital for Americas to hear, especially since US policies and practices as the world superpower need to be understood from the point of view of those that are impacted. Sadly, these voices of leaders of grassroots social movements and impacted communities are largely ignored by the media, and get only limited attention on NPR. Worldview allowed their voices to be heard by everyday working Americans who tune in.
Thank you for your 25 years of programming integrity.
Thank you for the engaging story you aired last week of a undocumented Korean, DACA, young adult.
Thank trust you established between Worldview’s diverse guests and WBEZ listeners.
Thank you for the lasting links you have opened between the broader public and Chicago’s diverse immigrant communities from around the world.
Thanks to the Worldview Team for outstanding informative and engaging programs. I learned a lot listening and will miss the wide-ranging discussions.
I always enjoyed Worldview when I was a graduate student at the University of Chicago in the 90’s; further, I admired Jerome McDonnell’s obvious passion for and belief in the value of public radio (unlike others, he firmly refused to be apologetic during fund drives). Even though it’s been 18 years since I lived in Chicago, it still strikes me as a real shame that this excellent show has been canceled.
Jerome,
Your singular voice and wise insights have been a window on the important issues of our world. You are a true global citizen and have encouraged others to understand our interconnectedness. Thank you for your devotion to raising consciousness.
With deep gratitude,
Gretchen Grad
Founder, Hands of Peace.
Jerome and Steve, you were always a bright light in my daily drives. You produced your shows with great integrity and always expanded the mindsets of your listeners. I am grateful to have met you and only wish the best for you in the future. Thank you for your partnership with the Indian community and particularly India Development Service.
Thank you so much Jerome, Steve, Julian, and everybody connected with Worldview for the past 25 informative and enlightening years. Worldview has been a window on to issues, histories and communities that I otherwise,would never have heard of. I am going to miss this local global perspective so incredibly much. Thank you for 25 years of absolutely outstanding radio excellence.
Thank you, Mr. McDonnell. I don’t know why WBEZ stonewalled everyone who asked that your show be kept on the air. It’s bizarre. But I do know that Worldview has touched lives in a way that truly leaves a positive legacy that will endure for decades. Congratulations and thank you for a job beautifully done. Sincerely, Robert Roers
I’m going to be balling my eyes out as I listen to the last show today! Worldview has made the world a better place. I’m confident of that because my life is better because of Worldview. I’m a more responsible citizen, I’ve attended amazing events, I’ve joined new organizations, and have new friends because of Jerome McDonnell! We’ve never met but I am so indebted. I look forward to your environmental reporting but will miss Worldview terribly. Thank you for your extraordinary work.
So many driveway moments.
Thanks for opening our eyes to the wider world beyond our shores.
Saddened.
I already sent a thank you but I’m happy to do it once again .
I will miss this program so much .
When I first moved to Chicago I discovered Sondra Gair When she died I worried that the show would end but Jerome came in and continued her legacy .
The end of this show is one more nail in the loosening of my ties to this city . Our connections to places is composed of ties to things besides family and friends Things like shops and their owners and staff , restaurants , familiar landscape and yes radio shows become a part of the fabric of our lives
I will miss the in-depth ( not one of those 10 minute npr ideas of in depth ) discussions about politics ,history, the environment and cultural events
With respect,
Deborah Hellerstein
To Jerome, Steve and Julian: Thanks for the years of enlightening the public about issues around the world that affect not only the people living in the countries you’ve covered, but also the broader community. Listeners of Worldview have had their horizons expanded by many who have spoken on your program about the successes of, and challenges faced, by their native countries. Wishing all of you the best of success in your next endeavors.
After listening to Worldview for years, it was a thrill to bring the Salaam-Shalom Music Project onto the show to talk and play music from different faith communities. In person, Jeremy is just as kind, friendly and deep as he is on the air. Julian Hayda was a pleasure to work with and ran a tight ship along with the rest of the team. I hope there continues to be a local program with a world view. I’m already missing it.
Worldview has been for years the one weekday program I go out of my way to listen to. It is unlike any other show anywhere, covering issues, people and organizations not covered anywhere else. I can’t imagine what WBEZ thinks its mission is , if it’s not to provide a show like this. My world will be a less interesting place without this show.
Jerome, Steve, Julian: it’s hard to find words for what Worldview has meant to me. Specifically in my case, your long listening about Colombia has affirmed the dignity of my friends who struggle for the survival of their communities & face death threats in the process. Here in Chicago I have several good friends whom I met in the wake of interviews you did, & we have collaborated on Colombia projects, & in one case traveled together & even made a book together. Your caring & intelligence & ethical centeredness & friendship made these connections possible. Muchísimas gracias, & so much love.
Thank you Jerome, Steve, Julian, and everyone involved with Worldview! From more people on bikes to more people contacting Congress, the world truly is a better place because of your inspiring work. I hope you’re incredibly proud of everything Worldview has achieved. I am deeply grateful for it. Thank you.