Robert was an early innovator on the NPR News programs in the 70's and 80s, who went on to do television on ABC's Nightline and elsewhere. Lately he's the co-host of the most innovative new show in radio, Radiolab.
Robert Krulwich's stories, on NPR, CBS and ABC, are neither wacky nor pompously serious. He explains, though, that if you try to occupy the territory between wacky and serious, there are dangers.