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A Martínez is one of the hosts of Morning Edition and Up First. He came to NPR in 2021 and is based out of NPR West.
Prior to NPR, Martínez was the host of Take Two at KPCC in Los Angeles since 2012. During his tenure, Take Two created important forums on the air and through live events that elevated the voices and perspectives of Angelenos, and provided nuanced coverage of the region's challenges including homelessness, climate change and systemic disparities in health and education. He is also a familiar voice to sports-talk radio listeners in Los Angeles as a former host of 710 KSPN's In the Zone, and he was a longtime pre- and post-game show host for the Los Angeles Dodgers and Lakers.
Before he joined KPCC, Martínez had never listened to public radio. He views his path in public radio as proof that public radio journalism can be accessible, relatable and understandable to anyone, regardless of their background or educational pedigree, and says it has changed both his career and his perspective on life.
With a career that has lately been focused on Southern California, Martínez is excited to get to know the rest of the U.S. through Morning Edition.
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- Armenian American Communities Praise Biden 's Genocide Declaration
- Energy Companies Step in to Fund STEM Education
- Science Standards Draw Climate Change Debate Back into Wyo. Classrooms
- Wyoming School District Stalls on Transgender Student Policy
- Wyoming Schools Get Poor Report Card for Native American Absenteeism
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- Correspondent
- Lawmakers Turn to Look at the Economics, Equity and Fairness of Silicon Valley
- Microsoft President: Democracy Is at Stake. Regulate Big Tech
- NPR News / Trolled Online, Women in Politics Fight to Hold Big Tech Accountable in the U.K
- One Woman 's Facebook Success Story: a Support Group for 1.7 Million
- Some Users Wary of Facebook 's Newest Venture in Online Dating
- Sweeping Internet Privacy Protection Regulations to Take Effect
- User Data Scandal Persists, Facebook Reports Record Earnings
Aarti Shahani is a correspondent for NPR. Based in Silicon Valley, she covers the biggest companies on earth. She is also an author. Her first book, Here We Are: American Dreams, American Nightmares (out Oct. 1, 2019), is about the extreme ups and downs her family encountered as immigrants in the U.S. Before journalism, Shahani was a community organizer in her native New York City, helping prisoners and families facing deportation. Even if it looks like she keeps changing careers, she's always doing the same thing: telling stories that matter.
Shahani has received awards from the Society of Professional Journalists, a regional Edward R. Murrow Award and an Investigative Reporters & Editors Award. Her activism was honored by the Union Square Awards and Legal Aid Society. She received a master's in public policy from Harvard's Kennedy School of Government, with generous support from the University and the Paul & Daisy Soros fellowship. She has a bachelor's degree from the University of Chicago. She is an alumna of A Better Chance, Inc.
Abbie Fentress Swanson left KBIA at the end of 2013.
Abbie Fentress Swanson joined Harvest Public Media in 2012 and is based at KBIA Radio in Columbia, Missouri. Before that, she covered arts and culture for WNYC Radio in New York. There she was part of a team that won an Online News Association award in 2012 and an Associated Press award in 2010 for outstanding digital news coverage. In 2011, she won the Garden State Journalists Association "Best Radio Feature" award for "Music Therapy Helps Vets Control Symptoms of PTSD." Reporting fellowships prior to WNYC took her to Egypt, Jordan, Qatar, India, Germany, the Czech Republic and Belgium. Abbie's travels led to multimedia stories on a wide range of subjects -- from the World Cup in South Africa, to the gay rights movement in India, to San Francisco's immigration court. She's filed stories for The New York Times, The Patriot Ledger, KALW Public Radio, The World, and Virginia Quarterly Review. Abbie holds a master's degree in journalism from the University of California, Berkeley and a bachelor's degree in Italian studies from the College of William & Mary. Check her out on twitter @dearabbie.
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- Health News Florida Reporter
Health News Florida reporter Abe Aboraya works for WMFE in Orlando. He started writing for newspapers in high school. After graduating from the University of Central Florida in 2007, he spent a year traveling and working as a freelance reporter for the Seattle Times and the Seattle Weekly, and working for local news websites in the San Francisco Bay area. Most recently Abe worked as a reporter for the Orlando Business Journal. He comes from a family of health care workers.
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- at Michigan State, Students Protect Their Mascot from Mischievous Rivals
- Michigan Officials Wrestle With How to Ethically Distribute COVID - 19 Vaccines
- NPR News / With More Women in State Office, Family Leave Policies Have Not Caught Up
Abigail Censky is the Politics & Government reporter at WKAR. She started in December 2018.
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- Reporter
- All Things Considered Host / Reporter
- News Anchor and Reporter
Alexandria Brown is a news anchor and reporter for KUAR News. She was previously a Douthit scholar who interned for KUAR News. Alexandria will graduate from the University of Arkansas at Little Rock in 2022 in hopes of being a multimedia reporter.
Alexandria has written for UA Little Rock's website and the student newspaper, The Forum. She is interested in reporting on events and issues surrounding culture, Arkansas news, education, and the human experience. In her spare time, Alexandria enjoys being around family and friends, running, and writing.
Allison Aubrey is a correspondent for NPR News, where her stories can be heard on Morning Edition and All Things Considered. She's also a contributor to the PBS NewsHour and is one of the hosts of NPR's Life Kit.
Along with her NPR science desk colleagues, Aubrey is the winner of a 2019 Gracie Award. She is the recipient of a 2018 James Beard broadcast award for her coverage of 'Food As Medicine.' Aubrey is also a 2016 winner of a James Beard Award in the category of "Best TV Segment" for a PBS/NPR collaboration. The series of stories included an investigation of the link between pesticides and the decline of bees and other pollinators, and a two-part series on food waste. In 2013, Aubrey won a Gracie Award with her colleagues on The Salt, NPR's food vertical. They also won a 2012 James Beard Award for best food blog. In 2009, Aubrey was awarded the American Society for Nutrition's Media Award for her reporting on food and nutrition. She was honored with the 2006 National Press Club Award for Consumer Journalism in radio and earned a 2005 Medical Evidence Fellowship by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and the Knight Foundation. In 2009-2010, she was a Kaiser Media Fellow.
Joining NPR in 2003 as a general assignment reporter, Aubrey spent five years covering environmental policy, as well as contributing to coverage of Washington, D.C., for NPR's National Desk. She also hosted NPR's Tiny Desk Kitchen video series.
Before coming to NPR, Aubrey was a reporter for the PBS NewsHour and a producer for C-SPAN's Presidential election coverage.
Aubrey received her Bachelor of Arts degree from Denison University in Granville, Ohio, and a Master of Arts degree from Georgetown University in Washington, D.C.
Amy Cooper had been facing a charge of falsely reporting an incident to police, after she told them Christian Cooper, who is not related to her, threatened her in a New York City park. He did not.
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- Reporter for NPR 's Arts Desk
A small studio has become the first video game company to unionize in North America Andrew Limbong , The video game industry has a reputation for long hours and toxic environments. But now, a small studio is hoping to chart a different path as the first unionized video game company in North America. Listen • 3:46
Andrew Limbong is a reporter for NPR's Arts Desk, where he does pieces on anything remotely related to arts or culture, from streamers looking for mental health on Twitch to Britney Spears' fight over her conservatorship. He's also covered the near collapse of the live music industry during the coronavirus pandemic. He's the host of NPR's Book of the Day podcast and a frequent host on Life Kit.
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- Even With Cardboard Beds and Recycled Medals, Olympics Take Flak over the Environment
- North Korea Threatens of 'Security Crisis' over U.S. - South Korea Military Drills
- NPR News / That 's 'Comrade' to You! North Korea Fights to Purge Outside Influences on Language
- NPR News / the Riddle of Japan 's Dramatic Drop in COVID Numbers
- Officials Tighten Restrictions in Seoul Amid Another Wave of COVID - 19 Infections
Anthony Kuhn is NPR's correspondent based in Seoul, South Korea, reporting on the Korean Peninsula, Japan, and the great diversity of Asia's countries and cultures. Before moving to Seoul in 2018, he traveled to the region to cover major stories including the North Korean nuclear crisis and the Fukushima earthquake and nuclear disaster.
Kuhn previously served two five-year stints in Beijing, China, for NPR, during which he covered major stories such as the Beijing Olympics, geopolitical jousting in the South China Sea, and the lives of Tibetans, Uighurs, and other minorities in China's borderlands.
He took a particular interest in China's rich traditional culture and its impact on the current day. He has recorded the sonic calling cards of itinerant merchants in Beijing's back alleys, and the descendants of court musicians of the Tang Dynasty. He has profiled petitioners and rights lawyers struggling for justice, and educational reformers striving to change the way Chinese think.
From 2010-2013, Kuhn was NPR's Southeast Asia correspondent, based in Jakarta, Indonesia. Among other stories, he explored Borneo and Sumatra, and witnessed the fight to preserve the biodiversity of the world's oldest forests. He also followed Myanmar's democracy icon Aung San Suu Kyi, as she rose from political prisoner to head of state.
Kuhn served as NPR's correspondent in London from 2004-2005, covering stories including the London subway bombings and the marriage of the Prince of Wales to the Duchess of Cornwall.
Besides his major postings, Kuhn's journalistic horizons have been expanded by various short-term assignments. These produced stories including wartime black humor in Iraq, musical diplomacy by the New York Philharmonic in Pyongyang, North Korea, a kerfuffle over the plumbing in Jerusalem's Church of the Holy Sepulchre, Pakistani artists' struggle with religious extremism in Lahore, and the Syrian civil war's spillover into neighboring Lebanon.
Prior to joining NPR, Kuhn wrote for the Far Eastern Economic Review and freelanced for various news outlets, including the Los Angeles Times and Newsweek. He majored in French literature as an undergraduate at Washington University in St. Louis, and later did graduate work at the Johns Hopkins University-Nanjing University Center for Chinese and American studies in Nanjing.
Efforts are being made to fix South Korea's gender inequality at its cultural roots Anthony Kuhn , South Korea lags behind other developed economies in gender equality. Some Koreans blame their country's Confucian traditions. Others are trying to reinterpret and reinvent those traditions. Listen • 4:37
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- Are You Watching Your State Lawmaker Elections? Here 's Why You Should
- Beleaguered Florida Citrus Industry Hits New Snags
- Drive - through Voting? Texas Gets Creative in Its Scramble for Polling Places
- Local Officials Call Federal Election Funds 'a 10 - Cent Solution to a $25 Problem
- Many Electronic Voting Machines Are Not Secure. One County Is Trying to Fix That
- NPR News / across the South, COVID - 19 Vaccine Sites Missing from Black and Hispanic Neighborhoods
- Texas Governor Limits Ballot Drop - off Locations, Local Officials Vow to Fight Back
- Texas Officials Begin Walking Back Allegations about Noncitizen Voters
- Texas Republicans Look to Curb Local Efforts to Expand Voting Access
Previously, Lopez was a reporter for Miami's NPR member station, WLRN-MiamiHerald News. Before that, she was a reporter at The Florida Independent. She also interned for Talking Points Memo in New York City andWUNCin Durham, North Carolina. She also freelances as a reporter/blogger for the Florida Center for Investigative Reporting.
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- Member of the Board
- Chairman, Events Committee )
Bente Birkeland has covered Colorado politics and government since spring of 2006. She loves the variety and challenge of the state capitol beat and talking to people from all walks of life. Bente's work has aired on NPR's Morning Edition and All Things Considered, American PublicMedia'sMarketplace, and she was a contributor for WNYC's The Next Big Thing. She has won numerous local and national awards, including best beat reporting from the Association of Capitol Reporters and Editors. Bente grew up in Minnesota and England, and loves skiing, hiking, and is an aspiring cello player. She lives in Lakewood with her husband.
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- Administrative Specialist for UA Little Rock Public Radio
- Administrative Specialist III
Beth Wells is the Administrative Specialist for UA Little Rock Public Radio. She serves as the secretary and receptionist.
Beth has a B.A. in Business Administration from Samford University in Birmingham, AL. After graduating, she lived in Scotland for 11 years, working as an administrator for a non-profit. When she returned to the U.S. in 2011, she focused on caring for her 3 wonderful children, volunteering at a local school and working part-time in their after-care program.
Beth started at KUAR in November 2017 and is thrilled to be working for an organization that serves the community she believes in.
The incandescent, influential funk musician Betty Davis died on Wednesday. She made a string of albums in the mid-1970s that helped to shape stylish, Afrofuturist strains of funk and hip-hop. Listen • 3:35
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- Editor With NPR 's Washington Desk
- Milwaukee Claims 7 Coronavirus Cases Tied to Controversial Wisconsin Election
- Reaction to Trump 's State of the Union Address Follows a Predictable Script
- Stung by Criticism, Trump Administration Emphasizes Election Security Response
- Trump Repeats Unfounded Claims about Mail - in Voting, Threatens Funding to 2 States
- Voters Rejected Gerrymandering in 2018, but Some Lawmakers Try to Hold Power
- Wisconsin Primary to Go on but Absentee Voting Extended, Federal Judge Rules
Brett Neely is an editor with NPR's Washington Desk, where he works closely with NPR Member station reporters on political coverage and edits stories about election security and voting rights.
Before coming to NPR in 2015, Neely was a reporter for Minnesota Public Radio based in Washington, where he covered Congress and the federal government for one of public radio's largest newsrooms. Between 2007 and 2009, he was based in Berlin, where he worked as a freelance reporter for multiple outlets. He got his start in journalism as a producer for the public radio show Marketplace.
Neely graduated from Occidental College in Los Angeles. He also has a master's degree in international relations from the University of Chicago. He is a fluent German speaker.
NPR News' Brian Naylor is a correspondent on the Washington Desk. In this role, he covers politics and federal agencies.
With more than 30 years of experience at NPR, Naylor has served as National Desk correspondent, White House correspondent, congressional correspondent, foreign correspondent, and newscaster during All Things Considered. He has filled in as host on many NPR programs, including Morning Edition, Weekend Edition, and Talk of the Nation.
During his NPR career, Naylor has covered many major world events, including political conventions, the Olympics, the White House, Congress, and the mid-Atlantic region. Naylor reported from Tokyo in the aftermath of the 2011 earthquake and tsunami, from New Orleans following the BP oil spill, and from West Virginia after the deadly explosion at the Upper Big Branch coal mine.
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- Capitol Police Officer Slain by Mob, Lies in Honor in Rotunda
- Lawmakers Honor Slain Capitol Police Officer
The cremated remains arrived with ceremony in a motorcade with members of Sicknick's family and were carried by colleagues into the Capitol. His urn rests on a pedestal next to a U.S. flag.
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- Can Choose Her Own Lawyer in Conservatorship Case, a Judge Has Ruled
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- Little Rock Board of Directors Member
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- Member of the Board
- Co - Chair, Sustainers and Supporters Committee )
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- Morning Edition Host / Reporter
Secretary of State David Whitley was behind an effort to remove alleged noncitizens from the state's voter rolls. He resigned Monday as the Texas Legislature's session came to a close.
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- What Is the Filibuster - and Why Do Some Democrats Want to End It
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- Host, Not Necessarily Nashville
Mayor Frank Scott Jr. on Wednesday announced several steps being taken to try and curb violent crime in the city.
Mayor Frank Scott Jr. delivered his third annual State of the City address Thursday where he announced his plans to improve the quality of life for…
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- Be Japan 's Next Prime Minister
The new leader of Japan's Liberal Democratic Party will be the country's next prime minister. The current prime minister is stepping down after serving only one year since taking office in September.
Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer says two militia groups "were preparing to kidnap and possibly kill me." Thirteen people are charged after the FBI thwarted the alleged plot.
Tate was a longtime staff writer at The Village Voice, where he documented Black art and culture. He eventually became a leading figure in cultural criticism.
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- Member of the Board
- Co - Chair, Sustainers and Supporters Committee )
President-elect Joe Biden called on Americans to unite this holiday season amid the pandemic. Minutes earlier, President Trump repeated baseless claims about the election being "rigged."
Joe Valiente, director of emergency management in Jefferson Parish, La., says the damage caused by the hurricane is "incredible," with extensive impact on the electrical grids in the area.
Conway, who was Trump's campaign manager, advocated for Republican Roy Moore in Alabama's recent Senate election during live television interviews broadcast from the White House lawn.
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- Member of the Board
- Honorable ( Executive Committee, at - Large Member )
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- Member of the Board
- Executive Committee, at - Large Member )
CEO Mark Zuckerberg is pledging users more enhanced privacy and other features when it comes to private messages. Skeptics say Facebook is solidifying power, in the guise of user service.
Lindell, a close ally of former President Donald Trump, had been using his Twitter account to spread disinformation about the 2020 presidential election, including false claims of voter fraud.
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- FACT CHECK: Can Trump Legally Keep Former Staff Quiet? Probably Not
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- Member of the Board
- Chairman, Board Recruitment and Governance Committee )
Robert Stewart was among the first Black officers hired by the LAPD. He spent 11 years on the force before he was unjustly terminated, according to the Los Angeles Police Commission.
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- Wisconsin to Delay Election As Governor Calls Up National Guard
Despite the coronavirus outbreak and a dire shortage of poll workers, Wisconsin is still going forward with a statewide election on April 7.
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- Announces Run for Arkansas Governor
"With the radical left now in control of Washington, your governor is your last line of defense," Sanders said in an announcement video. She was White House press secretary for President Donald Trump.
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- Facebook Announces Plans to Launch Cryptocurrency Called Libra
Taro Kono is seen as a political maverick with liberal views on social policy. He is popular with the public, but his own party's power brokers may hesitate to make him the leader next week.
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- Workers Unionize? Microsoft 's Deal Complicates Things
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- Japanese Prime Minister
- Prime Minister
Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga's exit raises the specter of a return to a "revolving door" succession of Japanese leaders.
Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga announced he will not run for reelection - effectively ending his tenure this month. He told reporters he wanted to focus his efforts on handling the pandemic.