- Diane Rehm
Diane Rehm is a native Washingtonian who began her radio career in 1973 as an assistant producer for talk shows at WAMU. She became host and producer of two health-oriented programs, and in 1979 was selected to host WAMU's local morning talk show, Kaleidoscope , which was renamed The Diane Rehm Show in 1984. Since 1995, National Public Radio has distributed the program to stations across the nation. - Marian McPartland
Marian McPartland (b. March 20, 1918), born Margaret Marian Turner, is a jazz pianist, violinist and host of Mary McPartland's Piano Jazz on National Public Radio born in Slough, England. High-profile jazz critic Scott Yanow has said that McPartland is "...a harmonically sophisticated improviser, open to the influence of later stylists including Bill Evans." - Bob Edwards
Robert Alan Edwards (born May 16, 1947 in Louisville, Kentucky) is an award-winning American public radio broadcaster. He was the first broadcaster with a large national following to join the field of satellite radio. Edwards is the host of "The Bob Edwards Show" on XM Satellite Radio and "Bob Edwards Weekend" distributed by Public Radio International to nearly a hundred public radio stations. - Terry Gross
Terry Gross (born 1951) is the host and co-executive producer of "Fresh Air", an interview format radio show produced by WHYY-FM in Philadelphia and distributed throughout the United States by National Public Radio. Gross has won praise over the years for her low-key and friendly yet often probing interview style and for the diversity of her guests. - Tony Snow
Robert Anthony "Tony" Snow (born June 1, 1955) is the current White House Press Secretary for President George W. Bush. He succeeded Scott McClellan, becoming the third individual to serve in that position under Bush. Snow also worked for President George H. W. Bush as chief speechwriter and Deputy Assistant of Media Affairs. Between his two White House stints, Snow was a broadcaster and newspaper columnist. - Juan Williams
Juan Williams, National Public Radio's Senior Correspondent, is an Emmy Award–winning writer, and radio and television correspondent, who has written for "The Washington Post" and has appeared on National Public Radio, Fox News, and PBS. He was born in April 1954 in Colón, Panama, which is near the Panama Canal Zone (United States territory at the time). His father was a boxing trainer. Williams was raised in the Episcopal branch of the Anglican church, … - Scott Simon
Scott Simon is an American journalist, and the host of National Public Radio's "Weekend Edition Saturday". - Robert Siegel
Robert Siegel is an American radio journalist, best known today as host of the National Public Radio evening news broadcast "All Things Considered". After graduating from Stuyvesant High School in New York City, Siegel studied at Columbia University. During this time he was an anchor for the reporting of the 1968 Columbia demonstrations at the college radio station, WKCR-FM. From 1971 to 1976, he worked for WRVR in New York. - Steve Inskeep
Steve Inskeep is host of Morning Edition , the most widely heard radio news program in the United States. He co-hosts the program with Renee Montagne . Traveling from Baghdad to the wreckage of New Orleans, Inskeep has interviewed the survivors of disasters both natural and man-made. He has questioned Presidential candidates, warlords, authors, and musicians. - Ira Glass
Ira Glass started working in public radio in 1978 when he was 19, as an intern at National Public Radio's Washington Headquarters. Over the course of the next 17 years, he worked on nearly every NPR news show, and did nearly every production job they had: he was a tape cutter, desk assistant, newscast writer, editor, producer, reporter and substitute host. He moved to Chicago in 1989. - David Sedaris
David Sedaris (born December 26, 1956) is an American humorist and radio contributor. Much of his humor is autobiographical and self-deprecating, and it often concerns his family life, Greek heritage, various jobs, education, drug use, homosexuality and his life as an expatriate in France with his partner, Hugh. - Daniel Schorr
Daniel Schorr, NPR Biography Senior News Analyst - Nina Totenberg
Nina Totenberg (born January 14, 1944) is National Public Radio's legal affairs correspondent. Her reports air regularly on NPR's newsmagazines "All Things Considered, Morning Edition", and "Weekend Edition". She is also a panelist on the syndicated TV political commentary show "Inside Washington." - Cokie Roberts
Cokie Roberts (born December 27, 1943) is an American journalist and author. She is the "Contributing Senior News Analyst" for "National Public Radio". - Melissa Block
Melissa Block is a host of NPRs "All Things Considered". She graduated from Harvard University in 1983 with a degree in French history and literature and in 1984 was a Fulbright scholar at the University of Geneva. She is married to "Wall Street Journal" reporter and NPR sports contributor Stefan Fatsis. They have a daughter and live in Washington, DC. She started with "All Things Considered" in 1985 as an editorial assistant. - David Corn
Washington--a city of denials, spin, and political calculations. They may speak English there, but most citizens still need an interpreter to understand its ways and meanings. DAVID CORN , the Washington editor of The Nation magazine, has spent years analyzing the policies and pursuing the lies that spew out of the nation's capital. He is a novelist, biographer, and television and radio commentator who is able to both decipher and scrutinize Washington. - Ira Flatow
Veteran National Public Radio (NPR) science correspondent and award-winning TV journalist Ira Flatow is host of Talk Of The Nation: Science Friday. Ira Flatow anchors the show each Friday, bringing radio and Internet listeners worldwide a lively, informative discussion on science, technology, health, space and the environment. Ira Flatow is also founder and president of a non-profit company dedicated to creating radio, TV and Internet projects that make science "user friendly." - Chris Hedges
Chris Hedges is a senior fellow at The Nation Institute and a Lecturer in the Council of the Humanities and the Anschutz Distinguished Fellow at Princeton University. Chris spent nearly two decades as a foreign correspondent in Central America, the Middle East, Africa and the Balkans. He is the author of the best selling "War Is a Force That Gives Us Meaning," which was a finalist for The National Book Critics Circle Award for Nonfiction. - Ted Koppel
Edward James "Ted" Koppel (born February 8, 1940) is an American journalist, best known as the former anchorman for ABC's "Nightline". - Michele Norris
Michele Norris (born September 7, 1961) is an American radio journalist and current host of the National Public Radio evening news broadcast "All Things Considered". Before coming to NPR, Norris was a correspondent for ABC News, a post she held from 1993 - 2002, and also wrote for the Washington Post, Chicago Tribune, and Los Angeles Times. A Minnesota native, Norris originally attended the University of Wisconsin, where she studied electrical engineering, … - Mara Liasson
Mara Liasson (born June 13, 1955 in New York City) is a national political correspondent for National Public Radio, and a regular panelist on "Special Report with Brit Hume" and "Fox News Sunday" on Fox News Channel. She is a graduate of Brown University with a B.A. in American history. During her tenure she has covered four presidential elections -- in 1992, 1996, 2000, and 2004. - Ray Magliozzi
Raymond F. Magliozzi (born ca. 1948) younger brother to Tom Magliozzi, is a co-host of NPR's weekly radio show, "Car Talk". He graduated from Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1972. A Cambridge, Massachusetts native, Ray also spent a few years teaching science in Bennington, Vermont. He moved back to Cambridge and opened a do-it-yourself repair shop, named Hacker's Haven, with his brother. He and his wife, Monique, have two sons, … - Alex Jones
Alex S. Jones is a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist who has been director of the Joan Shorenstein Center on the Press, Politics and Public Policy at Harvard's John F. Kennedy School of Government since July 1, 2000. Jones is also a lecturer at the school, occupying the Laurence M. Lombard Chair in the Press and Public Policy. Jones wrote about the press for "The New York Times" from 1983 until 1992 and was awarded the Pulitzer Prize in 1987. - Kevin Klose
Kevin Klose is President and Chief Executive Officer for National Public Radio, America's premier non-profit news and cultural radio programming service, with more than 730 stations and a weekly audience of nearly 22 million listeners nationwide. A former editor, and national and foreign correspondent with The Washington Post, Klose is an award-winning author and international broadcasting executive. - E. J. Dionne
Dionne began his twice-weekly op-ed column for The Washington Post in 1993. In 1996, it was syndicated by The Washington Post Writers Group, and he now appears in more than 90 newspapers in the United States and abroad. Dionne joined The Post in 1990 as a reporter covering national politics. His best-selling book, Why Americans Hate Politics (Simon & Schuster), was published in 1991. - Neal Conan
Neal Conan (born 1949 in Beirut, Lebanon) is an American radio journalist. He has worked for National Public Radio as producer, editor, and correspondent. During the 1991 Gulf War he was captured by the Iraqi Republican Guard. Conan has hosted NPR's "Talk of the Nation" talk show since 2001. He is married to fellow NPR host Liane Hansen. A longtime friend of comic book writer Chris Claremont, he has been depicted in various titles scripted by him, … - Ken Rudin
Ken Rudin is NPR's political editor, and is involved with any political news on a variety of NPR programs. Rudin also cohosts a segment called The Political Junkie on the NPR program Talk of the Nation and writes a column of the same name for npr.org - Jay Allison
Jay Allison is an American independent public radio producer and broadcast journalist. His work has been featured on radio programs such as "This American Life", "All Things Considered", and "Morning Edition". Allison is the Executive Director of Atlantic Public Media and is the curator and co-producer of "This I Believe". Before coming to broadcasting, Allison was a theatre director in Washington, D.C. and New York City in the early 1970s. - Brooke Gladstone
Brooke Gladstone is the editor and co-host of National Public Radio's weekend show, "On the Media". A co-winner of two Peabody awards for broadcast excellence, she is a frequent contributor to magazines and newspapers, including The Washington Post and Slate. Gladstone lectures at universities and conferences and has served as substitute host on PBS's "Charlie Rose Show". Widely quoted as an expert on press trends, … - Bob Garfield
He is now writing his third book, Listenomics, on his Adage.com blog in full public view. His first book, Waking Up Screaming from the American Dream, was published by Scribner in 1997, favorably reviewed and quickly forgotten. His 2003 manifesto on advertising, And Now a Few Words From Me, is published in six languages (although, admittedly, one is Bulgarian). - Liane Hansen
Liane Hansen has hosted National Public Radio's (NPR's) "Weekend Edition Sunday" since November 1989. Her experience in broadcast journalism includes working as a reporter, producer, and host for local and national programs. Hansen's first participation in NPR programming was in 1976 when she was a production assistant and substitute host for "Fresh Air". In 1979 she formally joined NPR as a production assistant for "All Things Considered". - Frank Deford
Author and commentator, Frank Deford is among the most versatile of American writers. His work has appeared in virtually every medium. Mr. Deford is the author of fifteen books, his newest, The Entitled , a novel about celebrity, sex and baseball, was published in the spring of 2007 to rave reviews. - Farai Chideya
Farai Chideya, a political journalist and radio host, has contributed articles for national publications and commentary for television news. She has worked for numerous organizations such as Newsweek and MTV, she is currently the host of News and Notes on National Public Radio. - Alex Chadwick
For more than 30 years, Alex Chadwick has been bringing the world to NPR listeners as an NPR News producer, program host and currently senior correspondent. He's reported from every continent except Antarctica. From its launch in 2003 to Fall 2008, Chadwick was co-host of NPR's Day to Day , a weekday, one-hour newsmagazine produced by NPR in collaboration with Slate Magazine. - Susan Stamberg
Susan Stamberg has been a journalist and host with NPR for more than 30 years. In 1972, as the co-host of the fledgling new program All Things Considered , she made broadcast history by becoming the first woman in the country to anchor a national news program. Stamberg, who was been inducted into the Broadcast Hall of Fame in 1996, is currently a Special Correspondent for NPR. - Andrei Codrescu
Poet, essayist and novelist Andrei Codrescu has been contributing commentaries to NPR's award-winning newsmagazine All Things Considered since 1983. During this time, he's also reported from Romania, Cuba and New Orleans. In 1989, Codrescu returned to his birthplace of Romania after an absence of more than 20 years, a homecoming he documented for NPR through a series of six commentaries. - Linda Wertheimer
Linda Wertheimer is a radio journalist for National Public Radio (NPR). Wertheimer was born on March 19 1943 in Carlsbad, New Mexico. She graduated from Wellesley College with the class of 1965. She worked for the BBC and WCBS after graduating. Wertheimer was reportedy told she should be a researcher, rather than an on-air reporter, by an executive at NBC. NPR, however, had no such reservations. Wertheimer began her career with NPR from the beginning in 1971, … - Bob Mondello
Bob Mondello is an American film critic. He has worked for National Public Radio since 1984 — where he is the arts critic / film and theater commentator for "All Things Considered". He has also been theater critic for "Washington City Paper" since 1987. Each year, Mondello sees well in excess of 200 films and 100 plays, commenting on them on radio and television, in print, … - Ray Suarez
Rafael Suarez, Jr. (born March 5, 1957), better known as Ray Suarez, is a senior correspondent for "The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer", an evening news program on the PBS television network. He came to the program from National Public Radio, where he had hosted "Talk of the Nation" since 1993. Suarez joined "The NewsHour" in 1999. He is also a host of "America Abroad" radio programs. - Madeleine Brand
Madeleine Brand is the co-host of NPR's Day To Day. Brand was born in LA, and has a bachelor's in English from the University of California, Berkeley.
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