- Kai Ryssdal
Kai Ryssdal is the host of "Marketplace", a business program that airs weekdays on U.S. public radio stations affiliated with American Public Media. He took over in August 2005, replacing David Brown. Before hosting "Marketplace", he was host of the "Marketplace Morning Report", a 10-minute business roundup. Before joining "Marketplace", Ryssdal was a reporter and substitute host for "The California Report", … - 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. - 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 Brooks
Mr. Brooks joined The Weekly Standard at its inception in September 1995, having worked at The Wall Street Journal for the previous nine years. His last post at the Journal was as op-ed editor. Prior to that, he was posted in Brussels, covering Russia, the Middle East, South Africa and European affairs. His first post at the Journal was as editor of the book review section, and he filled in for five months as the Journal's movie critic. - Brian Lehrer
Brian Lehrer (born October 5,1952) is a radio talk show host on New York City's public radio station WNYC. His daily two-hour program, "The Brian Lehrer Show", features interviews with newsmakers and experts about current events and social issues. Lehrer was formerly an anchor and reporter for NBC Radio Networks, and has been in broadcast journalism for more than 20 years. - Leonard Lopate
Leonard Lopate is host of the public radio talk show "The Leonard Lopate Show", broadcast on WNYC. He first broadcast on WKCR, the college radio station of Columbia University—where his brother Phillip was a student—then, later, at WBAI, before ultimately moving to WNYC. - Rick Steves
Rick Steves (born in Edmonds, Washington in 1955) is an American authority on European travel. He is the host of a public television series and a public radio travel show and the author of many travel guidebooks - Zorba Paster
Zorba Paster is a physician who hosts a weekly radio call-in show on personal health issues called "Zorba Paster on Your Health". The show is produced by Wisconsin Public Radio, sponsored by Public Radio International, and is broadcast on public radio stations around the United States. The show's trademark is a lighthearted, humorous approach, made possible by Zorba's banter with his co-host, Tom Clark. - 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. - Michael Lewis
Michael Lewis (born 1960, New Orleans, Louisiana) is an American contemporary non-fiction author. His bestselling books include "Liar's Poker", "The New New Thing," "Moneyball: The Art of Winning an Unfair Game" and "The Blind Side: Evolution of a Game". After graduating from the Isidore Newman School in New Orleans, he received an art history degree from Princeton University and a masters degree in economics from the London School of Economics. - Krista Tippett
Krista Tippett is the host of "Speaking of Faith", a weekly radio show carried on many public radio stations around the United States. Speaking of Faith is a radio show covering topics related to human faith in the broadest sense. It is the equivalent of a mix of university survey courses in comparative religions, ethics, theology and the interplay of other fields of human endeavor with issues of faith. - Steve Curwood
Journalist, author, public radio personality and actor Steve Curwood was born in Roxbury, Massachusetts on December 11, 1947, and brought up as a Quaker in Yellow Springs, Ohio where his mother Sarah Thomas Curwood was a sociology professor at Antioch College. - Jeffrey Callison
Jeffrey Callison is the host of "Insight", a live, daily, public radio interview program produced in Sacramento, California, and broadcast on KXJZ and three other stations in California and Nevada. - 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. - Henry Rollins
Henry Rollins (born February 13, 1961 as Henry Lawrence Garfield) is a singer and songwriter, spoken word artist, book author (prose and poetry), radio and TV personality, occasional movie actor, comedian, and voice-over artist. He is perhaps best known for his work with the hardcore punk band Black Flag from 1981 to 1986, and for leading the Rollins Band since 1987. - Esther Dyson
Esther Dyson is a self-described authority on emerging digital technology, and considered a founding member of the digerati. Esther Dyson is the daughter of Freeman Dyson, a physicist, and Verana Huber-Dyson, a mathematician, and the sister of the digital technology historian George Dyson. After graduating from Harvard in economics, she joined Forbes as a fact-checker and quickly rose to reporter. - Christopher O'Riley
Christopher O'Riley is an American classical pianist and public radio show host, who is also known for his piano arrangements of songs by alternative pop artists. O’Riley was born in Chicago, Illinois and grew up in Evanston, Illinois. Beginning with a background in jazz, O'Riley switched to classical piano and studied at the New England Conservatory of Music. He has received awards at the Leeds, Van Cliburn, Busoni and Montreal competitions, … - Bill Radke
Bill Radke is co-host of the public radio program "Weekend America". He is the former host of public radio program "Rewind", produced by KUOW-Seattle and distributed by NPR. He was a stand-up comedian and winner of the 1992 Seattle International Comedy Festival. He also wrote a humor column in the "Seattle Post-Intelligencer". He now lives in Los Angeles, California. - Ravi Shankar
Ravi Shankar is an American poet. He was born in 1975 and raised in Manassas, VA. He is the poet-in-residence at Central Connecticut State University and the founding editor of the online journal of the arts, "Drunken Boat". His first book, "Instrumentality", was published by Cherry Grove in May 2004, and was a finalist for the 2005 Connecticut Book Awards. He co-wrote "Wanton Textiles" (No Tell Books, 2006) with Reb Livingston, … - Glenn Hauser
Glenn Hauser (born April 12, 1945 - Berkeley, California) is an internationally-known DXer and radio host from Enid, Oklahoma, USA. He produces and narrates the weekly 30-minute radio show "World Of Radio"," heard on various non-commercial AM and FM radio stations throughout the USA, plus worldwide on shortwave radio. He began his broadcasting career doing Sunday night DX tips on Radio Canada International in the late 1970s, leading many to believe that he is, … - Tony Blankley
Anthony "Tony" Blankley (born 1948 in London, United Kingdom) is the editorial page editor for "The Washington Times", co-host of the nationally syndicated public radio program "Left, Right & Center", and author of "The West's Last Chance: Will We Win the Clash of Civilizations?" Additionally, Blankley is a regular "talking head" for various television shows, including "The McLaughlin Group" and "The Diane Rehm Show". - Sandra Tsing Loh
Sandra Tsing Loh (born 11 February 1962) is a Los Angeles, California-based author, actress and radio commentator. Loh is the daughter of a Chinese father and a German mother who was raised in Southern California, as she frequently mentions in her performances. She graduated from Caltech with a BS in Physics, and returned in 2005 to deliver its commencement speech. She is also a graduate of the Master of Professional Writing Program at the University of Southern California. - Margot Adler
Margot Adler (born 16 April 1946) is an author, journalist, lecturer, and a radio journalist and correspondent for National Public Radio (NPR). - Peter Schickele
Peter Schickele (born Johann Peter Schickele, July 17 1935) is an American composer, musical educator and parodist, best known for his comedy music albums featuring music he wrote as P. D. Q. Bach. - Madeleine Peyroux
Madeleine Peyroux (b. 1974) is an American jazz singer, songwriter, and guitarist. Peyroux (pronounced 'Peru' or 'Pear-roo') is noted for her vocal style, which is highly reminiscent of Billie Holiday. - Maria Hinojosa
Maria Hinojosa (born 1961 in Mexico City) is a television journalist. Her first journalism experience was as host of a Latino radio show as a student at Barnard College, where she graduated magna cum laude with a degree in Latin American studies. In 1995, Hinojosa began hosting the National Public Radio show "Latino USA". She hosted the WNBC-TV public affairs show "Visiones" before joining CNN in 1997, … - David Holt
David Holt is a four-time Grammy Award winner for his work as a musician. He is dedicated to performing and preserving traditional American music and stories. Holt plays ten acoustic instruments and has released numerous recordings of traditional mountain music and southern folktales. He also hosts a jazz program for public radio, Riverwalk, as well as a television program on folk music and culture on North Carolina public television, Folkways. - Andrew Kohut
Andrew Kohut is an American pollster. Kohut currently serves as the president of Pew Research Center and director of two of Pew's sub-projects: Pew Research Center for the People and the Press and Pew Global Attitudes Project. - Nancy Pearl
Nancy Pearl (born January 12 1945) is a librarian, best-selling author, book reviewer and was, until August 2004, the Executive Director of the Washington Center for the Book at Seattle Public Library. Her prolific reading and her knowledge of books and literature first made her locally famous in Seattle, Washington, where she regularly appears on public radio recommending books. She achieved broader fame with "Book Lust," her 2003 guide to good reading. - Naomi Shihab Nye
Naomi Shihab Nye was born in St. Louis, Missouri, to a Palestinian father and an American mother. She spent most of her childhood in the United States but also lived in Jerusalem for a few years. A poet, songwriter, and storywriter, she lives in San Antonio, Texas. She has twice traveled abroad-to the Middle East and to the Far East-as a participant in the Arts America program. Her poetry has been published internationally and has won several literary prizes. - Davy Rothbart
Davy Rothbart is an author, filmmaker, contributor to "This American Life", and the editor/publisher of Found magazine. - Ian Brown
Ian Brown is a Canadian journalist and author. He is currently the host of "Human Edge" and "The View From Here" on TVOntario, and has hosted programming for CBC Radio One, including "Talking Books" and "Sunday Morning". He has also worked as a business writer at "Maclean's" and the "Financial Post", a feature reporter for "The Globe and Mail", and a freelance journalist for other magazines including "Saturday Night". - Glen Phillips
Glen Phillips (born December 29, 1970) is a songwriter, lyricist, singer and guitarist. He is best known as the singer and songwriter of 1990s alternative rock group Toad the Wet Sprocket. - Matthew Miller
Matthew Miller is an American journalist, and senior fellow at the Center for American Progress, a monthly columnist for "Fortune", regular contributor to "The New York Times Magazine" and "The Atlantic Monthly", and author of "The Two Percent Solution". Miller also makes regular appearances on television news networks such as CNN and MSNBC. - Nancy Updike
Nancy Updike is an award-winning American public radio producer and writer. Her work has been featured on radio programs including This American Life, All Things Considered, and Fresh Air. Her writing has been published in The New York Times Magazine, the LA Weekly,The Boston Globe, and Salon.com. - Adrian Cronauer
Adrian Cronauer (born September 8, 1938) is a lawyer and former radio disc jockey from the United States. Cronauer was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. He began his broadcasting career at the age of 12, as a guest for a Pittsburgh-area children's amateur hour. He attended the University of Pittsburgh, where he helped found the forerunner of the university's college radio station WPTS. He also attended American University where he worked at the student radio station, WAMU, … - Ruth Laredo
Ruth Laredo (nee Meckler, November 20, 1937, Detroit, Michigan - May 25, 2005, New York, New York) was a Jewish- American classical pianist referred to as "America's First Lady of the Piano". A precocious starter, she was able to play God Bless America on her mother's piano at age two. Under the tutelage of Rudolf Serkin, she graduated from the Curtis Institute of Music in 1960. She was married for some time to violinist Jaime Laredo. - Scott Fybush
Scott Fybush (b. 1972) is an American radio industry observer, writer and consultant. He is based in Rochester, New York. Fybush is the editor of "NorthEast Radio Watch", a long-running and widely read weekly summary of news about the radio and television industries in the Northeastern United States. He also edits the industry directory website "100000Watts.com", and is a regular contributor to "Radio World" and other trade magazines. - Lawrence Weschler
Lawrence Weschler is an author of works of creative nonfiction. A graduate of Cowell College of the University of California, Santa Cruz (1974), Weschler was for over twenty years (1981 - 2002) a staff writer at "The New Yorker", where his work shuttled between political tragedies and cultural comedies. - Robert Skoglund
Robert Skoglund, is the host of "The Humble Farmer", a Maine Public Radio program of down east humor and old time jazz music. A recent Christian Science Monitor article refers to him as the 'Garrison Keillor of Maine.' After 28 years on MPBN, he has stopped his wry commentary because the political content was deemed inappropriate by the management of the radio station.
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