- 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. - 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. - 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. - 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. - 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. - 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. - 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 - 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. - David Edelstein
David Edelstein (born 1959) is the chief film critic for "New York Magazine", as well as the film critic for NPR's "Fresh Air" and "CBS Sunday Morning". Edelstein became a journalist after graduating from Harvard in 1981. He is often associated with friend, fellow film critic, and iconoclast Pauline Kael, to whom he was close. He has previously been a film critic for "Slate" (1996-2005), the "New York Post", the "Village Voice", … - Daniel Schorr
Daniel Schorr, NPR Biography Senior News Analyst - 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". - Josh Marshall
Joshua Micah Marshall (born February 15, 1969 in St. Louis, Missouri) is a journalist, blogger and writer. New York Times Magazine christened Marshall "a star" of the blogosphere as the "author of one of the most popular and most respected [blogging] sites." He is also a columnist for "The Hill", a Capitol Hill newspaper. Marshall's work has been the subject of stories by the LA Times, NPR, New York Times Magazine, and Bill Moyers Journal on PBS. - 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. - 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, … - 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 - Fred Kaplan
Fred Kaplan is a journalist and contributor to "Slate" magazine. His "War Stories" column covers international relations and US foreign policy, with a particular focus on the Bush Administration and major related geopolitical issues. - Danah Boyd
Danah Michele Boyd (born 1977), also known as danah boyd, is an American academic, researcher, and blogger best known for media appearances where she speaks about social networking sites such as Friendster and MySpace. Since 2003, she and her research have been quoted on the subject of social networking in dozens of different articles in media sources such as NPR, Wired, MSNBC, "USA Today", and "The O'Reilly Factor".. - Kenneth Turan
Kenneth Turan is an American film critic who was born in Brooklyn, New York. A reviewer for the "Los Angeles Times", he also provides regular reviews for "Morning Edition" on National Public Radio. - Andrea Seabrook
Andrea Seabrook is an American radio journalist for NPR who primarily reports on the United States Congress. Seabrook received a bachelor's degree in biology from Earlham College in 1996. While at Earlham, Seabrook got involved in college radio. She went on to study Latin American literature at the UNAM (National Autonomous University of Mexico) in Mexico City. Seabrook began reporting for NPR in 2001, after working on "Anthem", an NPR music program, … - Noah Adams
Noah Adams , a senior host of National Public Radio's (NPR) award-winning evening newsmagazine All Things Considered , brings more than three decades of radio experience to audiences across the country. Adams' career in radio began in 1962 at WIRO/Ironton, Ohio, across the river from his native Ashland, Kentucky. He was a "good music" DJ on the morning shift, and played rock 'n' roll on Sandman's Serenade from 9 p.m. to midnight. - David Pogue
David Pogue is a technology writer, journalist and commentator. He is a personal technology columnist for the "New York Times" an Emmy-winning tech correspondent for "CBS News Sunday Morning", and tech guest reporter for NPR's "Morning Edition." He has written or co-written seven books in the "...for Dummies" series (including Macintosh computers, magic, opera, and classical music); in 1999, he launched his own series of computer how-to books, … - 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, … - 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). - 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, … - Will Shortz
Will Shortz (born August 26, 1952) is a U.S. puzzle creator and editor. - Robert Krulwich
Robert Krulwich is a New York-based correspondent for ABC News, reporting primarily for "World News with Charles Gibson." He has also reported extensively for "Nightline" and "Good Morning America." - 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. - Jonathan Coulton
Jonathan Coulton is a folk rock singer-songwriter. He is now the Contributing Troubadour at Popular Science as well as the Musical Director for The Little Gray Book Lectures. Coulton is best known for his light-acoustic cover of the Sir Mix-a-Lot hit song "Baby Got Back" and an original piece entitled "Code Monkey." A video set to his song "Re: your brains" was a featured link on Good Morning Silicon Valley. - Sarah Vowell
Sarah Jane Vowell (born December 27, 1969) is an American author, journalist, humorist, and commentator. Often referred to as a "social observer", Vowell has authored several books and is a regular contributor to the radio program "This American Life" on Public Radio International. She was also the voice of Violet in the animated film "The Incredibles" and a short documentary, … - Michel Martin
Michel McQueen Martin is a journalist and correspondent for ABC News and National Public Radio. At ABC, she reports for Nightline, and was awarded an Emmy for a report that aired on "Day One". At National Public Radio, she is a contributor and substitute host, and she is developing a new NPR show, Tell Me More, set to air in April 2007. This show is being developed publicly, with dress rehearsals of the program being published on a blog called Rough Cuts. - Peter Sagal
Peter Sagal is an American playwright, screenwriter, actor, and host of the National Public Radio game show "Wait Wait... Don't Tell Me!" He is originally from Berkeley Heights, New Jersey, although he currently resides in a suburb of Chicago. He is a regular contributor to the "The New York Times Magazine"<nowiki>'</nowiki>s "True-Life Tales" column, beginning with a column entitled "He Goes Down Looking," which appeared in the August 6, 2006 issue. - Harold Meyerson
Harold Meyerson (born 1950) is an left-wing American journalist, Editor-at-Large of "The American Prospect". Meyerson is also political editor and columnist for the L.A. Weekly, the nation's largest metropolitan weekly, where he served as executive editor from 1989 through 2001. His articles on politics, labor, the economy, foreign policy, and American culture have also appeared in "The New Yorker", "The Atlantic", "The New Republic", … - Nancy Wilson
Nancy Wilson (born February 20 1937) is an American singer whose sixty-plus albums have blended jazz and pop music. She currently hosts "Jazz Profiles", a jazz radio program on NPR. - Marjorie Cohn
Marjorie Cohn is Professor of Law at the Thomas Jefferson School of Law, Sand Diego, California and president of the National Lawyers Guild. She is mostly known for her columns commenting on legal issues involving the Bush administration. Her weekly columns appear in AlterNet, Counterpunch, CommonDreams, After Downing Street, ZNet, and GlobalResearch. Beyond that she is a commentator for the BBC, CNN, MSNBC, Fox News, NPR and Pacifica Radio. - Dick Gordon
Dick Gordon is a radio broadcaster most well-known for being the host of the NPR radio show "The Connection" until its termination in August 2005. Prior to joining "The Connection" in 2001 he worked on CBC Radio One's morning show, "This Morning". He has also served as Parliamentary reporter, Moscow correspondent and South Asia correspondent for both radio and television. Gordon has covered conflicts in many part of the world, including Bosnia, … - 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. - Luke Burbank
Luke Burbank is a National Public Radio national desk reporter and former freelance reporter for "All Things Considered", "This American Life", and "Morning Edition". He substituted for Peter Sagal on "Wait Wait... Don't Tell Me!", for some weeks while Sagal finished his book. During this period, the audience often booed at him, but took this instead as them saying his name slowly. - Joe Palca
Joe Palca is an American correspondent for National Public Radio. He specializes in science, and is the backup host for Talk of the Nation Science Friday. Palca was also the president of the National Association of Science Writers from 1999 to 2000. - Stefan Fatsis
Stefan Fatsis (1963-) is a staff reporter for The Wall Street Journal and a regular guest on NPRs All Things Considered. Fatsis graduated from the University of Pennsylvania in 1985 with a degree in American Civilization and is the author of "Wild and Outside: How a Renegade Minor League Revived the Spirit of Baseball in America's Heartland" and "Word Freak: Heartbreak, Triumph, Genius, and Obsession in the World of Competitive Scrabble Players", … - John Feinstein
John Feinstein is an American sportswriter and commentator. He is a columnist for the "Washington Post", an author, is a guest commentator on NPR, and does color commentary for United States Naval Academy (aka "Navy") football games. He is also a frequent contributor to "The Tony Kornheiser Show" and "The Jim Rome Show". Feinstein was a sports writer for the "The Chronicle" while enrolled at Duke University, where he graduated in 1977.
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