Ian Stewart
Ian (pronounced "yahn") Stewart is a producer and editor for Weekend Edition and Up First.
He's followed presidential candidates around his home state (Iowa), reported on emergency food banks in D.C., 'silent canvassing' in Milwaukee, the impact of climate change on Miami's most vulnerable and his pandemic road trip, and he once managed to get dragon sound effects on the air. He created the show's 'signature song' and music starter kit series. He line produces the show, has directed special coverage of election nights and congressional hearings, and was NPR's coordinating producer in Ukraine during the invasion in February and March 2022.
He came to NPR in 2014 after interning at All Things Considered and studying architecture and politics at Middlebury College.
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The new governor said the arrests and trials, and in two cases the killings, of the Groveland Four were unjust. Families of the men had worked for the pardons. The accuser maintained she did not lie.
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As winter closed in on the town of Roddickton-Bide Arm in Newfoundland, a pod of seals became separated from open water by miles of ice.
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The woman told police she was groped and verbally harassed in a December incident.
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Hacienda HealthCare is facing investigations after a 29-year-old woman said to be in a vegetative state gave birth. On Tuesday, police served the facility with a search warrant for DNA evidence.
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A top Russian official has dismissed suggestions that Paul Whelan would be traded for any Russian in U.S. custody.
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The crash near Gainesville involving two semitrucks and several passenger vehicles. The children, who were riding in a van, were part of a church congregation from a small town in Louisiana.
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Under a settlement with state attorneys general, Career Education Corp. won't collect some $493 million. It also will be more transparent about the costs and benefits of its programs.
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The advertisements attempt to rebrand negative stereotypes about younger generations as strengths useful in military service.
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A viral police department tweet brought joking messages of sympathy from other police forces, and a delivery of doughnuts from the company.
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Jazmine Barnes was driving with her family early Sunday morning when they were fired upon by a man in a reddish pickup truck, according to police.