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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A Marlins-Orioles matchup and a Phillies-Yankees game have both been postponed while the league carries out additional testing. The league's heavily modified 2020 season started last week.
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Reggae's biggest ambassador would have turned 75 this week, had he not died four decades ago from cancer. NPR's Scott Simon talks with Ziggy Marley about his father's legacy.
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At the end of the year, NPR's Weekend Edition will feature stories of people in your lives who passed away in 2019.
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In Miami, the effects of global warming are not hypothetical predictions but realities of everyday life, prompting change by government, businesses and individuals alike.
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The medical community in Florida is increasingly sounding the alarm about the health risks associated with rising temperatures.
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2 Milly introduced the popular Milly Rock dance in a 2014 music video. As of July, characters in Fortnite are able to perform a similar dance.
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The figure at the center of the controversy is Zwarte Piet — Black Pete — often portrayed by people who don Afro wigs and paint their faces black.
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Lori Alhadeff's mission is to make all U.S. schools safe, starting with Broward County, Fla. After her daughter was killed in February's mass shooting, politics has become her vehicle for change.
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Set amid a theoretical debate about a potential Whole Foods arriving in the historically underserved Washington, D.C. neighborhood, the musical looks at the good and the bad of gentrification.
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The Pulitzer Prize-winning author was separated from his family as a child. He says the Trump administration's policy is "inhumane, it's immoral and the United States is simply doing the wrong thing."