Noel King
Noel King is a host of Morning Edition and Up First.
Previously, as a correspondent at Planet Money, Noel's reporting centered on economic questions that don't have simple answers. Her stories have explored what is owed to victims of police brutality who were coerced into false confessions, how institutions that benefited from slavery are atoning to the descendants of enslaved Americans, and why a giant Chinese conglomerate invested millions of dollars in her small, rural hometown. Her favorite part of the job is finding complex, and often conflicted, people at the center of these stories.
Noel has also served as a fill-in host for Weekend All Things Considered and 1A from NPR Member station WAMU.
Before coming to NPR, she was a senior reporter and fill-in host for Marketplace. At Marketplace, she investigated the causes and consequences of inequality. She spent five months embedded in a pop-up news bureau examining gentrification in an L.A. neighborhood, listened in as low-income and wealthy residents of a single street in New Orleans negotiated the best way to live side-by-side, and wandered through Baltimore in search of the legacy of a $100 million federal job-creation effort.
Noel got her start in radio when she moved to Sudan a few months after graduating from college, at the height of the Darfur conflict. From 2004 to 2007, she was a freelancer for Voice of America based in Khartoum. Her reporting took her to the far reaches of the divided country. From 2007 - 2008, she was based in Kigali, covering Rwanda's economic and social transformation, and entrenched conflicts in the the Democratic Republic of Congo. From 2011 to 2013, she was based in Cairo, reporting on Egypt's uprising and its aftermath for PRI's The World, the CBC, and the BBC.
Noel was part of the team that launched The Takeaway, a live news show from WNYC and PRI. During her tenure as managing producer, the show's coverage of race in America won an RTDNA UNITY Award. She also served as a fill-in host of the program.
She graduated from Brown University with a degree in American Civilization, and is a proud native of Kerhonkson, NY.
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NPR spoke to the country's top diplomat, Peter Szijjarto, about his government's hard-line stances against migration and liberal European Union policies. -
Joseph Maguire, the acting director of National Intelligence, testifies about his handling of a whistleblower's complaint at the center of an of an impeachment inquiry against President Trump.
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Acting Director of National Intelligence Joseph Maguire faces tough questioning at the House Intelligence Committee hearing.
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The House Intelligence Committee has released the whistleblower complaint at the heart of the burgeoning controversy over President Trump's July phone call with the Ukrainian president.
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The House Intelligence Committee has released the whistleblower complaint at the center of the controversy over President Trump's July conversation with Ukraine's president.
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Account of Trump's call with Ukraine's president released. Acting director of national intelligence is on Capitol Hill. Letter undercuts Trump's assertion on delaying aid to Ukraine over corruption.
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President Trump says notes from his phone call with the Ukrainian leader show it was "nothing." Democrats argue otherwise as some Republicans echo Trump's take.
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The Trump administration releases a memo of a call between President Trump and Ukraine's leader. A big question: did Trump pressure the Ukrainian president to investigate a political opponent?
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An assessment of the phone call between President Trump and the Ukrainian president and what could happen — especially with the intelligence community's whistleblower complaint — moving forward.
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NPR's Noel King speaks with Samantha Power about her memoir The Education of an Idealist. In her book, Power describes how she went from working outside the system to moving inside, as a diplomat.
