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Ned Wharton is a senior producer and music director for Weekend Edition.

Ann Marie Baldonado is an interview contributor and long-time producer at Fresh Air with Terry Gross. She is currently Fresh Air's Director of Talent Development. She got her start in radio in 1997 as a production assistant at WHYY and joined Fresh Air in 1998. For over 20 years, she has focused on the show's TV and film interviews. She became a contributing interviewer in 2015, talking with comedians, actors, directors and musicians like Ali Wong, Kumail Nanjiani, John Cho and Jeff Tweedy. In 2020, Baldonado hosted the limited-run podcast Parent Trapped, about the struggles of parenting during the pandemic. She talked to Julie Andrews about encouraging creativity in your kids, and comedian W. Kamau Bell about what to watch with them.

Renee Montagne, one of the best-known names in public radio, was reporter, host, and correspondent for NPR for over 40 years.

Samantha Balaban is a Senior Producer at Weekend Edition. Most days, you can find her under a pile of books and mail coordinating the show’s book coverage. She's also responsible for Picture This, a series of conversations with authors and illustrators.

Toward the end of the standoff, survivors of the attack told police "the shooter said he was going to put four vests with bombs on victims within 15 minutes," the FBI says.

An NPR reader wrote to All Tech Considered, asking for help quantifying texting's impact. We consult Mike Berners-Lee, who studied "the carbon footprint of everything."

All summer, a wide range of hits were in the running for the biggest songs of the season — country singalongs, rap diss tracks, pop kiss-offs and rock epics. But two took the race down to the wire.

On a fall morning, Gary Jones takes a walk in his wooded property in Licking County. Like many people, long walks helps him to clear his head.“So it’s all…

How is the economy really doing? We put the noise of politics aside and break down the numbers, right down to your wallet.

The judge in the Lewis Libby case reluctantly releases recordings of Libby's grand jury testimony. The prosecution says the recordings capture Libby lying under oath about his role in the leak of a CIA agent's identity.