Reena Advani
Reena Advani is an editor for NPR's Morning Edition and NPR's news podcast Up First.
She also oversees Morning Edition's books coverage, accepting pitches from anyone with a compelling story to tell.
Advani was part of the team that covered China's 2019 Belt & Road forum in Beijing, showcasing China's global ambitions and its complex relationship with the United States.
In 2018, Advani edited Morning Edition's live coverage from Memphis, marking 50 years since Martin Luther King Junior's assassination.
In 2016, she was the lead editor on NPR's special documentary looking back at President Obama's eight years in office.
Among Advani's highlights at NPR: bringing Dominique Crenn, Matt Damon, King Abdullah II, Andre Agassi, and Serena Williams to air.
Prior to joining Morning Edition, Advani was a producer for NPR's foreign desk for ten years.
Advani is an East West Center fellow and participated in their first Korea-United States Journalists Exchange. She has also traveled to China, Nepal, and Belgium on journalism fellowships.
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Writer and LGBTQ activist George M. Johnson speaks about what's lost when books like their 2020 memoir All Boys Aren't Blue are banned from school libraries.
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Students from Ukraine are among the finalists in this week's Regeneron International Science and Engineering Fair. They're researching topics from cancer treatments to cockroaches.
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Linguistics professor John McWhorter's new book is Woke Racism: How a New Religion Has Betrayed Black America. He says some in the U.S. cultural left have taken "anti-racism" efforts to extremes.
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Boehner was the Republican speaker of the House during much of the Obama presidency. His new memoir recounts his time leading House Republicans — even if that meant doing things he personally opposed.
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