Kelly McEvers | |
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.jpg) McEvers in 2013 | |
| Born | 1969 or 1970 (age 54–55)[1] |
| Nationality | American |
| Occupation | Journalist |
| Known for | All Things Considered |
| Spouse | Nathan Deuel |
| Children | 1 |
Kelly McEvers is an American journalist. McEvers is host ofNPR's "Embedded" podcast. She was a co-host ofNPR's flagship newsmagazineAll Things Considered until February 2018 . Before this she was a foreign correspondent for NPR, in which she covered momentous international events including the withdrawal of American troops from Iraq, Middle East uprisings associated with theArab Spring, and theSyrian civil war.[2]
McEvers graduated fromLincoln Community High School in 1988.[1] McEvers began her career as a reporter for theChicago Tribune in 1997.[2] She went on to cover Cambodia for theBBC in 1999–2000, then Indonesia, Malaysia and Singapore after 9/11 as an independent reporter.[2] During the next several years, she continued to work as a freelance journalist in other areas of the world. McEvers covered the former Soviet Union from 2004 to 2006 forPRI'sThe World, in the course of which she was detained by Russian security forces.[2][3][4]
From 2007 to 2009, she helped produce the award-winning series "Working" for the radio programMarketplace, filing several stories on topics ranging from sex workers in Azerbaijan to bankers in Dubai.[5][6]
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McEvers has covered the Middle East as an independent journalist and for NPR, from Saudi Arabia to Iraq in 2010, then at various locations in 2011 during theArab Spring. She moved to Beirut in 2012.[2] In 2013, she made a radio documentary about her time as a war correspondent calledDiary of a Bad Year.[7]
On September 21, 2015, McEvers joined NPR'sAll Things Considered as a co-host.[8] In 2016, she became the host of NPR podcastEmbedded.[9]
McEvers has also written for theChristian Science Monitor,New York Times Magazine,Esquire,Foreign Policy.The New Republic,Slate,The Washington Monthly, and theSan Francisco Chronicle.
She was a fellow at theInternational Center for Journalists.[10]
McEvers was born inLincoln, Illinois.[11] She has a B.A. from theUniversity of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, and an M.S. in journalism fromNorthwestern University.[11]
She is married to Nathan Deuel, who is also a reporter and writer, and they have one daughter.[11][12]
