Kathryn Fink
Kathryn Fink is a producer with NPR's All Things Considered.
She began her public radio career as a producer for 1A, which sealed her fate as a devotee of daily news. After nearly five years at 1A, she left for Bloomberg News, where she launched and oversaw their flagship daily news podcast, The Big Take. Elsewhere, she's published work in The Washington Post, Slate and DCist. She's thrilled to be back in the NPR stratosphere.
Fink loves covering life's oddities. She's interviewed yawping jousters at the Maryland Renaissance Festival. She's recorded the static buzz of the largest supercomputer in the world. She's shadowed DC's rodent control team during a routine rat extermination.
Fink grew up on the Elizabeth River in Norfolk, Virginia. Outside working hours, you can find her making hyper-realistic food earrings out of clay, researching the deathcare industry, or reading Pete the Cat books with elementary school students. Oh, and she does a mean Gollum impression.
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A nonprofit in California is aiming to remove roadblocks for previously incarcerated firefighters and expand the profession in the process. -
NPR's Mary Louise Kelly talks with Evan Osnos, New Yorker staff writer and author of a Joe Biden biography, about this crossroads for the Biden campaign as more Democrats call for him to step aside.
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NPR's Juana Summers talks with Royal Ramey, the co-founder and CEO of the Forestry and Fire Recruitment Program, about the pathway for formerly incarcerated firefighters to build careers in the field.
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NPR's Mary Louise Kelly speaks with U.S. Surgeon General Vivek Murthy about his call to put a warning label on social media platforms. Murthy believes social media can harm teenagers' mental health.
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NPR's Mary Louise Kelly talks with Michael Bommer, a man dying of colon cancer who created an AI avatar of himself for his wife, Anett, to interact with after he dies.
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NPR's Ari Shapiro sits down with retired D.C. Circuit judge David Tatel to talk about his new memoir "Vision."
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Researchers says the movies of the last decade are a missed opportunity, as very few of them address the urgency of climate change. They surveyed 250 of the most popular movies between 2013 and 2022.
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NPR's Ari Shapiro speaks with jury consultant Julie Blackman about what the future holds for some of the jurors who served in former President Trump's hush money case.
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On June 2, 1924, Congress passed a law which granted citizenship -- and the right to vote -- to Native Americans. Has the U.S. has kept the promise of voting rights for Indigenous people?
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NPR's Ari Shapiro talks with attorney Andrew Weissman about a possible appeal in former President Trump's hush money conviction.
