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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NPR member station reporters have been stationed along the path of totality — in Arkansas, Ohio, Texas, Maine, and elsewhere — and they're bringing us reactions from observers at these watch-parties.
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There aren't many cranes that have a storied history like the Chesapeake 1000 — nicknamed "Chessy" — which has been brought in to clear Baltimore's Francis Scott Key Bridge. -
Cleanup efforts continue after last week's fatal collapse of the Francis Scott Key Bridge in Baltimore. A key part of the wreckage removal is a decades-old, massive crane.
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NPR's Ailsa Chang talks with Rudy Mancuso about his new movie, Musica. It's his semi-autobiographical film about living with synesthesia and falling in love.
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NPR's Ailsa Chang talks with Regina King and John Ridley, star and director of the biopic Shirley which celebrates Shirley Chisholm, the first Black woman elected to Congress.
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It's been a banner year for women's college basketball. Now, with March Madness upon us, we've talked with some of the star players ready to go big in the NCAA tournament.
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NPR's Ari Shapiro talks with Médecins Sans Frontières Secretary General Chris Lockyear about the view from Gaza, and how the organization is operating there.
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NPR is providing listeners with mini profiles of talented players leading their teams into the tournament, their off court talents and passions and overall chances of making the Final Four.
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NPR's Mary Louise Kelly talks with Hawaiian native Ryan Ozawa about a pair of bills in the state legislature that would make the shaka an official state gesture.
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Scientists have found a 28th moon around Uranus. In keeping with tradition, they plan to name it after a Shakespearean character. Scholar Michael Dobson weighs in on the suggested name, "Violenta."
