Ian Stewart
Ian (pronounced "yahn") Stewart is a producer and editor for Weekend Edition and Up First.
He's followed presidential candidates around his home state (Iowa), reported on emergency food banks in D.C., 'silent canvassing' in Milwaukee, the impact of climate change on Miami's most vulnerable and his pandemic road trip, and he once managed to get dragon sound effects on the air. He created the show's 'signature song' and music starter kit series. He line produces the show, has directed special coverage of election nights and congressional hearings, and was NPR's coordinating producer in Ukraine during the invasion in February and March 2022.
He came to NPR in 2014 after interning at All Things Considered and studying architecture and politics at Middlebury College.
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At the end of the year, NPR's Weekend Edition will feature stories of people in your lives who passed away in 2019.
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Do you have a song you keep coming back to year after year or a song you always play? NPR's Weekend Edition wants to hear about the piece of music that has a particularly special meaning for you.
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In Miami, the effects of global warming are not hypothetical predictions but realities of everyday life, prompting change by government, businesses and individuals alike.
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The medical community in Florida is increasingly sounding the alarm about the health risks associated with rising temperatures.
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Lux Prima is a new nine-song album that features otherworldly orchestrations from Grammy-winning artist Danger Mouse and vocals from Yeah Yeah Yeahs frontwoman Karen O.
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NPR's Weekend Edition is looking for people to share their stories of religious conversion. What religion did you convert to and why?
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Michael Ertel stepped down shortly after the Tallahassee Democrat showed the photos to the office of Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis.
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Zephen Allen Xaver, 21, has been charged with five counts of first-degree murder after allegedly killing five women inside a bank in Sebring, Fla., on Wednesday.
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Police say they responded to a 911 call from someone who said he had opened fire in a SunTrust bank in Sebring, Fla., on Wednesday afternoon. The suspect is a former trainee prison guard.
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Nathan Sutherland, 36, a licensed practical nurse who police say worked at the Hacienda HealthCare facility in Phoenix, has been charged with sexual assault and vulnerable adult abuse.