Starting soon, Alisa Chang will host All Things Considered along with Audie Cornish, Mary Louise Kelly, and Ari Shapiro; and Noel King will join David Greene, Steve Inskeep, and Rachel Martin as the fourth host of Morning Edition and the Up First podcast. King and Chang will continue their enterprise reporting on Planet Money.
“Audiences already know and love Noel and Ailsa from NPR’s Peabody award-winning podcast Planet Money; now they will hear them daily hosting our morning and evening drive news magazines,” says Chris Turpin, acting Senior Vice President for News. “They will join seasoned teams that have mastered deep-dive, sound-rich, enterprise journalism
alongside live and on-location reporting. The expanded host lineup will strengthen both shows by allowing them to take on more ambitious projects both in the U.S and overseas.”
According to Nielsen Audio Spring 2017 ratings, the total weekly listeners for all programming on NPR stations reached an all-time high of 37.7 million. Both Morning Edition and All Things Considered retained the remarkable growth seen during the Fall 2016 election cycle. Their weekly audience is at 14.63 million and 14.6 million listeners, respectively.
