Joseph Shapiro is a NPR News Investigations correspondent.
Shapiro s major investigative stories include his reports on the way rising court fines and fees create an unequal system of justice for the poor and the rise of modern day debtors prisons, the failure of colleges and universities to punish for on-campus sexual assaults, the epidemic of sexual assault of people with intellectual disabilities, the problems with solitary confinement, the inadequacy of civil rights laws designed to get the elderly and people with disabilities out of nursing homes, and the little-known profits involved in the production of medical products from donated human cadavers.
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Weekend Edition Sunday and one of the hosts of NPR s morning news podcast
Up First
. She is infamous in the IT department of NPR for losing laptops to bullets, hurricanes, and bomb blasts.
Before joining the Sunday morning team, she served as an NPR correspondent based in Brazil, Israel, Mexico, and Iraq. She was one of the first reporters to enter Libya after the 2011 Arab Spring uprising began and spent months painting a deep and vivid portrait of a country at war. Often at great personal risk, Garcia-Navarro captured history in the making with stunning insight, courage, and humanity.
For her work covering the Arab Spring, Garcia-Navarro was awarded a 2011 George Foster Peabody Award, a Lowell Thomas Award from the Overseas Press Club, an Edward R. Murrow Award from the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, and the Alliance for Women and the Media s Gracie Award for Outstanding Individual Achievement. She contributed to NPR News reporting on Iraq, which was recognized with a 200
• Jan 15, 2019
Twenty-three-year-old jazz pianist James Francies has his musical fingerprints all over the place. From leading his own group at 2019 sWinter Jazzfest in New York City to playing shows in Tokyo with guitar legend Pat Metheny, the current pace of Francies s life is constantly in motion. It just feels like you re on a plane, Francies says. Four thousand feet, traveling six hundred miles an hour.
Last fall, Blue Note Records released
Flight, Francies s debut album.
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