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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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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The proportion of those polled who say global warming is "personally important" to them jumped from 63 to 72 percent last year.
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As winter closed in on the town of Roddickton-Bide Arm in Newfoundland, a pod of seals became separated from open water by miles of ice.
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The Saudi government asked Netflix to remove an episode of the comedian's show Patriot Act that was critical of the regime over the death of Jamal Khashoggi. Netflix said it was following local law.
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Earlier this year, Japan unsuccessfully lobbied members of the International Whaling Commission to drop the organization's ban on commercial whaling.
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Built in 1936, it was one of only a handful of Bay Area projects by the renowned architect Richard Neutra.
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2 Milly introduced the popular Milly Rock dance in a 2014 music video. As of July, characters in Fortnite are able to perform a similar dance.
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The figure at the center of the controversy is Zwarte Piet — Black Pete — often portrayed by people who don Afro wigs and paint their faces black.