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Steve Inskeep is the current host of Morning Edition on National Public Radio, together with Renee Montagne. He has traveled far and wide for the show and also for NPR news. He has also interviewed a number of people such as warlords, authors and musician as also those who are not in the limelight.
His full-time assignment for NPR was the 1996 Presidential primary in New Hampshire, he also covered the Pentagon, the senate as well as the George W Bush's presidential campaign in 2000. He also covered the war in Afghanistan, the war in Iraq and the hunt for Al-Qaeda suspects in Pakistan. He then joined, in 2004, the team that changed the Morning Edition which aggressively covers breaking news by checking the news and making sense of the information before getting it out to the public. At the Morning Edition, he led the team which hosted the program in various locations including Karachi, Detroit, New Orleans and Tehran.
Inskeep and Michele Norris co-hosted The York Project during the 2008 presidential elections whereby they covered series of conversions that dealt with race - a topic that is constantly mention and rarely discussed. Despite the nature of his job, Inskeep strives to look for humanity and humor in the hard times.
Before NPR, he was working for public and commercial radio stations in and around New York City. He has also written articles for publications such as The New York Times and the Washington Post. He is currently writing a book titled Instant City that tackles issues concerning the world's growing urban areas. His first professional experience on radio was at WMKY-FM in Morehead where he was a sportscaster.
Inskeep has a number of awards to his name. His show, The New York Project received a DuPont Silver Baton for excellence. He has also received the 2006 Robert F Kennedy journalism award for “The Price of African Oil”- a series that covered the conflict in Nigeria. He has twice been part of NPR team that received the Alfred I, DuPont-Columbia University Silver Baton for its coverage of Iraq.
Born on June 16th 1968, he was raised in Carmel Indiana and graduated from Morehead State University in Kentucky. He was also awarded an honorary degree in 2009. He currently lives in Washington DC with his wife Carolee whom he met at Morehead and their daughter Ava who was born in 2005. He is inspired by Laughing to Keep From Crying a book by Langston Hughes and also by people like Bordelons.
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