Tracy Wahl
In her nearly 20 years at NPR, Tracy Wahl has established herself as a champion for innovation in the newsroom. She was among the first at NPR to embrace social media as a way to engage audiences and deepen our journalism through crowd-sourced reporting. She launched Morning Edition's first Twitter account, and led the program's early ventures into multi-platform storytelling.
She is passionate about experimentation, and incubating new ideas and talent. During her tenure as Executive Producer of Morning Edition she made the program a start-up space for great work. She launched the Morning Edition Book Club, oversaw the ambitious, award-winning cross-network "Borderland" series, and inaugurated The Race Card Project with Michele Norris as a regular feature of the program.
She partnered with the Science Desk and Shankar Vedantam to develop "Hidden Brain" on Morning Edition,whichspun off as a podcast in 2015. She was also part of the team that launched Invisibilia as a broadcast segment and podcast.
In her current position as Executive Producer for Editorial Franchises, Tracy develops new approaches to how we imagine and create our highest profile editorial projects — franchises — that focus on a shared idea and draw from almost every division from News to Music to events. This work is critically important as NPR works to reach new audiences wherever they are.
Since joining NPR in 1997, Wahl has produced a wide range of radio and multimedia pieces from across the U.S. and around the world. Highlights of her tenure include producing coverage from the Gulf Coast during Hurricane Katrina, reports from north of the Arctic Circle, and coverage from Karachi, Pakistan.
She came to NPR from Madison, Wisconsin, where she was pursuing a Ph.D. program in political science where she focused on Comparative Politics and Political Theory.
She was born in Cheyenne, Wyoming, and spent much of her childhood in Colorado where her family goes back many generations.
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A fascinating true-crime case and the shame of being well-rested: two of the stories recommended by NPR staff, using the #NPRreads hashtag. -
Correspondents, editors and producers from our newsroom share the pieces that have kept them reading, using the #NPRreads hashtag. Each weekend, we highlight some of the best stories. -
Cuban-American poet and author Margarita Engle praises President Obama's "courage to make peace" with Cuba. Her book Enchanted Air tells of being separated from her Cuban family members. -
A deep dive into the physical costs of football — and not, this time, about concussions. A meditation on truth and communication from a sports blog. And a British interview with an American poet. -
One Christmas, former stunt man Mick Kipp gave everyone he knew a bottle of hot sauce he made. That idea grew into a business. He tests his latest concoction for us: chocolate cayenne hot sauce.
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In her poems, Margaret Robison describes her recovery from stroke and the time she spent in a psychiatric hospital. But it's her son Augustin Burroughs' words in his memoir Running with Scissors that have defined her.
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Over the past decade, hundreds of thousands of foreign-born high-tech workers have come to the United States thanks to the H-1B visa guest worker program. A new album mixes Indian and Western musical influences to take a lighthearted look at the techie immigrant's life in America.
