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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The first images of the object, just a few pixels wide, arrived Tuesday morning. Higher-resolution photographs will be sent back to Earth in the coming weeks. -
Kirstjen Nielsen's visit to Texas and Arizona comes as her department is under scrutiny for the recent deaths of two Guatemalan children in U.S. custody. -
Earlier this year, Japan unsuccessfully lobbied members of the International Whaling Commission to drop the organization's ban on commercial whaling. -
Built in 1936, it was one of only a handful of Bay Area projects by the renowned architect Richard Neutra. -
The 600-foot long ship was stranded just a few hundred feet from shore. Curious onlookers gathered onshore to watch rescue operations near the English city of Falmouth. -
Particularly striking are its well-preserved colors – light yellows, rich blues and a reddish-brown skin tone. Officials announced the discovery Saturday at the site in Saqqara, outside of Cairo. -
The decision came on the eve of the final day of open enrollment for 2019 health care coverage under the Affordable Care Act. -
The sound of motorcycles rumbling through the nation's capital has been a staple of Memorial Day weekend since 1988. -
Both executions and death sentences have declined dramatically since their peak in the late 1990s, according to the Death Penalty Information Center. -
On Wednesday, Susie Goodall was 2,000 miles west of South America when her boat capsized in heavy wind, breaking its mast and knocking her unconscious.
