Lulu Garcia-Navarro
Lulu Garcia-Navarro is the host of 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 2005 Peabody Award and a 2007 Alfred I. duPont-Columbia University Silver Baton. She has also won awards for her work on migration in Mexico and the Amazon in Brazil.
Since joining Weekend Edition Sunday, Garcia-Navarro and her team have also received a Gracie for their coverage of the #MeToo movement. She's hard at work making sure Weekend Edition brings in the voices of those who will surprise, delight, and move you, wherever they might be found.
Garcia-Navarro got her start in journalism as a freelancer with the BBC World Service and Voice of America. She later became a producer for Associated Press Television News before transitioning to AP Radio. While there, Garcia-Navarro covered post-Sept. 11 events in Afghanistan and developments in Jerusalem. She was posted for the AP to Iraq before the U.S.-led invasion, where she stayed covering the conflict.
Garcia-Navarro holds a Bachelor of Science degree in international relations from Georgetown University and an Master of Arts degree in journalism from City University in London.
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NPR's Lulu Garcia-Navarro talks with baby sleep consultant Alexis Dubief about her revised recommendations for parents following reporting on the dangers of inclined infant sleepers.
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After residents complained they were being held hostage by pooping, screaming birds, Miami officials voted to cull some of the hundreds of peacocks that roam the streets of Coconut Grove.
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Rains have put out the last of the fires in Australia's New South Wales. Biologist Lesley Hughes tells NPR's Lulu Garcia-Navarro about damage in the burned areas and whether regeneration is possible.
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NPR's Lulu Garcia-Navarro talks to reporter Keri Blakinger of The Marshall Project about the shift in how some news outlets are using mug shots.
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This week the ALMA telescope in Chile presented the aftermath of the incredible cosmic confrontation: a spectacular celestial cloud.
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James Taylor's had a long and rich career, with hits including "Fire and Rain" and "You've Got a Friend." Now he's releasing an audio-only memoir and has a new album of standards coming Feb. 28. -
Baron's new book chronicles the history of the gender-neutral, third-person word, "they."
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A new exhibition in London explores the way pregnancy was depicted — and not depicted — in British artworks. Curator Karen Hearn says these portraits reveal evolving attitudes about pregnant women. -
In the space between 2015's Revival and her latest release, Gomez has battled Lupus, depression and anxiety, and had two high profile breakups — all while millions followed along on social media. -
Brazil's right-wing government filed charges against Greenwald last week, saying he helped hack officials' cell phones. NPR's Lulu Garcia-Navarro speaks with the journalist, who is based in Brazil.
