National Public Radio listeners, this is what's up. This fall, there will be a new voice behind Weekend All Things Considered. NPR has named Arun Rath as the new host of the weekend edition of the long-running public radio newsmagazine: NPR NAMES ARUN RATH HOST OF 'WEEKEND ALL THINGS CONSIDERED.'Rath, who has had a distinguished career in public media as a reporter, producer and editor, most recently as a senior reporter for the PBS series Frontline and The World, will take over hosting duties in September.
The Saturday and Sunday edition will also be getting some West Coast flavor as it relocates to the NPR West studios in Culver City, California. Here's some more background on Arun Rath:
Rath began his journalism career as an NPR intern at Talk of the Nation, eventually joining the staff and becoming the show's director after working on several NPR News programs during the 1990s. In 2000, he became senior producer for NPR's On the Media, produced by WNYC, where he was part of a team that tripled its audience and won a Peabody Award. He spent 2005 as senior editor at the culture and arts show Studio 360 from PRI and WNYC. Rath moved to television in 2005 to report and manage radio partnerships for Frontline; he also reports on culture and music for the PBS series, Sound Tracks. At Frontline and The World®, Rath specialized in national security and military justice. He reported and produced three films for Frontline, the latest being an investigation of alleged war crimes committed by U.S. Marines in Haditha, Iraq.As a proud public radio listener, I am looking forward to spending weekends with Mr. Rath on the radio. More here: New host named as NPR's 'Weekend All Things Considered' heads west.