Ayesha Rascoe (born June 10, 1986) is an American journalist named host of
Weekend Edition Sunday
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in February 2022. She previously served as the
White House
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reporter for
NPR
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. Rascoe covered the
Obama White House for
Reuters
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The agency was esta ...
before moving to NPR in 2017.
Her stories are regularly broadcast on the NPR shows ''
Morning Edition
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'' and ''
All Things Considered
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,'' and she appears regularly on NPR's ''Politics Podcast''.
Rascoe began her reporting career at Reuters where she covered environment policy, including the
Deepwater Horizon oil spill
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and the response to the
Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster in 2011.
She has appeared on ''
Washington Week
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'',
''Meet The Press'',
CNN
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and
MSNBC
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.
She married Patrick Trice, a U.S. veteran, in 2012. Rascoe received a B.A. in journalism from
Howard University
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where she was editor in chief of the student newspaper
''The Hilltop''.
References
21st-century American journalists
NPR personalities
1986 births
Living people
African-American journalists
American political journalists
Howard University alumni
American women radio journalists
Reuters people
21st-century African-American people
20th-century African-American people
20th-century African-American women
21st-century African-American women
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