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He has worn many hats at NPR: intern, personal assistant to Daniel Schorr, general assignment reporter, foreign correspondent and a bureau chief in Berlin and London.
Guy Raz has paid his dues.
Raz was named the weekend host of the network's afternoon newsmagazine, All Things Considered (ATC) in July.
ATC's Weekend Edition follows developing and breaking news stories, and brings listeners in-depth interviews, features and cultural reviews. As program host, Raz is just as likely to do a piece about international politics as he is to do a cooking segment in a D.C. kitchen or talk to a Borneo-born jazz singer.
Raz spent six years abroad, reporting from more than 40 countries, for both NPR and CNN. While at CNN (2004-06), he was the television network's Jerusalem correspondent where he chronicled the rise of Hamas as a political power, the incapacitation of Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon and Israel's withdrawal from the Gaza Strip in 2005, among others.
He returned to NPR in 2006, covering the Pentagon as a defense correspondent. For his reporting on the military, Raz was awarded both the 2008 Edward R. Murrow Award for best news series and the 2008 Daniel Schorr Journalism Prize awarded by WBUR/Boston. Upon receiving a Nieman Journalism Fellowship from Harvard, he took a sabbatical (2008-09) and studied classical history.
Raz's work has appeared in Salon, Washington City Paper, The Washington Post, The Christian Science Monitor, and the German daily, Sueddeutsche Zeitung.
He holds a B.A. in history from Brandeis University and a master's degree in history from England's Cambridge University.
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