As a reporter, producer, and program host, Alex Chadwick has brought listeners some of NPR’s most memorable stories, including a special report on the downfall of communism in Eastern Europe that looked at events in Prague, Czechoslovakia, through the eyes of a young woman leader of the student revolt there, and an investigative report that revealed the extent of US and European involvement in the ongoing regional wars in the eastern Congo region of Africa. Along the way, Chadwick has helped create some of NPR's most successful programs.

Chadwick’s newest role is host of NPR’s new program, Day to Day, a weekday, one-hour newsmagazine produced by NPR in collaboration with Slate Magazine. The program is NPR's first new newsmagazine in almost a generation.

With Day to Day, Chadwick is looking to do something different, to go a little farther out on the edge. Chadwick’s approach to radio carries the mark of a veteran: he presents listeners with news in perspective – relevant and real instead of overly intellectualized and intense. An effortless interviewer, he connects with everyday people and issues in a way that welcomes listeners to even the most challenging subjects.

As host of the award-winning Radio Expeditions series on Morning Edition, Chadwick reported from deserts, the deepest recesses of tropical jungles, surging river rapids, icy mountaintops, and even undersea. Co-produced by NPR and the National Geographic Society, Radio Expeditions features stereo sound productions that explore the natural world and diverse cultures with an aural imagery that seeks to match the standards National Geographic has so long achieved with photography.

Chadwick came to NPR in 1977 as host and producer of NPR's morning news service. He was part of the team that developed Morning Edition, and served as a feature writer and substitute host for the program for many years. His work at NPR includes stints reporting for and hosting the evening news program All Things Considered, as well as Weekend Edition.

Chadwick's work has earned widespread recognition from his peers. Most recently, he won the Sigma Delta Chi Society of Professional Journalists 2002 award for investigative reporting. He has twice won the Overseas Press Club's Lowell Thomas Award for foreign reporting. During his work with Radio Expeditions, the series won the prestigious Alfred I. duPont-Columbia University Award in 2000.

As a freelance television writer, Chadwick created and hosted the feature segments "Interviews - 50 Cents" on ABC's Day One news magazine. He wrote the 60 Minutes "25th Anniversary Special," which was the highest-rated television program for 1993, as well as a three-hour CBS Reports special on violence, "In the Killing Fields of America," which won an Emmy, a 1996 Peabody, and the Robert F. Kennedy Award for reporting on the disadvantaged.

Chadwick lives in Los Angeles with his wife, the executive producer of Radio Expeditions Carolyn Jensen, and likes to bicycle to work.