Steve Inskeep
Weekend Host, All Things Considered

Steve Inskeep is the weekend host of All Things Considered. Prior to joining the broadcast, Steve served as a correspondent covering national security issues for NPR. His reports have been heard regularly on NPR's award-winning newsmagazines All Things Considered, Morning Edition, and Week Edition Saturday, and in NPR's newscasts.

After reporting from the Pentagon on Sept. 11 and the weeks afterward, Inskeep covered the conflict in Afghanistan. Arriving just as the Taliban began to collapse in November, he traveled across much of the country, reporting from Kunduz, Mazar-e Sharif and Kandahar, and elsewhere. His reports on the moves of U.S., Afghan, and al Qaeda forces frequently broke new ground, as did his reports on the struggles of ordinary Afghans. Afterward, Inskeep traveled to Pakistan, covering, among other stories, the capture of al Qaeda senior leader Abu Zubaydah.

Inskeep has covered major stories since his first full day at NPR, when he traveled into a New Hampshire snowstorm to report on the 1996 presidential primary. Later, he reported on the investigations of three air disasters in the Atlantic Ocean: TWA Flight 800, Swissair, and Egypt Air. In 1999 Inskeep was awarded a Pew Fellowship in International Journalism, and traveled to Colombia to report on that country's civil war. Upon his return, he was named NPR's Pentagon correspondent, and joined an award-winning team that covered the Kosovo bombing campaign.

In 2000, he left the Pentagon to cover the Presidential election for NPR, traveling with the campaign of then-Governor George W. Bush. On one of history's most bizarre election nights, Inskeep filed live reports for 20 straight hours from Bush headquarters in Austin, Texas. He went on to cover the Florida election dispute. He was in the room in Tallahassee as officials certified Bush's victory, and reported from Washington on the night that Al Gore conceded defeat. Assigned to cover Congress in 2001, Inskeep reported on the 50-50 Senate - from its opening day to the moment five months later when Senator Jim Jeffords' party switch broke the tie. On Sept. 11, he was re-assigned to cover the military.

His favorite stories, however, remain the offbeat ones. Rats in Washington, and the people who love them. A professional wrestler looking back on his career. A dead steel mill in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania. An entire Kentucky town being moved to a new location. Retired nuclear missile silo employees (a.k.a. missileers). CIA employees forced to read millions of old secret documents. Protesters camped on a bombing range. A town of 11 people, tucked deep in a West Virginia gorge.

Born in Carmel, Indiana, Inskeep graduated from Morehead State University in Kentucky in 1990. He worked as a sportscaster for Eastern Kentucky radio stations. He also attended New York City's Hunter College, and lived for several years in New York City, working for public radio stations WFUV and WBGO. In New York he filed for various print publications including The New York Times, and worked as a freelance news anchor for WOR-AM, one of the nation's oldest radio stations.

Inskeep now lives in Washington with his wife Carolee, an author of several reference books on genealogy.