Alex Chadwick, NPR Biography
Senior Correspondent, National Desk
For more than 30 years, Alex Chadwick has been bringing the world to NPR listeners as an NPR News producer, program host and currently senior correspondent. He's reported from every continent except Antarctica.
From its launch in 2003 to Fall 2008, Chadwick was co-host of NPR's Day to Day, a weekday, one-hour newsmagazine produced by NPR in collaboration with Slate Magazine. An effortless interviewer, Chadwick connected 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, from the deepest recesses of tropical jungles, while riding surging river rapids, from atop icy mountaintops, and from under the sea. "Radio Expeditions," a co-production of NPR and the National Geographic Society, explored the natural world and diverse cultures with the top-tier aural imagery of National Geographic.
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 segment "Interviews — 50 Cents" on ABC's Day One news magazine. He wrote the CBS 60 Minutes "25th Anniversary Special," as well as a three-hour CBS Reports special on violence, "In the Killing Fields of America." That special 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, Carolyn Jensen, and likes to bicycle to work.
