Sami Yenigun
Sami Yenigun is the Executive Producer of NPR's All Things Considered and the Consider This podcast. Yenigun works with hosts, editors, and producers to plan and execute the editorial vision of NPR's flagship afternoon newsmagazine and evening podcast. He comes to this role after serving as a Supervising Editor on All Things Considered, where he helped launch Consider This and oversaw the growth of the newsmagazine on new platforms.
Prior to joining All Things Considered, Yenigun edited NPR's Code Switch podcast, worked as a field producer for the Education Desk, and was deployed in various breaking news assignments for the network. In 2014, he was part of a team that won a Peabody Award for it's coverage of the Ebola outbreak in West Africa, and in 2017, was on a team of Education reporters that won an NPR Murrow award for innovation.
Yenigun began at NPR in 2010 as a digital intern for NPR Music. He later joined NPR's Cultural Desk where he learned to produce and report for audio.
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No "may" about it — these definitely were the best electronic jams we heard last month.
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New music from Four Tet, Prince-inspired funk, and sinister techno: It's All Songs Considered's monthly mix of our favorite new electronic jams.
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Bruising basslines, staccato synths and rave-worthy rhythms: It's our five favorite electronic dance tracks of the last month.
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A Pew Study finds that the milliennial generation has a low level of social trust. There are several possible causes for this distrust, including a skewed social media culture and a faltering economy.
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All Songs Considered's favorite electronic jams from February include a legit underground anthem, African field recordings, and yet another promising producer from Detroit.
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Recommended Dose is a round-up of some of the best new electronic dance songs. Our inaugural installment includes music from Disclosure, Detroit legends Theo Parrish and Moodymann and more.
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At our desks, in nightclubs, and over bedroom speaker systems, these are the tracks that made us move.
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After the Boston Marathon bombing, Storyful helped journalists verify that a popular YouTube video was actually an eyewitness account. But it doesn't stop there — the company also hopes to change the "Wild West" model of news organizations using citizen journalists' uploaded content free.
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Last week a video of a girl dancing, falling and catching on fire made its way onto cable and local news networks. This week, late night TV host Jimmy Kimmel came forward to reveal that the video was a hoax and that he staged the whole thing. It's not the first time the press has been duped by videos engineered to go viral.
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In January of 1993, Tupac Shakur was 21 years old. He was about to drop his contradictory second album, which would launch him to superstardom.