Jonaki Mehta
Jonaki Mehta is a producer for All Things Considered. Before ATC, she worked at Neon Hum Media where she produced a documentary series and talk show. Prior to that, Mehta was a producer at Member station KPCC and director/associate producer at Marketplace Morning Report, where she helped shape the morning's business news.
Mehta's first job in radio was at NPR West as a National Desk intern. Her career really began when she was nine years old and insisted that the local county paper give Mehta her very own column. (She didn't get the job, but her very patient mother did somehow get her a meeting with the editor-in-chief.) Outside of work, she loves making recipes with harvests from her vegetable garden and riding her motorcycle around L.A.
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Hundreds of A-list celebrities have signed on to support the Committee for the First Amendment, an organization that was created during the Red Scare after World War II, to defend free speech.
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House of Nanking has long been known for simple and fresh homestyle multi-regional Chinese food. Now, Peter and Kathy Fang are sharing their story and culinary secrets in a new cookbook. -
The head of an independent United Nations commission that concludes Israel has committed genocide in Gaza argues that countries supplying weapons to Israel, like the United States, are also complicit. -
Herb Alpert got his start playing trumpet in L.A.'s public schools. He wants to help make that "magic" possible for students. -
The last Saturday in August is Play Music on the Porch Day. People register their porch parties online, and create some free neighborhood music and joy.
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The United Nations has formally declared famine in Northern Gaza - and is warning that over 500,000 people are facing catastrophic starvation. The World Food Programme's Executive Director Cindy McCain is calling for a surge of aid into Gaza.
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Migrants trying to leave from the west African country of Mauritania say they are suffering brutal, inhumane and degrading treatment at the hands of security forces funded by the European Union.
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In this series, NPR takes readers and listeners inside NPR and explains how we do our journalism. Here, Eleanor Beardsley shares what it's like to report from Paris, which is experiencing extreme heat due to climate change, for this week's Reporter's Notebook.
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NPR's Ailsa Chang speaks with Evan Feigenbaum from the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace about the recent downturn in U.S.-India relations, prompted by Trump administration tariff policy.
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President Trump's executive order on how cities and states deal with homelessness encourages removing encampments and getting people into treatment -- through involuntary civil commitment if needed.
