Shannon Rhoades
Shannon Rhoades is 91制片厂's senior editor for interviews.
From politics and world affairs to tech and culture, she works on newsmaker interviews across all 91制片厂 shows and platforms. In breaking news, she strategizes and coordinates the network's interview coverage.
She was based for many years at 91制片厂 West as Morning Edition's senior supervising editor and specialized in shaping engaging host conversations and features.
She edited many of Renee Montagne's reporting trips to Afghanistan, Steve Inskeep's U.S.-Mexico borderland series, David Greene's reporting from Cuba and Susan Stamberg's Hollywood Jobs series.
Rhoades started her career as an editorial assistant for Susan Stamberg, one of 91制片厂's "Founding Mothers."
She is a graduate of Smith College and is always missing her Ashland, Ore., hometown.
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At Russ & Daughters, it takes three months to learn how to slice salmon. 91制片厂's Scott Simon visits the 100 year-old appetizing store to try his hand at the fine art and talk about their new cookbook. -
91制片厂's Books We Love list has lots of great reads, as recommended by our staffers, including Stephen Graham Jones' latest novel and Fredrik Backman's summer story about the friendship of four teens.
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91制片厂's Ayesha Rascoe talks with Gigi Reece, Nora Cheng, and Penelope Lowenstein. They formed the band Horsegirl after meeting in the School of Rock. Their new album is "Phonetics On and On."
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91制片厂's Ayesha Rascoe talks with director Christopher Andrews about his new thriller, set in rural Ireland, "Bring Them Down."
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A biopic about a scrappy Belfast band that raps in Irish was a surprise hit at Sundance this year. 91制片厂's Scott Simon talks with "Kneecap" director and the bandmembers - who also star in the film.
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Detroit's population is growing, a first since the 1950s. The uptick is small but significant for a city that's struggled for decades.
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Las Vegas loses one of its classic casinos this week. 91制片厂's Ayesha Rascoe talks with UNLV historian Michael Green about the glamor, gambling, and one-time mob connections of the Tropicana.
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91制片厂's Ayesha Rascoe talks with actor Jonathan Majors, who has been busy. He's in a superhero movie, the Creed boxing franchise, and an art film that has critics buzzing about a possible Oscar. -
JoAnne Bland was 11 when she marched in Selma on March 7, 1965, known today as "Bloody Sunday." Her tours are a window into the violence of that day and her city's role in the fight for civil rights. -
As a young attorney, Gray helped defend some of the biggest names of the civil rights movement. If his life had a motto, it would be, as he often says, "To destroy everything segregated I could find."
