Christopher Intagliata
Christopher Intagliata is an editor at All Things Considered, where he writes news and edits interviews with politicians, musicians, restaurant owners, scientists and many of the other voices heard on the air.
Before joining NPR, Intagliata spent more than a decade covering space, microbes, physics and more at the public radio show Science Friday. As senior producer and editor, he set overall program strategy, managed the production team and organized the show's national event series. He also helped oversee the development and launch of Science Friday's narrative podcasts Undiscovered and Science Diction.
While reporting, Intagliata has skated Olympic ice, shadowed NASA astronaut hopefuls across Hawaiian lava and hunted for beetles inside dung patties on the Kansas prairie. He also reports regularly for Scientific American, and was a 2015 Woods Hole Ocean Science Journalism fellow.
Prior to becoming a journalist, Intagliata taught English to bankers and soldiers in Verona, Italy, and traversed the Sierra Nevada backcountry as a field biologist, on the lookout for mountain yellow-legged frogs.
Intagliata has a master's degree in science journalism from New York University, and a bachelor's degree in biology and Italian from the University of California, Berkeley. He grew up in Orange, Calif., and is based at NPR West in Culver City.
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NPR's Ailsa Chang talks with law professor David Cole of Georgetown University about the accountability of federal officers, after an ICE agent shot and killed Renee Macklin Good in Minnesota.
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Washington, D.C., set a world record of most couples kissing underneath the mistletoe. Exactly 1,435 couples turned up to smooch for five seconds under the festive greenery on Saturday.
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Government grazing permits are much cheaper than market price, and a new investigation by High Country News and ProPublica finds most of the cost savings benefit billionaire ranchers and corporations.
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The Trump administration fired immigration judges in New York on Monday. NPR's Ailsa Chang speaks with Jeremiah Johnson Executive Vice President of the National Association of Immigration Judges.
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Head Start centers in Florida provide child care and education for the kids of migrant and seasonal farmworkers. The government shutdown has forced these centers to shutter, at least temporarily.
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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. -
At this time of year, the flor de izote blooms in Los Angeles. The Salvadoran-American chef Karla Tatiana Vasquez says the flowers are both a delicacy and a connection to her identity. -
Alexander Sammon received a suspicious job recruitment text from someone who claimed to be a hiring manager. He decided to play along to see how far the scam would go, and wrote about it for Slate.
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Danielle Bensky, who met Jeffrey Epstein when she was a young ballerina, is speaking out against the Justice Department's decision not to release additional documents about his case.
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Eighty-year-old Bob Becker became the oldest person ever to complete the grueling Badwater 135 ultramarathon, starting in Death Valley's sweltering heat and covering three mountain ranges.
