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Ari Shapiro is an award-winning journalist who spent 25 years at NPR, including a decade as host of the evening news program All Things Considered and the podcast Consider This. He has been a category on Jeopardy and an answer in the New York Times crossword puzzle.

Ari has reported from above the Arctic Circle and aboard Air Force One. He has covered wars in Iraq, Ukraine, and Israel, and he has filed stories from five continents and most of the 50 states. Before becoming a host in 2015, he was NPR’s international correspondent based in London. Shapiro took on that role after four years as White House Correspondent during the Obama presidency. In 2012, he embedded with the presidential campaign of Republican Mitt Romney. He was NPR’s Justice Correspondent for five years during the George W. Bush administration.

His debut memoir, “The Best Strangers in the World: Stories from a Life Spent Listening,” was an instant New York Times bestseller. He hosted the reality competition “The Mole” on Netflix. As a singer, he has performed in some of the world’s most storied venues, from Carnegie Hall to the Hollywood Bowl.

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