Inteview with NPR’s Steve Inskeep

Steve Inskeep, Host of NPR's Morning Edition and the author of Instant City: Life and Death in Karachi

Host: Craig Cohen

Steve Inskeep is the co-host of NPR's Morning Edition, the most widely heard radio news program in the United States. After the September 11, 2001 attacks, Inskeep covered the war in Afghanistan, the hunt for al-Qaeda suspects in Pakistan, and the war in Iraq for NPR. In 2003, he received a National Headliner Award for investigating a military raid that went wrong in Afghanistan. Since joining Morning Edition in 2004, Inskeep has hosted the program from New Orleans, Detroit, Karachi, Cairo, and Tehran; investigated Iraqi police in Baghdad; and received a 2006 Robert F. Kennedy journalism award for "The Price of African Oil," a series on conflict in Nigeria. Inskeep is also the author of Instant City: Life and Death in Karachi, a story of ordinary, often heroic people and their struggles to build one of the world's great megacities.