Guy Raz

Guy Raz /ˈɡaɪ ˈrɑːz/ (born 1975) is a journalist, correspondent and radio host, currently working at National Public Radio (NPR). He was the youngest overseas-based bureau chief for NPR, first in Berlin, then London and the Pentagon. He also served as CNN's correspondent in Jerusalem from 2004–2006.

As a host and correspondent, Guy has interviewed and profiled more than 6000 people including Christopher Hitchens, Condoleezza Rice, Jimmy Carter, Shimon Peres, General David Petraeus, Al Gore, Mark Zuckerberg, Bill Gates, Eminem, Taylor Swift and many many others. Guy has anchored live coverage on some of the biggest stories in recent years including the killing of Osama bin Laden, the Newtown School Shootings and the 2012 Presidential election.

Raz covered the conflicts in Kosovo, Macedonia, Afghanistan, and Iraq. He has reported from more than 40 countries. Raz is also the creator of NPR’s popular segment "Three Minute Fiction."

Education

Raz is a 1996 graduate of Brandeis University.

He received his master's degree in history from Cambridge University in the UK.

In 2008, aged 33, Raz spent a year as a Nieman journalism fellow at Harvard University where he studied classical history.

Career

NPR: All Things Considered

In 1997, at the age of 22, Guy joined NPR as an intern for NPR's weekend afternoon news program Weekend All Things Considered and has worked virtually every job in the newsroom from temporary production assistant to breaking news anchor.

After a 7 year break from All Things Considered, during which Raz worked as a foreign correspondent in Berlin, London and man countries around the world, Raz returned to the show, but this time as host. In 2009 Guy became the weekend host of All Things Considered. He created a weekly podcast of this show which was the first time an NPR newsmagazine became a podcast. Raz hosted Weekend All Things Considered from 2009 to 2012. In December 2012, he stepped down from that position in order to expand the TED Radio Hour into a new weekly program to air on NPR beginning in March 2013.

CNN correspondent

For a brief, 2-year stint, Raz left NPR to work as CNN’s Jerusalem correspondent.

NPR Defense correspondent

Following the 2 years working for CNN, Raz returned to NPR, working as the defense correspondent, covering the Pentagon and the US military.

TED Radio Hour

Guy was the host and editorial director of the TED Radio Hour. Launched in 2013, TED Radio Hour is a co-production of NPR and TED that takes listeners on a journey through the world of ideas.

Breakfast Blast Newscast on Kids Place Live

Guy is known as the "Cokie Roberts for the 4-8-year-old crowd" as the news analyst for the Breakfast Blast Newscast on Kids Place Live on SiriusXM radio.

Teaching

Raz served as a Ferris professor of journalism at Princeton University and taught journalism at Georgetown and George Washington Universities.

NPR podcast: How I Built This

In September 2016, Guy Raz started hosting a new podcast on NPR, called How I Built This about entrepreneurship.

Awards

For his reporting from Iraq, Guy was awarded both the Edward R. Murrow Award and the Daniel Schorr Journalism prize.

His reporting has contributed to two duPont awards and one Peabody awarded to NPR.

He's been a finalist for the Livingston Award four times.

Other awards he has won include the National Headliner Award and an NABJ award.

Personal Life

Living in Washington DC, Raz is married to Hannah Raz, an attorney lawyer. The couple married in the late of 2008.

Guy is a proud father.

He's also a baseball fan, an avid cyclist, makes his own kombucha, almond milk and pickles vegetables.