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Tonya Mosley

Co-Host, Fresh Air

Tonya Mosley is a co-host of Fresh Air. She's also the host of the award-winning podcast Truth Be Told, and a correspondent and former host of Here & Now, the midday radio show co-produced by NPR and WBUR.

Prior to Here & Now, Mosley served as a host and the Silicon Valley bureau chief for KQED in San Francisco. Her other experiences include television correspondent for Al Jazeera America and a television reporter in several cities including Seattle, Wash., and Louisville, Ky.

In 2015, Mosley was awarded a John S. Knight Journalism Fellowship at Stanford University, where she co-created a workshop for journalists on the impacts of implicit bias on reporting and co-wrote a Belgian/American experimental study on the effects of protest coverage. Mosley has won several national awards for her work, including an RTDNA award for her public radio series "Black In Seattle" and an Emmy Award in 2016 for her televised piece "Beyond Ferguson."

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Heat, flash floods and bandits: Migrants risk it all on the treacherous Darién Gap

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Wednesday

From 'E.T.' to 'Blade Runner,' how the summer of 1982 changed cinema forever

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Tuesday

Russian President Vladimir Putin and Chinese President Xi Jinping shake hands during a meeting in Beijing on Oct. 18, 2023. Sergei Guneyev/AFP via Getty Images hide caption

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Thursday

Writer Shalom Auslander catalogs his lifelong battle with self-contempt in 'Feh'

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Wednesday

Filmmakers profile America's economically lost generation in 'Two American Families'

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Thursday

Understanding The Resurgence of Jobs In America's 'Left Behind' Counties

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Monday

Taffy Brodesser-Akner explores wealth and family trauma in 'Long Island Compromise'

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Tuesday

"The first place I learned to be funny was on the schoolyard trying to defuse this weird tension around my body, says Ian Karmel. He won an Emmy Award in 2019 for his work on James Corden's "Carpool Karaoke" special with Paul McCartney. Kenny McMillan/Penguin Random House hide caption

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Thursday

Debate between Biden and Trump is expected to be a test of competence and character

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Wednesday

Michelle Buteau arrives at the Vanity Fair Oscar Party on March 10. Evan Agostini/Invision/AP hide caption

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After the Sept. 11 attacks, Michelle Buteau decided: 'I better start living'

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Tuesday

Ghanaian artist Blitz Bazawule breaks down doors

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Friday

'Slave Play' playwright Jeremy O. Harris is on a mission to diversify theater

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Thursday

Documentary unspools the story behind Diane von Furstenberg's iconic wrap dress

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Wednesday

David Oyelowo on playing justice seekers, peacekeepers and men on a mission

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Thursday

Reconstruction-era records reveal how formerly enslaved people were stripped of land

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Monday

Thursday

'You didn’t See Nothin’' podcast revisits a 1997 Chicago hate crime and its aftermath

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Tuesday

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After a traumatic C-section, journalist takes on the medicalization of birth

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Monday

Michael McDonald, 72, describes his voice as a "malleable" instrument: "Especially with age, it's like you're constantly renegotiating with it." Timothy White/Sacks & Co. hide caption

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With age and sobriety, Michael McDonald is ready to get personal

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Thursday

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Writer Carvell Wallace on past pain and forgiveness: Letting go is 'always available'

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Tuesday

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From child star to 'Abbott,' Tyler James Williams pays it forward to the kids on set

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Wednesday

'Black Twitter' docuseries celebrates the online community with real-world impact

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Monday

"The primary way plants communicate with each other is through a language, so to speak, of chemical gasses," journalist Zoë Schlanger says. Mohd Rasfan/AFP via Getty Images hide caption

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Plants can communicate and respond to touch. Does that mean they're intelligent?

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