Korva Coleman
Korva Coleman is a newscaster for NPR.
In this role, she is responsible for writing, producing, and delivering national newscasts airing during NPR's newsmagazines All Things Considered, Morning Edition, and Weekend Edition. Occasionally she serves as a substitute host for Weekend All Things Considered, and Weekend Edition.
Before joining NPR in 1990, Coleman was a staff reporter and copy editor for the Washington Afro-American newspaper. She produced and hosted First Edition, an overnight news program at NPR's member station WAMU-FM in Washington, D.C.
Early in her career, Coleman worked in commercial radio as news and public affairs directors at stations in Phoenix and Tucson.
Coleman's work has been recognized by the Arizona Associated Press Awards for best radio newscast, editorial, and short feature. In 1983, she was nominated for Outstanding Young Woman of America.
Coleman earned a Bachelor of Arts degree from Howard University. She studied law at Georgetown University Law Center.
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Also: Earthquakes also shake Oklahoma; a nonpartisan panel alleges the U.S. committed torture after Sept. 11; "Lumpy Rutherford" of Leave It To Beaver fame dies.
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Also: A deadly storm plows into the South; a suspicious package addressed to a controversial Arizona sheriff is intercepted; Venezuelans go to the polls on Sunday; creating seaweed lattes at a national barista competition; and a teenaged phenom holds his own at the Masters Golf Tournament.
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Also: The Senate is poised to take first votes on gun control; Japanese automakers recall millions of vehicles for defective airbags; posthumous Medal of Honor award to be given to Korean War army chaplain; man fearful of zombies steals tractor trailer, causes huge traffic wreck.
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Also: Cyprus prepares to reopen its banks; North Dakota governor signs three more restrictive abortion laws; a new sinkhole opens in the Florida town where a man recently died in one; and scientists develop a limited kind of invisibility cloak (you can still see it).
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Also: An Italian court orders a murder retrial for Amanda Knox; North Korea issues a bellicose statement, warning of attacks on U.S.; Russian oligarch Boris Berezovsky apparently died by hanging; and the world's longest dodgeball game may have set a world record.
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Also: Cypriot lawmakers debate their country's future solvency; South Korea says China wasn't behind this week's cyberattack; Chicago will close at least 52 elementary schools; and an Ohio prosecutor 'indicts' Punxsutawney Phil for misleading everyone on Groundhog Day about when spring will arrive.
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Also: North Korea ends its armistice with South Korea and cuts the phone hotline to South Korea; a European snow storm snarls travel; five Americans are killed in an Afghan helicopter crash; and NASA will unveil the makeup of Martian soil discovered by the Curiosity Rover's recent drilling effort.
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Forbes' Most Miserable Cities Index for 2013 also has Flint, Mich. and Rockford, Ill. at the top of the list.
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Also: A huge bomb kills dozens in Syria's capital; a new report alleges Mexican authorities "disappeared" hundreds of people; a body is discovered in the Kansas City restaurant destroyed by an explosion; the Curiosity rover digs a sample of dirt from Martian soil.
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Also: Obama holds online "fireside hangout"; January home foreclosures fall; horsemeat discovered in European meat may include a tranquilizer; disheveled passengers on a disabled cruise ship will face a lengthy bus ride when they dock; and billionaire Warren Buffett is buying ketchup maker, Heinz.