Taylor Haney
Taylor Haney is a producer and director for NPR's Morning Edition and Up First.
In 2022, he produced a Morning Edition series from on the anniversary of the U.S. withdrawal and return to Taliban rule. His work also brought him to to produce stories on the country's elections and democratic backsliding 12 years after the Arab Spring.
He was in Des Moines for the 2020 Iowa Caucuses to produce a live broadcast from a coffee shop. He produced , an audio/visual project ahead of the 2018 midterm elections that won a White House News Photographer Association Award. He was in Houston as Hurricane Harvey hit in 2017. He once spent a year investigating an of a horse theft.
Some of his favorite work on Morning Edition has brought listeners moments of musical joy and ecstasy, including interviews with funk bassist and Inuk artist .
As a Fulbright fellow, he studied Tibetan music in Dharamshala, India. Before joining NPR, he interned for KPCC in Pasadena, Calif., and earned a master's degree from USC's Annenberg School of Journalism.
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Tagaq, a recipient of the national Polaris Music Prize, discusses the subjugation of Canada's Indigenous people and her hopes for healing through acknowledging that difficult history. -
Zara Rutherford set off from Belgium in August to circle the globe in her Shark UL plane. Five months later, she landed back home, having landed in 41 countries on five continents. -
Gen. David Berger, commandant of the Marine Corps, has a new plan to recruit and retain Marines, as the service seeks to prioritize growing a corps of highly skilled and educated workers. -
"We're all taught that the success of a relationship has to somehow correlate with the length of it ... I just don't think that that's fully accurate." The singer-songwriter's new album is out today. -
Belugas play, a sperm whale nurses, and orcas teach their pups to hunt in a series of photographs from National Geographic photographer and explorer Brian Skerry. -
The first time Jason Burt listened to his grandfather's World War II Army Air Force Band recordings after finding them in his attic, "it was like my own private concert with my grandpa." -
2020 was set to be a fruitful year for the artist, full of travel and music. In her contribution to Morning Edition's Song Project, she faces the reality of that loss and finds hope in starting over. -
Just Scream is simple: Dial the hotline. Wait for the beep. Scream. Hang up. Feel free to leave everything from horror-movie wails and to messages of hope. But hurry up 鈥� the line closes Thursday. -
Downs speaks with Rachel Martin about "Dark Eyes," a song inspired by essential workers from Native American communities who are often overlooked. -
On Sunday, the Delaware Humane Society will honor the "wags to riches" journey of the future first dog with a virtual ceremony. The Bidens adopted Major from the shelter in 2018.
