Brian Mann
Brian Mann is NPR's first national addiction correspondent. He also covers breaking news in the U.S. and around the world.
Mann began covering drug policy and the opioid crisis as part of a partnership between NPR and North Country Public Radio in New York. After joining NPR full time in 2020, Mann was one of the first national journalists to track the deadly spread of the synthetic opioid fentanyl, reporting from California and Washington state to West Virginia.
After losing his father and stepbrother to substance abuse, Mann's reporting breaks down the stigma surrounding addiction and creates a factual basis for the ongoing national discussion.
Mann has also served on NPR teams covering the Beijing Winter Olympics and the war in Ukraine.
During a career in public radio that began in the 1980s, Mann has won numerous regional and national Edward R. Murrow awards. He is author of a 2006 book about small town politics called Welcome to the Homeland, described by The Atlantic as "one of the best books to date on the putative-red-blue divide."
Mann grew up in Alaska and is now based in New York's Adirondack Mountains. His audio postcards, broadcast on NPR, describe his backcountry trips into wild places around the world.
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More than two years after the Beijing Winter Games and a Russian doping controversy, the U.S. figure skating team finally received the gold medals the team won during a ceremony at the Paris Olympics. -
Olympic events are winding down, but there is still much to go. A highlight from the Paris Games Tuesday: American Gabby Thomas cruised in the 200-meter Olympic final to win her first gold medal.
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Olympic fencing had a big moment in Paris. For the first time ever American women won both individual and team golds in the foil competition. Will this boost a sport that often draws tiny crowds? -
There's still a week's worth of medals to be handed out, as competitions ramp up in track and field, soccer and boxing. The excitement has yet to begin in breaking, Taekwondo and weightlifting. -
American Noah Lyles won gold in the hundred meter sprint by five one thousandths of a second. U.S. swimmers grabbed two gold medals and shattered two world records in the pool.
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In the final Olympic pool swimming race in Paris, U.S. women dominated a relay medley, winning an 8th gold medal for American swimmers and shattering a world record. -
Katie Ledecky has come through again winning her second gold medal in Paris in the women's 800-meter freestyle. The U.S. also won gold and a new world record in a relay race, edging out China. -
Léon Marchand entered the Paris Summer Games with no gold medals. He now has claimed four gold - while shattering four Olympic records - and has emerged as a national French icon. -
At the halfway mark of the Paris Olympics, China is running well ahead of the U.S. and every other country in the gold medals tally. China's success stems from two sports: diving and shooting. -
An international sports tribunal in Switzerland rejected an appeal by Canadian figure skaters and confirmed that the bronze medal would go to Russian athletes from the 2022 Beijing Games.
