Sami Yenigun
Sami Yenigun is the Executive Producer of NPR's All Things Considered and the Consider This podcast. Yenigun works with hosts, editors, and producers to plan and execute the editorial vision of NPR's flagship afternoon newsmagazine and evening podcast. He comes to this role after serving as a Supervising Editor on All Things Considered, where he helped launch Consider This and oversaw the growth of the newsmagazine on new platforms.
Prior to joining All Things Considered, Yenigun edited NPR's Code Switch podcast, worked as a field producer for the Education Desk, and was deployed in various breaking news assignments for the network. In 2014, he was part of a team that won a Peabody Award for it's coverage of the Ebola outbreak in West Africa, and in 2017, was on a team of Education reporters that won an NPR Murrow award for innovation.
Yenigun began at NPR in 2010 as a digital intern for NPR Music. He later joined NPR's Cultural Desk where he learned to produce and report for audio.
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This month's selections include a youngster from Montreal, a veteran from Chicago, warehouse techno from Paris, a visionary from England, and footwork from Michael Jackson's hometown of Gary, Indiana. -
An NPR producer found out firsthand what happens when a returnee from Liberia registers a temperature and must contact the U.S. health bureaucracy. -
Outside St. Joseph's Catholic Hospital in Liberia, Dr. Senga Omeonga muses over the weeks he spent at an Ebola ward — not as a doctor, but as a patient. He says the experience was life-changing. -
Our last monthly roundup of the year includes new music from Theo Parrish, Kim Ann Foxman, Romare, Helena Hauff, Afrikan Sciences, and Frank & Tony. -
Maybe it was Halloween, or maybe it was the tidal wave of pumpkin spice advertisements. Either way, this month's Recommended Dose electronic music mix turned out darker and more aggressive than usual. -
The final weeks of summer brought us new music from two of the biggest names in dance music, the return of post-rock, and a remix of Black Box's "Everybody Everybody." -
It's the end of the month, which means it's time for the best of the month, including new music from Kyle Hall, Tessela, Cassy and more. -
New music from Four Tet, Prince-inspired funk, and sinister techno: It's All Songs Considered's monthly mix of our favorite new electronic jams. -
A Pew Study finds that the milliennial generation has a low level of social trust. There are several possible causes for this distrust, including a skewed social media culture and a faltering economy.
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All Songs Considered's favorite electronic jams from February include a legit underground anthem, African field recordings, and yet another promising producer from Detroit.
