Joel Rose
Joel Rose is a correspondent on NPR's National Desk. As the network's transportation correspondent since 2023, Rose's reporting focuses on roadway and pedestrian safety, an air travel system under stress and how emerging technologies are changing the ways we get around.
In his previous assignment on the immigration beat, Rose was part of an NPR team that was a finalist for the duPont-Columbia Award for reporting on the Trump administration's "Remain in Mexico" policy. He traveled to Arizona to investigate how fentanyl is smuggled through legal ports of entry at the southern border, and to Honduras to report on how climate change is reshaping migration.
Rose joined NPR in 2011 as a general assignment reporter in New York City. He's interviewed grieving parents after the mass shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School, asylum-seekers fleeing from violence and poverty in Central and South America and a long list of musicians including Solomon Burke, Tom Waits, Sixto Rodriguez, Mary Halvorson and Arcade Fire.
Breaking news coverage has taken him across the country: from the mass shooting at Emanuel AME Church in South Carolina, to major hurricanes in Florida, Louisiana, New York and North Carolina, and protests after the deaths of Trayvon Martin and Eric Garner.
Rose has collaborated with NPR's Planet Money, Consider This and Up First podcasts, and contributed to NPR's Peabody Award-winning coverage of the Ebola outbreak in 2014.
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NPR's Joel Rose speaks with Lindsay Owens, president of the economic think tank Groundwork Collaborative, about how companies using data to transform the products and prices customers see.
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Madi Bolanos and Anna Sussman's new podcast We Are Jane Doe, by KQED and Snap Studios, investigates rampant sex abuse at the Central California Women's Facility in Chowchilla, Ca.
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NPR producers and film buffs Marc Rivers and Kathryn Fink reflect on when a film they showed their significant others didn't go over so well.
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NPR's Joel Rose speaks with Ukrainian Minister of Parliament, Oleksandr Merezhko, about the U.S.'s diesel deal with Russia will impact Ukraine.
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Saxophonist and composer Immanuel Wilkins talks about the impact that winning a 2026 MacArthur Fellowship will have on his art.
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How NPR's team covering AI covers their increasingly important and fast moving beat.
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NPR's Joel Rose speaks with culture writer Louis Staples about his piece for Harper's Bazaar titled: Women Everywhere Are Talking About Cornell. Why Aren't Men?
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The Trump administration has been hostile to federal spending on bicycle and pedestrian infrastructure. But there's bipartisan support for a multiuse trail that would connect Ohio and West Virginia. -
The FAA's ambitious overhaul of the air traffic control system comes amid rising public anxiety about AI. The CEO of the company that's building the software explains how it works. -
The Federal Aviation Administration launched an ambitious $875 million push to make the U.S. airspace more efficient. But critics say it won't solve bigger problems with air traffic control.
