Courtney Dorning
Courtney Dorning has been a Senior Editor for NPR's All Things Considered since November 2018. In that role, she's the lead editor for the daily show. Dorning is responsible for newsmaker interviews, lead news segments and the small, quirky features that are a hallmark of the network's flagship afternoon magazine program.
Dorning has been the editor on interviews ranging from former First Lady Michelle Obama, actress and activist Jane Fonda and Speaker of the House. She contributes heavily to All Things Considered's political coverage and has played a key role in the show's coverage of the #MeToo movement. Previously, Dorning was an editor at Morning Edition.
Prior to joining NPR, she spent nearly ten years at ABC News as a researcher and producer. Dorning helped produce town meetings from Israel in 2000 and 2002, and was a key part of Nightline's award-winning coverage of Sept. 11 and the Iraq war.
Dorning lives just outside Washington, D.C., with her husband, three children and a black lab. Having a singleton and twins in 18 months has sharpened the multi-tasking skills and nerves of steel that are essential for editing two hours of daily live programming.
Dorning is a graduate of Saint Mary's College and has a master's degree from Northwestern's Medill School of Journalism.
-
NPR's Mary Louise Kelly talks with Sen. Todd Young and Sen. Tim Kaine about their new bill. Today, 20 years later, the act is still in effect.
-
NPR's Mary Louise Kelly speaks with author Alice Winn about her debut book In Memoriam, a love story following two boarding school classmates fighting for Britain in the trenches of World War I.
-
NPR's Mary Louise Kelly speaks with author Donal Ryan on where the idea for his new book The Queen of Dirt Island came from and how he completed it in 12 weeks.
-
NPR's Ari Shapiro checks in with parents Alex Spektor and Irma Nuñez on the first birthday of their twin boys who were evacuated as newborns from Ukraine in the early days of the war.
-
A government crackdown has successfully scared demonstrators off the streets in most of Iran, but conversations with regular people reveal a simmering frustration with the regime. -
Iran's government has barely given an inch after months of widespread protests. NPR's Mary Louise Kelly asks Ali Vaez, the Iran Project's director at the International Crisis Group, what happens next.
-
Iranians of all political stripes complain of a dead-end economy. Some blame U.S. sanctions while others fault government mismanagement and corruption.
-
Mahsa Amini's death after an alleged violation of Iran's strict dress code sparked months of protests. Now, Tehran's streets are crowded with women with uncovered hair: an act of bravery and dissent.
-
NPR's Juana Summers speaks with Camonghne Felix about her new memoir, Dyscalculia: A Love Story of Epic Miscalculation.
-
NPR's Mary Louise Kelly talks with Iran's foreign minister about free expression, Americans being held prisoner in his country and the future of the Iran nuclear deal.
