Michele Norris
 All Things Considered: Making a Difference Behind the Microphone
Wednesday, February 21, 2007

Michele Norris, an award-winning journalist with nearly two decades of experience, hosts All Things Considered, public radio's longest-running national program, with Robert Siegel and Melissa Block. Norris began hosting on December 9, 2002. 

Before coming to NPR, Norris was a correspondent for ABC News, a post she held from 1993 - 2002. As a contributing correspondent for the Closer Look segments on World News Tonight with Peter Jennings, Norris reported extensively on education, inner city issues, the nation's drug problem, and poverty. Norris has also reported for the Washington Post, Chicago Tribune, and Los Angeles Times. 

A four-time Pulitzer Prize entrant, Norris has received numerous awards for her work, including the 1989 Livingston Award and both an Emmy Award and Peabody Award for her contribution to the ABC News network’s coverage of the 9/11 terrorist attacks. Norris's Washington Post series on a six-year-old who lived in a crack house was reprinted in the book Ourselves Among Others. 

She attended the University of Wisconsin, where she majored in electrical engineering, and graduated from the University of Minnesota in Minneapolis where she majored in journalism.