Elizabeth Blair, NPR Biography
Senior Producer/Reporter, Arts Information Unit
Elizabeth Blair is a senior producer/reporter in the Arts Information Unit of NPR News. She produces, edits, and reports arts and cultural segments that air on NPR News magazines including Morning Edition and All Things Considered. She is currently gearing up for a new series exploring great American fictional characters that will launch on NPR news magazines in January 2008.
Elizabeth was the lead producer of two other NPR arts series: the Peabody Award-winning NPR 100 and the Gracie Award-winning Present at the Creation. Among the highlights of her career, Blair cites writing and producing documentaries on Aaron Copland, Billie Holiday, and the Peabody Award-winning "I Must Keep Fightin': The Art of Paul Robeson." As a reporter, Elizabeth has profiled India.Arie, Macy Gray, Cesaria Evora, the band Pearl Jam, the late Eva Cassidy, and Tori Amos.
She has reported on a range of issues, from arts education and funding to the impact of global trade on the American textile industry. For three and a half years Elizabeth lived and worked in Paris, France, where she produced Le Jazz Club From Paris With De Dee Bridgewater and the monthly magazine Postcard From Paris. She was the arts reporter at WHYY-FM in Philadelphia where she won a 1997 Gabriel Award and regional awards from the RTNDA and Society of Professional Journalists (SPJ).
