Greg Allen, NPR Biography
Correspondent, Miami
As NPR's Miami correspondent, Greg Allen reports on the diverse issues and developments tied to the Southeast. He covers everything from breaking news to economic and political stories to arts and human interest features. He moved into this role in 2006, after four years as NPR's Midwest correspondent.
Greg Allen has spent more than two decades in radio news, the first ten as a reporter in Ohio and Philadelphia and the last as an editor, producer, and reporter at NPR.
Before moving into reporting, Allen served as the executive producer of NPR's national daily live call-in show, Talk of the Nation. As executive producer he handled the day-to-day operations of the program as well as developed and produced remote broadcasts with live audiences and special breaking news coverage. He was with Talk of the Nation from January 2000 - January 2002.
From 1997 - 2000, Allen was senior editor for NPR's Morning Edition and developed stories and interviews, shaped the program's editorial direction, and supervised the program's staff. He served as an editor with Morning Edition from 1993 - 1997 and before that was Morning Edition's swing editor, providing editorial and production supervision in the early morning hours. From June 1992-September 1992 Allen was editor of NPR's National Desk.
Before coming to NPR, Allen was a reporter with NPR member station WHYY-FM in Philadelphia from 1987-1990.
His radio career includes serving as the producer of Freedom's Doors Media Project — five radio documentaries on immigration in American cities that was distributed through NPR's Horizons series — frequent freelance work with NPR, Monitor Radio, Voice of America, and WHYY-FM, and work as a reporter/producer of NPR member station WYSO-FM in Yellow Springs, Ohio.
Allen graduated from the University of Pennsylvania in 1977, with a B.A. cum laude. As a student and after graduation, Allen worked at WXPN-FM, the public radio station on campus, as a host and producer for a weekly folk music program that included interviews, features, live and recorded music.
