Shay Stevens
Newscaster
NPR Newscaster Shay Stevens began her radio career in Sioux City, Iowa. Over the course of her professional life in the media, she has worked in various formats, including Top 40, Middle of the Road, Country/Western, R&B/Urban, news/talk, and all-news.
Following a brief stint in Iowa, she worked in Philadelphia as an anchor/reporter at WHAT AM. She went on to become city hall reporter/anchor, assignment editor, and entertainment editor for WFIL AM; anchor for WUSL FM; anchor/reporter for WCAU AM, where she also occasionally fed stories to CBS; and anchor for WWDB, occasionally feeding reports to UPI and ABC.
She later worked as an anchor/reporter for WILM in Wilmington, DE, and for public station WEBR in Buffalo.
Stevens joined NPR in 1990 as a part-time newscaster for the weekend version of All Things Considered, while working fulltime as a news director for WCBM in Baltimore, and later as an anchor/reporter for USA Today Sky Radio. She has also done freelance work for commercial news station WTOP in Washington, DC, and for CNN.
She earned a BA in journalism from American University.
