Kaity Kline Kaity Kline is an Assistant Producer at Morning Edition and Up First.
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Kaity Kline

Kaity Kline

Assistant Producer, Morning Edition and Up First

Kaity Kline is an Assistant Producer at Morning Edition and Up First. She started at NPR in 2019 as a Here & Now intern and has worked at nearly every NPR news magazine show since.

Kline is from New Jersey and graduated from Mercer County Community College in 2016 and Rowan University in 2019.

While at Rowan Radio, Kline was a one-man band for a talk show that won a Gracie Award for best student talk show. She also hosted a late-night rock and metal show. In her free time she yells at reality TV shows, plays video games, and plays guitar.

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Wednesday

Bear Michal sleeps on the ground at Bear Sanctuary Müritz in Germany in May 2015. FOUR PAWS/FOUR PAWS hide caption

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March Madness is underway. So is March Napness, the tournament for hibernating bears

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Monday

Spring cleaning season is here. Cleaning experts say some of the dirtiest spots in your home are the ones you forget to clean. Carol Yepes/Getty Images hide caption

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The spring season is here — a good excuse to clean around the house

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Thursday

Student protesters gather inside their encampment on the Columbia University campus in New York on April 29, 2024. Stefan Jeremiah/AP hide caption

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Weaponizing antisemitism makes students 'less safe,' says drafter of definition

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Thursday

Several students, faculty and staff who participated in the February 10 African American Read-In event held at the University of Louisville. Marvin Young/National Council of Teachers of English hide caption

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African American Read-Ins have become a Black History Month tradition nationwide

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Friday

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K-pop star Rosé discusses finding her own voice and her first solo album

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Wednesday

"The Legend of Zelda: Echoes of Wisdom" casts Zelda in the starring role. Nintendo hide caption

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Zelda is her own hero in the series' latest: 'The Legend of Zelda: Echoes of Wisdom'

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Friday

circa 1930: Members of Friday The Thirteenth Club walk under a ladder in single file at a meeting on the outskirts of Paris. The club meets every Friday 13th to do everything that superstitious people traditionally avoid. Hulton Archive/Keystone/Getty Images hide caption

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Beware: It's Friday the 13th. Don't say we didn't warn you

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Thursday

A Health Care Worker seals a coronavirus swab after testing at the Pro Health Urgent Care coronavirus testing site on April 30, 2020 in Wantagh, New York. Al Bello/Getty Images North America hide caption

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New variants contribute to COVID surge. What's the latest guidance?

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Monday

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Some call brutalist architecture ugly or chunky. Others call it creative

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Some call brutalist architecture ugly or chunky. Others call it creative

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Tuesday

The cauldron, with the Olympic flame lit, lifts off while attached to a balloon as the torchbearers French former sprinter Marie-Jose Perec and French judoka Teddy Riner stand in front during the opening ceremony of the Paris 2024 Olympic Games at the Jardin des Tuileries in Paris on July 26, 2024. MOHD RASFAN/AFP via Getty Images hide caption

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The cauldron of fire in Paris is more eco friendly clouds of mist and beams of light

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Tuesday

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System of a Down's Serj Tankian on his memoir, why a new album hasn't come since 2005

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Monday

New Jersey is known as the diner capital of the world. But over the past decade, around 150 diners have closed in the state. The ones that remain have made big changes to survive. Peter Sedereas hide caption

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New Jersey diners adapt to survive in state dubbed 'diner capital of the world'

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Thursday

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A growing number of gamers are LGBTQ+, so why is representation still lacking?

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Tuesday

Questions are raised about how video games represent the LGBTQ community

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Wednesday

The International Space Station is pictured from the SpaceX Crew Dragon Endeavour during a fly around of the orbiting lab on Nov. 8, 2021. NASA hide caption

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The International Space Station retires soon. NASA won't run its future replacement.

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Wednesday

What space stations of the future could look like

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Wednesday

Mohammed AbuSafia came to the U.S. in July for a two-month medical program at the Cleveland Clinic, but he was stranded in the U.S. by the war in Gaza. At least 39 of his relatives have since been killed. Mohammed AbuSafia hide caption

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Palestinians in Chicago mourn loss of family in Gaza

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Ahmed Alnaouq is a journalist in London and the founder of the group We Are Not Numbers. Alnaouq lost more than 20 members of his own family on October 22 when a missile hit his home in southern Gaza. Ahmed Alnaouq hide caption

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Gazan journalist says over 20 members of his family were killed in airstrike

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Tuesday

Children go trick-or-treating on Oct. 31, 2022, in Houston. Brandon Bell/Getty Images hide caption

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Why the urban legend of contaminated Halloween candy won't disappear

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Wednesday

A cosplayer dressed as a boxed Barbie doll attends the MCM Comic Con at ExCeL exhibition centre in London on May 26, 2023. Henry Nicholls/AFP via Getty Images hide caption

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It's a pink Halloween. Here are some of the most popular costumes of 2023

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Thursday

Lexi Montgomery poses with supplies she has purchased in the event of another storm in September 2017 in Miami Beach, Fla. Hurricane Irma was the first hurricane that Montgomery ever experienced. Alan Diaz/AP hide caption

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Friday

Rhiannon Giddens performs at 'A New York Evening With Rhiannon Giddens' at National Sawdust on August 17, 2023 in New York City. In this interview with NPR's Michel Martin, she reflects on her new album and more. Rob Kim/Getty Images for The Recording A hide caption

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Rhiannon Giddens is searching for a 'little bit of joy to bounce into'

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Wednesday

Virginia Johnson, 73, the outgoing artistic director of Dance Theatre of Harlem poses in one of the company's ballet studios at 466 West 152nd street in New York City, N.Y. on Thursday, June 22, 2023. She joined the company in 1969 as a founding member and prima ballerina, returning to it as the Artistic Director from 2009-2023. Nicky Qumaina-Woo for NPR hide caption

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Virginia Johnson on her time at Dance Theatre of Harlem: 'It was love'

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