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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Friday

Miley Cyrus Jonnie Chambers/Sony Music Entertainment hide caption

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Miley Cyrus reflects on her life and deluxe album 'Something Beautiful'

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Wednesday

Displaced Palestinians move with their belongings southwards on a road in the Nuseirat refugee camp area in the central Gaza Strip following renewed Israeli evacuation orders for Gaza City on September 16, 2025. Eyad Baba/AFP via Getty Images hide caption

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How civilians in Gaza City are surviving the latest Israeli offensive

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Wednesday

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NYC woman sources own engagement ring diamond after 3 weeks of digging in Arkansas

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Thursday

A roadworks crew works in Monterey Park, California on June 24, 2021. Frederic J. Brown/AFP via Getty Images hide caption

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It's so hot and humid, the roads in some places are buckling

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Friday

Large swaths of the U.S. will experience intense heat and humidity in the coming days. Ross D. Franklin/AP hide caption

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How to stay safe and comfortable during the coming heat wave

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Monday

Clownfish swim at the Ocearium in Le Croisic, western France, on December 6, 2016. Loic Venance/AFP via Getty Images hide caption

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Clown fish in Papua New Guinea is shrinking in response to heat stress

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Monday

The Black Knight (John Cleese) blocks King Arthur (Graham Chapman) and his servant Patsy (Terry Gilliam) on their journey to find the Holy Grail in this still from Monty Python and The Holy Grail. Fathom Entertainment hide caption

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A look at the enduring legacy of 'Monty Python and the Holy Grail' as it turns 50

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Tuesday

Mohsen Mahdawi sits for a picture at Northwest State Correctional Facility in St. Albans, Vt. on April 28. Leila Fadel/NPR hide caption

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Mohsen Mahdawi, facing possible deportation, speaks from detention center

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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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