Barrie Hardymon Barrie Hardymon is the senior editor for NPR's Investigations team.
Barrie Hardymon, photographed for NPR, 27 July 2019, in Washington DC.
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Barrie Hardymon, photographed for NPR, 27 July 2019, in Washington DC.
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Barrie Hardymon

Senior Editor, Investigations

Barrie Hardymon is the senior editor for NPR's Investigations team. In 2020 she was the editorial lead for election coverage and ran NPR's pop-up talk show during the early days of the coronavirus called The National Conversation from All Things Considered. Before that she was senior editor at NPR's Weekend Edition, and the lead editor for books. You can hear Hardymon on the radio talking about everything from Middlemarch to middle-grade novels, and she's also a frequent panelist on NPR's podcasts It's Been A Minute and Pop Culture Happy Hour. She went to Juilliard to study viola, ended up a cashier at the Strand and finally got a degree from Johns Hopkins' Writing Seminars, which qualified her solely for work in public radio. She lives and reads in Washington, D.C.

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When filmmakers and actors go against the grain, does it work?

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What books to read this summer? NPR staff share their favorite recommendations

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Saturday

Is Tom Cruise the essential movie star?

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In Yiyun Li's book about her son, she overcomes the impossible

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Friday

Fact check: The book's always better than the movie

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Sunday

A cure for winter doldrums? Making the most of cozy season

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Sunday

Sweet Valley High's spiritual successors: reading recommendations for teen girls

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Tuesday

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Left: A photo provided by Alabama Department of Corrections shows inmate Kenneth Eugene Smith, who was convicted in a 1988 murder-for-hire slaying of a preacher's wife. Right: Alabama's lethal injection chamber at Holman Correctional Facility in Atmore, Ala., seen in 2002. Alabama Department of Corrections via AP and AP hide caption

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Alabama executes man by nitrogen gas for the first time in the U.S.

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Rachel McAdams as Barbara and Abby Ryder Fortson as Margaret in Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret. Dana Hawley/Lionsgate hide caption

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Nadia (center) prays at the grave of her son Oleg Kunynets, a Ukrainian military serviceman who was killed in the east of the country, during his funeral in Lviv, Ukraine, on Feb. 7. Emilio Morenatti/AP hide caption

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How Russia's war galvanized Ukraine and still threatens the world order

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Tuesday

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Blinken has a lot on his plate including tensions with China and the war in Ukraine

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