Neal Conan

Talk of the Nation

Award-winning journalist Neal Conan is the host of Talk of the Nation, the national news-talk call-in show from NPR News. Conan brings 25 years of journalism experience to his work. Conan recently served as acting senior editor on the foreign desk, and as interim host of Morning Edition and Weekend Edition on Saturdays.

When he was NPRs defense correspondent during a 1991 assignment in the Middle East, Conan was one of three dozen journalists held hostage in Iraq by the Republican Guard. Conan was part of the NPR team that won a prestigious 1992 Alfred I. duPont-Columbia University Award for coverage of the Gulf War. Conan's other awards include an Armstrong Award and two Citations of Excellence from the Overseas Press Club. During his tenure as producer and executive producer of All Things Considered, the show won numerous awards. Conan was born in Beirut, Lebanon.