Colin Dwyer
Colin Dwyer covers breaking news for NPR. He reports on a wide array of subjects 鈥� from politics in and the , to the latest developments in and .
Colin began his work with NPR on the Arts Desk, where he and produced stories on arts and culture, then went on to write a daily roundup of news in literature and the publishing industry for the Two-Way blog 鈥� named , naturally.
Later, as a producer for the Digital News desk, he wrote and edited feature news coverage, curated NPR's home page and managed its social media accounts. During his time on the desk, he co-created NPR's live headline contest "Head to Head," with Camila Domonoske, and won the American Copy Editors Society's annual headline-writing prize in 2015.
These days, as a reporter for the News Desk, he writes for NPR.org, reports for the network's on-air newsmagazines, and regularly hosts NPR's daily Facebook Live segment, "Newstime." He has covered , and unfortunate , among many other stories. He also had about shoes once on Invisibilia.
Colin graduated from Georgetown University with a master's degree in English literature.
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These books confront readers with the recent past and distant future, bring them to southeastern Africa and an alternative Japan, and bedeck their pages with subversive cartoons and lush landscapes. -
A number of books out this week 鈥� a tale of tribal politics, a close-focus mystery, measured criticism and a unique relationship 鈥� are tied up in answering the question: How do we define ourselves? -
New on the shelves this week: An obit writer writes 鈥� and drunkenly publishes 鈥� his own obituary. A Hungarian teen stumbles into adulthood. And geriatric sleuth Vera Wong returns. -
This week's new releases include a memoir from Amanda Knox reflecting on her murder case and exoneration, a biography of Yoko Ono, new fiction from Column McCann, and the latest Wicked book Elphie. -
This week brings a number of promising new reads 鈥� but none more eagerly awaited than Sunrise on the Reaping. We offer 5 books to consider picking up. -
Care and Feeding chronicles life in the culinary world. All the Other Mothers Hate Me follows a mom turned amateur detective. Plus, Karen Russell's first full-length novel since Swamplandia! -
At least, that's how it will look to someone craning their head aloft. On the winter solstice, the pair of gas giants will appear closer to each other in the night sky than they have in centuries. -
Army Gen. Gustave Perna told reporters that distribution of the vaccine from Pfizer and BioNTech has begun, with shipment to 636 sites scheduled to begin on Monday. -
The president vowed to "fight on" after the nation's highest court tossed a Texas lawsuit challenging the election results. The reaction from his congressional allies, however, was much more subdued. -
The Trump campaign paid $3 million to get recounts in two heavily Democratic counties in Wisconsin. The effort backfired in Milwaukee County, at least, where Biden expanded his margin of victory. -
Cambridge University Library said Tuesday that two of the naturalist's notebooks have been missing for nearly two decades. Now, the library has told local police that they "have likely been stolen." -
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention updated its recommendations one week before the holiday, advising that Americans be careful amid an explosion in the spread of the coronavirus.
