Steve Inskeep

Steve Inskeep
Inskeep at the 2011 Texas Book Festival.
Born	(1968-06-16) June 16, 1968 (age 48)
Show	Morning Edition
Network	NPR
Previous show(s)	All Things Considered

Steve Inskeep (/ˈɪnskiːp/; born June 16, 1968) is one of the current hosts of Morning Edition on National Public Radio. He and Renée Montagne were assigned as interim hosts to succeed Bob Edwards after NPR reassigned Edwards to Senior Correspondent on April 30, 2004. Inskeep and Montagne were named permanent hosts of Morning Edition in December 2004. His current co-hosts are David Greene, who became a third co-host in 2012, and Rachel Martin, who joined when Montagne stepped down in November 2016. Prior to being host of Morning Edition, Inskeep was NPR's transportation correspondent and the host of Weekend All Things Considered.

Inskeep is the author of Instant City: Life and Death in Karachi, published in October 2011. The book examines the changes associated with the dramatic growth of Karachi, Pakistan, in the second half of the twentieth century. Inskeep has made several trips to Pakistan in his role at NPR.

Inskeep was raised in Carmel, Indiana, and graduated from Morehead State University in Morehead, Kentucky in 1990. His first professional experience in radio was a stint as a sportscaster at WMKY-FM in Morehead. Inskeep was hired by NPR in 1996. His first full-time assignment was the 1996 presidential primary in New Hampshire.

Inskeep and his wife, Carolee, have a daughter, Ava, who was born in 2005. In 2012 the Inskeeps traveled to China and adopted Ana Xiao as their second child. Steve Inskeep himself was also raised as an adopted child.