Bob Edwards

BOB EDWARDS was a broadcast journalist who hosted NPR’s Morning Edition for nearly 25 years. His books include Edward R. Murrow and the Birth of Broadcast Journalism and Fridays with Red.

Edwards won the George Foster Peabody Award, the duPont-Columbia Award for radio journalism, and the Edward R. Murrow Award from the Corporation for Public Broadcasting. He was inducted into the National Radio Hall of Fame in November 2004.

Edwards earned a B.S. from the University of Louisville and a master’s degree from American University in Washington, D.C. He joined NPR in 1974, co-hosting All Things Considered before launching Morning Edition in 1979. After leaving NPR in 2004, he hosted programs on Sirius XM Radio.

Bob Edwards’s books are published by Trade Paper Press, an imprint of Turner Publishing.

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