Arun Rath to Host ''Weekend All Things Considered''

RADIO ONLINE | Thursday, July 11, 2013 | 2:29pm CT

Journalist Arun Rath will become the new host of the NPR newsmagazine "Weekend All Things Considered" beginning in late September, when the Saturday and Sunday edition moves its broadcast to the West Coast. Rath has had a distinguished career in public media as a reporter, producer and editor, most recently as a senior reporter for the PBS series "Frontline" and "The World" on WGBH Boston. He's also worked for several NPR and public radio programs.

"Weekend All Things Considered manages to cover the full range of human experience in an hour," said Rath. "It's hard work but the payoff is amazing. I'm especially excited to join the show as it reinvents itself at NPR West. The intense diversity of Los Angeles is invigorating -- all the racial, economic and political diversity smashed together -- it's what's best and most exciting about America."

Rath began his journalism career as an NPR intern at "Talk of the Nation," eventually joining the staff and becoming the show's director after working on several NPR News programs during the 1990s. In 2000, he became senior producer for NPR's "On the Media," produced by WNYC, where he was part of a team that won a Peabody Award. He spent 2005 as senior editor at the culture and arts show Studio 360 from PRI and WNYC. Rath moved to television in 2005 to report and manage radio partnerships for "Frontline." He also reports on culture and music for the PBS series "Sound Tracks."

"Arun has that rare constellation of skills that will make him a first-class host," says NPR News Senior VP Margaret Low Smith. "He has editorial depth and range. He is relentlessly curious. Plus he is wonderful on the air. The audience will love spending weekend afternoons with him."