Coast Community Radio : : Renee Montagne and Steve Inskeep
RENEE MONTAGNE and STEVE INSKEEP
MORNING EDITION, weekdays from 3:00-5:00am and from 8:00-9:00am, on KMUN and KTCB. Weekdays from 5:00-9:00am on KCPB 90.9.
From NPR West, NPR studios in Culver City, Calif., Renée Montagne joins Steve Inskeep in Washington to host NPR’s Morning Edition. She moved into that role in December 2004.
Montagne, the daughter of a Marine Corps family, was born in California and raised in locales as diverse as Hawaii and Arizona. She earned a B.A. in English from the University of California, Berkeley and graduated Phi Beta Kappa. Her career includes serving as a fellow at the University of Southern California with the National Arts Journalism Program (currently based at Columbia University), and teaching broadcast writing at New York University's Graduate Department of Journalism.
Steve Inskeep’s first full-time assignment for NPR was the 1996 presidential primary in New Hampshire. He went on to cover the Pentagon, the U.S. Senate, and the 2000 presidential campaign of George W. Bush.
Raised in Carmel, Indiana, Inskeep is a 1990 graduate of Morehead State University in Kentucky, where he also worked as a radio sportscaster. Inskeep went on to work for public and commercial stations in and around New York City. His journalism has appeared in several publications, including The New York Times.
Inskeep lives in Washington, DC, with his wife Carolee, an author of several reference books on genealogy, and with their daughter Ava, who was born in 2005.