Natalie Escobar
Natalie Escobar is an editor on NPR's Newshub team, where she edits breaking news. Previously, she was an associate editor on the Culture desk, where she helped produce "Books We Love." And before then, she was an assistant editor on the Code Switch team, where she edited the blog and newsletter, ran the social media accounts and led audience engagement. Before coming to NPR in 2020, Escobar was an assistant editor and editorial fellow at The Atlantic. She graduated from Northwestern University's Medill School of Journalism with a degree in magazine journalism and Latino studies.
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In this installment of NPR's Word of the Week, we go to camp: from 16th-century military lodgings to the wilderness adventures of the 1880s designed to turn boys into "manly men." -
The three high-school birders, dubbed The Pete Dunnelins, have one day to count as many bird species across the state of New Jersey as physically possible. Here's what it takes. -
Today, people consider "Yule" synonymous with "Christmas." But centuries ago, Yule meant something different — a pagan mid-winter festival, dating back to pre-Christian Germanic people. -
Much of the turkey's early history is shrouded in uncertainty, historians and etymologists say — which is particularly true of how the bird got its name. -
Your input will help shape a new NPR series on renting, homeownership and everything that comes with it. -
Scientists have recently mapped the painted lady butterfly's annual flight from equatorial Africa to northern Europe and back, the world's longest butterfly migration. In Constant Bloom, photographer Lucas Foglia documents the journey. -
Worsening wildfires are hiking up home insurance rates in California, the biggest market in the U.S. And as climate disasters increase across the country, other states are feeling the pressure too. -
Whether we were paying attention or not, 2024 was filled with good news. In case you weren't, NPR's member stations have been keeping track. Here are some of the stories that made us smile this year. -
At least three people, including the suspect, are dead after a shooting at a Wisconsin grade school. Police talked to the family of the suspect and searched her home, but have no motive yet. -
AFP photographer Jerome Brouillet captured the Brazilian world champion Gabriel Medina surfing through a huge wave in a ride that would net an Olympic-record score.
