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Tamar Charney

Interim Managing Editor, NPR One
I’m one of those people who is perfectly content to sit alone in a restaurant, observing the people around me. It’s no surprise I became a journalist because I enjoying wondering what other people's lives are about.I’ve been a public radio jack of all trades — DJ, newscaster, arts reporter, talk show producer, and for almost a decade I ran Michigan Radio’s on-air, online, and news strategy and operations. Currently, I'm the managing editor for NPR One, which is a new way to listen to public radio news and podcasts from stations, networks like PRI, and producers you've never heard of before, but will love!Fun fact: I’ve done voiceovers for funeral homes, truck engine repair training modules and even a cartoon hepatitis virus — yes, you read that right.I grew up in Nashville, Tennessee, before the city was full of hipsters, moved to Michigan for school and I stay here because I fell in love with snow, the Great Lakes, and the stories there are to tell about this area.
"Selfie"
Arts
We want politicians to be consistent and ‘authentic’ but we, ourselves, ‘contain multitudes.’ Even our iPhones know that.
A "little house on the prairie" on the coffee table
Arts
The game of life starts with childhood toys
Stranger Things
Culture
Her muse isn’t elusive. It’s intrusive. And precious.
Listening to music you don't understand
Culture
The joy of listening to music you don’t understand
Grabbing the car keys
Belief
Lost your car keys? Earrings? Here’s an explanation.
Main Streets look all the same
Development
Why are more and more Main Streets looking more alike?
Finding home up in the air
Technology
From 35,000 feet up, ‘a way to trick a homesick brain to where our hearts are’
The joys of an Icelandic keyboard? The Viking tales and the musician Bjork, here accepting her artist of the year award at the Webby Awards in New York in 2012.
Culture
Emojis? I prefer my Icelandic keyboard.
Tamar Charney's Rolodex.
Media
What’s a Rolodex? And should she keep it?
Construction is seen on a new housing development along the riverfront in Detroit, Michigan, December 9, 2015. A year after the city exited the biggest-ever US municipal bankruptcy, a plan to demolish half of its nearly 80,000 blighted or deteriorating st
Development
Detroit still has its scars — but there are signs showing a city on the mend
What's privacy anymore?
Conflict
I don’t want to watch. It’s an invasion of privacy. But I do.
Warding off the evil spirits
Belief
Boo! Are you afraid of the haints?
Jihadi brides
Conflict
Why my fascination with ‘jihadi brides’ hits close to home
Tamar Charney
Culture
What we learn from the money we touch
A NASA image of Mercury
Culture
Why I fell in love with maps
A woman looks at her cellphone
Culture
Are you sick of people’s ‘perfect’ social media lives? We are, too.
Iceland's Blue Lagoon.
Lifestyle
Dreaming of Iceland — and its big supermarket
Maria Alyokhina (L) and Nadezhda Tolokonnikova, members of the punk collective Pussy Riot, listen to a question from the audience during a forum at Harvard's Kennedy School of Government, a few days before they made an appearance in Ann Arbor, MI.
Culture
Why I love Pussy Riot’s anger
Mountain view in Iceland
Music
Take a drive across Iceland, in music and photos
Tamar Charney's view from her window in Venezuela
Development & Education
I had to see poverty abroad before I could see it at home
Lac-Mégantic almost eight months after a train derailed and exploded in the middle of the town.
Business, Economics and Jobs
A Michigan journalist finds echoes of Detroit in a shattered Canadian town