Lulu Garcia-Navarro

Lulu Garcia-Navarro
Garcia-Navarro at the Peabody Awards in 2012
Born
London, England
EducationGeorgetown University (BS)
City, University of London (MA)
OccupationJournalist
Years active1999–present
SpouseJames Hider

Lourdes "Lulu" Garcia-Navarro is an American journalist who is an Opinion Audio podcast host for The New York Times. She was the host of National Public Radio's Weekend Edition Sunday from 2017 to 2021, when she left NPR after 17 years at the network.

Garcia-Navarro was previously a foreign correspondent and served as NPR's bureau chief in Mexico City, Baghdad, and Jerusalem, and opened the bureau in Rio de Janeiro. Her coverage of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and dispatches of the Arab Spring uprisings brought Garcia-Navarro multiple awards in 2012, including the Edward R. Murrow and Peabody Awards for her coverage of the Libyan revolt.[1][2] Her series on the Amazon rainforest was a Peabody finalist and won an Edward R. Murrow award for best news series.[3]

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  3. ^ "The Corporation for Public Broadcasting Honors NPR's Lourdes Garcia-Navarro with the Edward R. Murrow Award". Corporation for Public Broadcasting.

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