Cokie Roberts Senior News Analyst. Bob Edwards Host, Morning Edition. Scott Simon Host, Weekend Edition. Nina Totenberg Legal Affairs Correspondent. Susan Stamberg Legal Affairs Correspondent. Ray Suarez Host, Talk of the Nation. Ann Taylor Newscaster. Corey Flintoff Newscaster. Sylvia Poggioli Foreign Correspondent. Daniel Schorr Senior News Analyst. Alex Chadwick Correspondent, Morning Edition. Vertamae Grosvenor Correspondent, Cultural Desk. Carl Kasell Newscaster, Morning Edition.
Of course, hearing a string of uniformly, gorgeously unusual names one after the other can have a different effect. Finally, he wrote a song about it. A turtle named Ira Glass lives in Queens, and somewhere out there roams a chihuahua named Mandalit. Kai Ryssdal had, at one point, a namesake goat. A man was once sitting in a Missouri theater next to a woman named Korva Coleman, and he thought she was the NPR reporter. She had just changed her name to Korva Coleman because she thought it sounded cool.
Sylvia has had a cow in Cambodia named after her, and a restaurant in Salem, Oregon. Others just like that cozy round way she pronounces her name.
Italian Americans write in to say that hearing Sylvia pronounce her name correctly inspired them to do the same. But could even Sylvia's name be improved? Some names are just family names. Cokie was just easier for her brother to pronounce.
Coleman, but your first name And because they are with us in our most private moments—alone in the car, half-asleep in bed—we start to think we know them. And some listeners feel they know the reporters a little too intimately.
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