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Journalist Arun Rath is the new host of the NPR newsmagazine Weekend All Things Considered. The Saturday and Sunday edition has moved its broadcast to the west coast. Rath has had a distinguished career in public media as a reporter, producer and editor, most recently as a senior reporter for the PBS series Frontline and The World® on WGBH Boston. He has also worked for several NPR and public radio programs.

LaToya Dennis joined WUWM in October 2006 as a reporter / producer. LaToya began her career in public radio as a part-time reporter for WKAR AM/FM in East Lansing, Michigan. She worked as general assignment reporter for WKAR for one and a half years while working toward a master's degree in Journalism from Michigan State University. While at WKAR, she covered General Motors plant closings, city and state government, and education among other critical subjects.

Elana Gordon covers the health beat at KCUR. She was previously a production assistant for KCURâ

Ella Taylor is a freelance film critic, book reviewer and feature writer living in Los Angeles.

Michelle Trudeau began her radio career in 1981, filing stories for NPR from Beijing and Shanghai, China, where she and her husband lived for two years. She began working as a science reporter and producer for NPR's Science Desk since 1982. Trudeau's news reports and feature stories, which cover the areas of human behavior, child development, the brain sciences, and mental health, air on NPR's Morning Edition and All Things Considered.

Dan grew up in Detroit during Motown’s heyday, played keyboards in bands with friends, and snuck off to see live music at the Grande Ballroom whenever he could. He was thrown out of Baker’s Keyboard Lounge on several occasions for being underage in the famous jazz bar, but managed to hear several of his Blue Note idols from the 1960s.Dan is not new to public radio having worked at WKAR AM/FM in East Lansing, Michigan from 1970 to 1979 as a producer/announcer and operations manager. He left radio to pursue entrepreneurial ventures, then returned to studies at Michigan State University to earn an MBA and a PhD. While in grad school he continued to play keyboards in bands and was co-owner of a record label that distributed music of local artists to record stores throughout Michigan.An academic career brought him to San Francisco State University where he taught in the Department of Marketing until retiring in 2006. On retiring, he decided to learn to play guitar (a lifelong ambition), trading in all his keyboard gear for guitars. He studied for three years with noted guitarist Gary Yamane in Taos, New Mexico before moving to San Luis Obispo in 2015. He considers himself a “marginally competent” jazz player.Dan has eclectic interests in music. He produced and engineered a folk music duo’s album, a couple of CDs for a prolific singer/songwriter, and co-produced an EP for an electronic dance trio back in the 1980s. His music listening these days is mostly jazz, with a special love for guitar and vocal music. He also dives deep into progressive rock and related music of the late '60s and early '70s on his nationally distributed radio show Audio Aftermath, available on PRX.He lives in Portland, Oregon with his husband Joe, their two big goofy dogs Arlo and Alice, and two grandpa cat brothers Boomer and Mickey.