Rebecca Boggs Roberts (born 1970) is the Curator of Programming at

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, and was formerly an American journalist. She was one of the hosts of POTUS '08 on XM Radio, which offered live daily coverage of the 2008 presidential election. She served as a substitute host for '' Morning Edition'', '' Talk of the Nation'', and '' Weekend Edition Sunday'' on National Public Radio. National Public Radio
Rebecca Roberts Biography
Retrieved 1/5/10.

Biography

Born to reporters Cokie (née Boggs) and Steve Roberts, Roberts earned a B.A. in political science from Princeton University. Roberts began with Shorr & Associates, a political media firm in Philadelphia. She was technology reporter for The World, a radio program produced by the BBC and

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, for four years. She hosted ''Your Call'', a local call-in program, on KALW in San Francisco and moved to Washington, DC to host ''

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'', a news talk show, on WETA from 2006-07. For NPR, she has reported on such diverse topics as the

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, transgenic goats, amateur astronomers, Bikram yoga, and Icelandic geysers. She served as Program Director of the Congressional Cemetery.

Works

Roberts' books include: * * *

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References

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