Sam Sanders is an American journalist and radio presenter. He is the former host of NPR's ''It's Been a Minute'', a weekly podcast and nationally broadcast radio program.

Career

Sanders attended the

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and the

Harvard Kennedy School The Harvard Kennedy School (HKS), officially the John F. Kennedy School of Government, is the school of public policy and government of Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts. The school offers master's degrees in public policy, public ...

. He joined NPR in 2009 as field producer and breaking news reporter. In 2015 he joined NPR's Election unit where he covered the Bernie Sanders 2016 presidential campaign and was one of the founding co-hosts of the ''NPR Politics Podcast''. In 2017, he created and hosted a pop culture podcast and radio show at NPR, ''It’s Been a Minute.'' After 12 years, Sanders left NPR in 2022 and joined

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where he hosts a pop culture podcast called ''Into It''. In August 2022, Sanders launched a podcast with Sirius XM's

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called ''Vibe Check'', focussing on "news and culture from a Black and queer perspective." The podcast is co-hosted by Sanders,

Zach Stafford Zach Stafford is a journalist and the former editor-in-chief of '' The Advocate'' magazine. He is currently a columnist at MSNBC. Stafford won a Tony Award in 2022 as one of the co-producers of ''A Strange Loop''. Early life and education Sta ...

, and

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Personal

Sanders grew up in

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. He is gay and has a partner.

References

External links

''It's Been a Minute with Sam Sanders''
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