Sami Yenigun
Sami Yenigun is the Executive Producer of NPR's All Things Considered and the Consider This podcast. Yenigun works with hosts, editors, and producers to plan and execute the editorial vision of NPR's flagship afternoon newsmagazine and evening podcast. He comes to this role after serving as a Supervising Editor on All Things Considered, where he helped launch Consider This and oversaw the growth of the newsmagazine on new platforms.
Prior to joining All Things Considered, Yenigun edited NPR's Code Switch podcast, worked as a field producer for the Education Desk, and was deployed in various breaking news assignments for the network. In 2014, he was part of a team that won a Peabody Award for it's coverage of the Ebola outbreak in West Africa, and in 2017, was on a team of Education reporters that won an NPR Murrow award for innovation.
Yenigun began at NPR in 2010 as a digital intern for NPR Music. He later joined NPR's Cultural Desk where he learned to produce and report for audio.
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Bruising basslines, staccato synths and rave-worthy rhythms: It's our five favorite electronic dance tracks of the last month. -
All Songs Considered's favorite electronic jams from February include a legit underground anthem, African field recordings, and yet another promising producer from Detroit. -
Recommended Dose is a round-up of some of the best new electronic dance songs. Our inaugural installment includes music from Disclosure, Detroit legends Theo Parrish and Moodymann and more. -
At our desks, in nightclubs, and over bedroom speaker systems, these are the tracks that made us move. -
By leaking details of its new release through codes and numbers, the Scottish electronic duo worked the press game backwards. -
Every weekend, movies compete to be No. 1 at the box office. But a No. 1 ranking means less about whether a movie will be profitable — and more about a fleeting cultural moment. -
A sampler of the many genres — garage, techno, house and bass music — that made a mark (and made us want to move) in 2012.
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The British producer, who has been obsessed with Jamaican dub music since he was a teenager in the '70s, has forged a career of working with his idols and extending their influence to other genres. -
One of the original dubstep producers has a new album that incorporates sounds recorded during a trip to Cuba. -
The video game franchise is the largest of its kind in all of North America. Its success comes thanks to the complicated team effort of a few interested parties: the NFL, the software company that makes the game, and ESPN.
