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Up First is National Public Radio's flagship daily morning news podcast, founded in April 2017 to provide substantive 10-15 minute daily news briefings covering the top three or four daily news stories. The podcast publishes daily Monday-Saturday morning at approximately 6 AM Eastern Time with weekend Sunday Up First episodes covering different format. The podcast has accumulated approximately 2,200+ episodes through 2024 with substantial NPR-newsroom integration plus host rotation including Rachel Martin (founding host through 2023), Steve Inskeep (Morning Edition co-host with substantial Up First overlap), A Martínez, Michel Martin, Leila Fadel, plus the broader NPR Morning Edition team.\n\nThe editorial approach combines substantial NPR-newsroom journalism, substantial daily-news-briefing format with three-or-four-stories-per-episode coverage, plus the distinctive NPR-style production-and-narrative-quality. Up First reaches approximately 3-4 million daily listeners as of 2024 making it among the largest morning-news podcast audiences globally. The substantial post-2017 NPR podcast network expansion has integrated Up First with broader NPR-Audio properties including Morning Edition, All Things Considered, the substantial NPR News Now hourly news updates, plus the broader NPR podcast portfolio (How I Built This, Code Switch, Embedded, the substantial broader NPR podcast network).\n\nThe substantial post-2017 NPR podcast medium has expanded substantially with Up First remaining among the principal morning-news-briefing podcast platforms globally with substantial competition from The Daily (NYT covered above) plus the substantial broader morning-news-briefing podcast cluster (BBC Global News Podcast, Today in Focus from The Guardian, plus broader cluster). The substantial post-2020 NPR funding-and-political pressure including substantial post-2024 NPR-and-Trump-administration tensions has affected the broader NPR institutional environment though Up First daily-publication has continued.\n\nFor a globally-mobile professional with daily-news-briefing interests, Up First provides substantive concise daily content with reliable NPR-newsroom-grade editorial-quality. The podcast is freely available across major podcast platforms (with NPR+ paid tier offering ad-free listening and bonus content). Indian-listener engagement is substantial particularly among Indian English-speaking professional audience interested in US-and-international daily-news content.
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