Ken Rudin

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Ken Rudin is NPR's political editor, and is involved with any political news on a variety of NPR programs. Rudin also cohosts a segment called The Political Junkie on the NPR program Talk of the Nation and writes a column of the same name for npr.org^[1].

1 Childhood
2 Trivia
3 External links
4 References

[edit] Childhood

Rudin was born November 13, 1950. Rudin grew up in New York City and in Upstate New York^[2]. His early childhood was spent in The Bronx where he lived only a few blocks away from Yankee Stadium. He moved to New Jersey as an adolescent but remains a die hard Yankees fan.

[edit] Trivia

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During the 1960s, Rudin began collecting campaign buttons, he now has a collection of more 70,000 campaign items^[3]. Ken is also a crazed music lover who has been making mixtapes since 1975. ^[4] These tapes will have anything on them from CBS Radio election coverage, to The Beach Boys, to Phil "Scooter" Rizzuto, to Sufjan Stevens, to Lou Dobbs, to Buffalo Springfield and pretty much anything and everything in between. He was Color War General at Camp Lokanda in 1974 and 1975^[5].

[edit] External links

It's All Politics - Ken Rudin's weekly podcast with Ron Elving.
The Political Junkie - Ken Rudin's Political Column and segment on Talk of the nation.
Intern Edition - NPR's intern website.