David Greene is an award-winning journalist and New York Times best-selling author. He is a host of NPR's Morning Edition, the most listened-to radio news program in the United States, and also of NPR's popular morning news podcast, Up First.
Ashley Westerman is a Supervising Editor/Producer and lead Assignments Manager for Morning Edition. She is a long-time alumna of the show who rejoins the staff, after a stint overseas living and working as a freelance reporter and audio producer based in the Philippines covering Southeast Asia and the Pacific, and then in Ukraine covering Russia’s full-scale invasion.