Alejandra Marquez Janse
Alejandra Marquez Janse is a producer for NPR's evening news program All Things Considered. She was part of a team that traveled to Uvalde, Texas, months after the mass shooting at Robb Elementary to cover its impact on the community. She also helped script and produce NPR's first bilingual special coverage of the State of the Union – broadcast in Spanish and English.
Before joining the show as an intern in 2021, Marquez Janse was an intern for South Florida's NPR member station, WLRN. She is a proud graduate of Florida International University, where she studied journalism and political science.
Marquez Janse was born and raised in Caracas, Venezuela.
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This year is the 25th anniversary of humans inhabiting the International Space Station. A new PBS documentary looks at how the ISS was built and the challenges of surviving in outer space.
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Billboard ranked what they consider the best Halloween songs. All Things Considered staffers have strong opinions about Billboard's take.
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The FBI says card shuffling machines were hacked to cheat at poker as part of a major illegal gambling scheme. NPR's Ailsa Chang talks to a reporter who's been covering the machines' vulnerabilities.
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NPR's Ari Shapiro speaks with author and journalist Carol Leonnig about the indictment of former FBI Director James Comey and what it says about the independence of the Justice Department.
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NPR's Ailsa Chang talks with Minnesota Sen. Amy Klobuchar about her reaction to Wednesday's deadly mass shooting at a Catholic church.
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NPR's Mary Louise Kelly talks with Democratic Congressman Raja Krishnamoorthi about President Trump's threats to send the National Guard into Chicago.
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Hurricane Katrina exposed longstanding flaws in the New Orleans criminal justice system. In the 20 years since, there has been dramatic change in the public defender office. -
NPR's Ari Shapiro talks with Big Freedia about her new album, "Pressing Onward," and how her childhood singing in the church led her to this moment, fusing gospel with her signature bounce music. -
With New Orleans under water, people incarcerated there were bused out to detention facilities across the South. Their records didn't go with them, massively complicating their legal cases.
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NPR's Mary Louise Kelly speaks with Glenn Kessler, outgoing writer of the Washington Post's Fact Checker, about recent buyouts at the paper, and the current state of fact-checking.
