Joel Rose
Joel Rose is a correspondent on NPR's National Desk. As the network's transportation correspondent since 2023, Rose's reporting focuses on roadway and pedestrian safety, an air travel system under stress and how emerging technologies are changing the ways we get around.
In his previous assignment on the immigration beat, Rose was part of an NPR team that was a finalist for the duPont-Columbia Award for reporting on the Trump administration's "Remain in Mexico" policy. He traveled to Arizona to investigate how fentanyl is smuggled through legal ports of entry at the southern border, and to Honduras to report on how climate change is reshaping migration.
Rose joined NPR in 2011 as a general assignment reporter in New York City. He's interviewed grieving parents after the mass shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School, asylum-seekers fleeing from violence and poverty in Central and South America and a long list of musicians including Solomon Burke, Tom Waits, Sixto Rodriguez, Mary Halvorson and Arcade Fire.
Breaking news coverage has taken him across the country: from the mass shooting at Emanuel AME Church in South Carolina, to major hurricanes in Florida, Louisiana, New York and North Carolina, and protests after the deaths of Trayvon Martin and Eric Garner.
Rose has collaborated with NPR's Planet Money, Consider This and Up First podcasts, and contributed to NPR's Peabody Award-winning coverage of the Ebola outbreak in 2014.
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President Trump says a new deal with Venezuela would give the U.S. control of more than 65 billion barrels of oil reserves.
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Blocked roads and monsoon weather are complicating efforts to get food, shelter and emergency hygeine to survivors of Nepal's catastrophic floods. World Vision's Dhruba Gurmachhan explains what survivors need the most.
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The FAA's response to a deadly crash is opening a larger debate about staffing, safety and a workplace practice controllers call the "early shove."
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ICE made nearly 50,000 arrests in July -- the highest monthly total of Trump's second term -- as enforcement expands to more places like airports, courthouses and immigration check-ins.
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Oh, Mary! has discovered an unusual way to keep a Broadway hit fresh: keep replacing Mary Todd Lincoln with someone completely different.
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Meta agreed to billions in payments and new protections for kids. Harvard Law's Leah Plunkett looks at what it could mean for Meta's competitors and for AI companies.
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Puerto Rico's drought is only part of the reason residents are losing water. NPR's Adrian Florido explains what years of reporting on the island have taught him.
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Millions of drivers across the country are encountering speed cameras for the first time, or will soon. Many don't like it, but advocates say there's clear evidence that cameras make roads safer.
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NPR's Rob Schmitz talks with transportation correspondent Joel Rose about quiet changes the Department of Transportation made to road safety recommendations on its website - and why they matter.
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Millions of drivers across the country are encountering speed cameras for the first time, or will soon. Some don't like it, but advocates say there's clear evidence that cameras make roads safer.
