Lourdes "Lulu" Garcia-Navarro is an American journalist and an Opinion Audio podcast host for The New York Times.
15 Facts About Lulu Garcia-Navarro
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Lulu Garcia-Navarro was the host of National Public Radio's Weekend Edition Sunday from 2017 to 2021, when she left NPR after 17 years at the network.
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Lulu Garcia-Navarro then moved to Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, covering South America.
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Lulu Garcia-Navarro's series on the Amazon rainforest was a Peabody finalist and won an Edward R Murrow award for best news series.
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Lulu Garcia-Navarro has stated that her parents "are Cuban and Panamanian," and that she grew up in Miami.
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Lulu Garcia-Navarro started her career working as a freelance journalist for the BBC World Service and Voice of America, traveling to Cuba, Syria, Panama and several European countries on assignment for the two organizations.
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Lulu Garcia-Navarro was hired by Associated Press Television News as a producer in 1999 and later worked for the news agency's radio division.
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Lulu Garcia-Navarro traveled to Iraq on assignment before the 2003 war and was among the few journalists that covered the invasion as a unilateral reporter.
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Lulu Garcia-Navarro joined National Public Radio in November 2004 as Mexico City bureau chief, and moved to Baghdad in January 2008 and oversaw NPR's Iraq coverage for more than a year.
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Lulu Garcia-Navarro then moved to Jerusalem to become bureau chief, a position that she held from April 2009 to the end of 2012.
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In February 2011, Lulu Garcia-Navarro was one of the first reporters to report from eastern Libya as the uprising was gaining strength and reported for months from rebel-held Benghazi, Tripoli, and the western mountains as rebel forces fought pitched battles against Col.
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From her base in Brazil, Lulu Garcia-Navarro covered political protests, the Zika virus and the Olympics.
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Lulu Garcia-Navarro became the new regular host of NPR's Weekend Edition Sunday on January 8,2017, and later complemented that role by co-hosting the Saturday edition of the network's Up First podcast with Weekend Edition Saturday host Scott Simon.
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The New York Times Company announced on September 30,2021, that Lulu Garcia-Navarro would join its Opinion Audio team to anchor a new podcast to "explore the personal side of opinion".
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Lulu Garcia-Navarro is married to Times of London journalist James Hider.