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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The House of Representatives narrowly rejected a bipartisan aviation safety bill that was spurred by the deadly midair collision of a Kansas flight near Washington, D.C. Missouri Rep. Sam Graves blasted it as an "unworkable government mandate." -
After a yearlong investigation, the National Transportation Safety Board did not find a single cause for the deadly collision, but blamed the crash on multiple systemic failures. 67 people died when an Army helicopter collided with an American Airlines flight from Wichita. -
The Federal Aviation Administration will reduce air traffic at many busy airports to maintain safety during the government shutdown, which has led to staffing shortages of air traffic controllers. -
"Free buses" is one of the big ideas that helped Zohran Mamdani win the Democratic mayoral primary in New York City. But in Kansas City, the bus system is going the opposite direction after years of free fares — mostly because of a lack of transit funding. -
A dozen facilities saw air traffic control shortages on Monday, delaying flights at several airports — although Kansas City's MCI hasn't seen major impacts yet. Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy blamed "a slight tick-up in sick calls" due to the shutdown. -
Boeing agreed to buy Spirit AeroSystems, the Wichita, Kansas-based supplier that makes fuselages for the 737 Max jet, in a deal intended to improve quality after a midair door plug blowout. -
Boeing says a deal to buy fuselage-maker Spirit AeroSystems in Wichita, Kansas, will help it control quality and safety. But a whistleblower who worked at Spirit for over a decade warns its problems won’t be easy to fix. -
Troubled plane maker Boeing wants to buy Spirit AeroSystems, the Kansas supplier that builds the body of the 737. The deal could have big implications for Wichita, a city with deep ties to aviation. -
Federal investigators are scrutinizing Spirit AeroSystems, a major Boeing supplier based in Kansas, as they try to understand why a fuselage panel blew off an Alaska Airlines jet in midair last month. -
The Trump administration says it's directing critical medical supplies "to the right place at the right time." But Gov. Steve Bullock says Montana isn't seeing any of that help.
