Nina Gregory
Nina Gregory is a senior editor for NPR's Arts Desk, where she oversees coverage of film across the network and edits and and assigns stories on television, art, design, fashion, food, and culture.
Gregory started at NPR on Christmas Eve in 2006 as an overnight editor for Morning Edition. In her time at NPR, she has covered everything from the financial crisis to elections, the Sundance Film Festival, and Comic-Con. She has worked on interviews and profiles of people including ballerina Wendy Whelan, director Ava DuVernay, Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg, punk icon Iggy Pop, and Lucasfilm president Kathleen Kennedy, which earned a Gracie award.
Before coming to NPR, Gregory worked as a freelancer and on staff at various magazines and websites. She contributed to the Los Angeles Times, the LA Weekly, Grand Royal, Intersection, TransWorld Skateboarding, and TransWorld Stance. For years, she wrote about video games, music, and pop culture for youth-oriented publications.
Gregory received a bachelor's degree from UCLA in world arts and cultures, and a master's degree from Columbia University's Graduate School of Journalism. She teaches at the Daily Bruin at UCLA, where she worked for the paper and radio station.
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Also, we explore a piece that argues that you should wantrobots to take your job. No. Seriously.
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Exciting and colorful Hollywood treasures turn up at the estate sale of a woman who made patterns for renowned costume designers Edith Head and Bob Mackie.
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Ever wondered what it feels like to get into one of the moon suits that Ebola workers wear for protection? At a TED Talk, Bill Gates gave audience members a chance to climb in and see. -
Remember how the T-1000 in Terminator 2re-formed out of molten metal? The folks at Carbon3D figured out how to do that in real life, and what they created may be the next iteration of 3-D printing. -
Wendy Whelan, 47, will give her final performance with the New York City Ballet on Saturday. NPR spent time with the dancer as she prepared for her goodbye. -
The annual pop culture convention underway in San Diego is not just for comic books — it brings the biggest stars from film, television and books together with their fans to talk about upcoming, and vintage, work.
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Popular during the housing boom, flipping houses is when investors buy a house, fix it up and then resell it within six months. With an improving economy, investors are at it again. In parts of California, it's happening at some of the fastest rates in a decade. -
At the corner of Crenshaw Boulevard and 28th Street in Los Angeles, you'll find Robert Oliver wearing a Statue of Liberty costume and dancing to promote Liberty Tax Service. "I'm never embarrassed to be out here," he says. "I'm proud of what I do."
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Richard Turere, 13, put his father's cows in a pen at night. That's when the trouble would start. Lions would jump in the shed and kill the farm animals. One night he was walking around with a flashlight and discovered the lions were scared of a moving light. A light went on inside him and an idea was born.
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Fifty Shades of Grey, the biggest phenomenon in publishing right now, began as a work of fan fiction based on the Twilight books. Now, author E.L. James is taking the series to the ultimate fans: attendees at this year's San Diego Comic-Con.
