Enjoyable if Noel, Steve or David are speaking. Otherwise the voice embellishment ruins the content. I stopped following

This podcast has become increasingly and obviously left leaning and biased. Steve in particular consistently sounds bitter and sarcastic when it pertains to any partisan matters. I have listened this is show daily for years now, but it has become increasingly difficult to do so. Dwayne and Leyla are great. Really hope they continue to host this podcast.

Literally no person I have ever met cares about the debt ceiling. I’m going to unsubscribe if you keep including debt ceiling coverage as a top three story. It’s fine to include it in your hours long morning show. But no person is coming to Up First to hear about the actual most boring topic that no regular person is talking about on the planet.

I'm not sure why, but I kinda enjoy the little chitchat Steve Inskeep and Michel Martin have before diving into the news. In addition to that, I truly appreciate their prompt news updates.

Up First is clear, concise, and informative. I used to listen to The Daily by the NYT, but I always came away feeling uninformed by the conservative and transphobic takes they spewed. I appreciate that Up First has some levity at times, it feels less stuffy than some other news podcasts. This is a petty aside but I hate the forced dramatic cadence of Michael Bubaro and other NYT hosts. This podcast flows and the hosts don't seem to consider it their personal stage. Most of all, the news is well researched and includes LOCAL JOURNALISTS! Thank you NPR for accompanying my morning joe.

I have been listening to and supporting NPR and Up First for years. There are so many great things about it - the international coverage among them. But I’m growing increasingly frustrated by the clear left lean. I had rejected that criticism by others, but now notice it with regularity. Up First doesn’t cover or glosses over things like the Durham Report after years of coverage contrary to what the report found. I listen to Up First everyday and never heard them correct the record. This breeds distrust. At this time, I continue to listen because I like getting top headlines in one place. But I would like the show to examine itself and decide if it really wants to be neutral. I hope the choice is yes.

The fountains that draw on aquifers is worse than using Lake Mead, once these underground waters are extracted there is no replenishment. A depressing podcast…

I listen to this podcast daily and for me it’s the best way to keep informed. I would like add however, that the pronunciation of Hiroshima is Hee-Row-Shee-Mah not Hih-Rosh-Shimah.

I like getting a daily dose of NPR‘s top news stories. It’s interesting to hear their take and prepares me for the day. Thanks!

Love the presenter and the overall tone, wish you would give a little more light to the illegal occupation of Palestinian Territories when covering it like you do when mention the illegal occupation of Ukrainian territories for example, but overall love the content

I’ve l’ve listened to NPR for decades and always appreciate the relatively neutral approach to the news. And so I’ve loved and appreciated this podcast for the same reasons. Lately though, I’m noticing a lot more “color commentary” from the hosts and it’s a turnoff. It’s not that I even disagree with their comments, I could just want more reporting headlines and less commentary.

What is with the high-pitched cheery voices of news and ad people? Example, Ayesha Rascoe’s voice makes my shoulders go into my ears. This is a show-stopper. What are they teaching in school? That a high-pitched, whiny, nasal voice wins listeners? Or that everyone should celebrate their own tonal quality? Please. Autotune that stuff. This may be a personal preference, but I can’t listen to it.

You covered the allegations on George Santos which is great, but nothing on the allegations against the Biden family that just dropped? Once again, please do better and cover all news, not just what you want to cover.

Imagine only covering the indictment of a no name, non-committee house member and totally ignore the news of the House committee laying out evidence of Biden family payoffs.

Please go back to titling the core news episodes with the day and date. It’s hard to tell the difference between the core episodes and the bonus content.

Every time we cover these stories it sensationalizes another shooting. People see that they can get attention. There is almost never any happy news reported anymore. Unsubscribing.

You failed to mention that Mr Neely had an arrest warrant for assaulting a 67yo woman and 40 other arrests. But you portray him as a beloved street performer. Also fails to say that one of the other people restating Mr Neely was black. Failed to mention what led up to the restaurant… Report the entire story stop cherry picking.

Some of the most biased news out there. NPR is basically Newsmax of the left. I listen to this podcast mainly to keep up to date on Democrat party talking points, as this network is the unofficial the press office of the deep state regime. I grew up listening to NPR thinking it was just straight news, and maybe back then it was. However now the extreme progressive orthodoxy is unmistakable. Look no further than their failure to report on the Hunter Biden story… not only did they refuse to report on it, they bought into the bogus narrative that it was “Russian disinformation” and seemed quite proud of themselves for being useful idiots. They have become everything Americans used to despise, a press that faithfully regurgitates everything handed to them by the uniparty regime.

The killer was Not a Texas Man! He was an ILLEGAL. It matters. Please tell the whole story

I am an immigrant and my English teacher suggested to listen to npr. I thought i was listening to news but they have political agendas behind what they report. It took me a long time to realize that.

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I like the show and listen regularly. I don’t mind the left-center orientation of NPR. There is an inconsistent pattern however that reveals an unhealthy bias. When you cover immigration ( I’m very pro-immigrant…married one) you counter your already left-center orientation with opinions from “immigrant-advocates.” When you cover abortion you refuse to refer to opponents by their preferred name (I know even the AP Style Guide builds in a prejudice for “anti-abortion, rather than “pro-life”) It grates on the ears of fair-minded centrists when you set stories up this way. I hope you’re not merely out to please your most ardent listeners/fan service instead of challenging them with the real nuance in stories that concern important topics like immigration and abortion. People in fact do disagree on these and other issues in good-faith. NPR should platform issues honestly and with a proper view from the other side. Not everyone is a Trumper on the right, but it sure is easy for liberal news institutions to disregard criticism under that assumption. Be better NPR! Thanks for the show.

I say this as a long time listener and someone who has only ever voted for democrats The liberal bias is too much Over the years ,it became increasingly obvious they were just reporting one side stories. More recently, it has turned into active propagandizing of a narrative. It has gotten to the point where I just turn it off mid episode. The reason I listen to NPR is to hear unbiased nonpartisan news. I am not asking for bothsidesism. Please just report the relevant facts and don’t push a narrative.

Not sure how you decide what to cover, but the topics are often unimportant. I deleted the podcast on earth day when there was no mention of climate change. Consistently disappointed.

As a black woman, I didn’t like hearing about all the killings of unarmed black people by police as just a simple number without other facts. We all know that there might be more that goes into each of those cases then simply counting it as a number of wrong doing. This is divisive and it takes more than a 5 minute segment to properly and accurately report on that. I do enjoy getting the latest of what’s going on, but I always have to double check for partisanship. If you’re looking for a good center focused podcast this isn’t it. I usually listen to this and then try to listen to two conservative news outlets just to get the non-bias news. They play rants of tucker Carlson and just mention that don lemon was fired as well but don’t also play some unattractive rants from him as well. Definitely a sounding board for Democratic Party and helps demonize the Republican Party but does help tell you some things in the news.

After years of putting up with the extreme Left Wing bias, I finally became fed up and stopped listening. It’s really too bad because the format of the show is great. It’s ruined by the blatant bias.

Long time listener, first time reviewer. Absolutely LOVED hearing A Martinez do the intro in Spanish today. Latinx presente! Keep up the great work, NPR!!! Edit: 100% here for Steve Inskeep’s goofy intros.

NPR has chosen a side when it’s supposed to be fair and balanced. Host clearly push a left narrative and seems more sympathetic to liberals while demonizing Conservatives. I only listen to hear how they spin the failed agenda of the Biden Administration. Update: about the Tennessee school shooting, NPR refuses to cover the fact that the shooter was Transgender and targeted the school with detailed plans. Instead they make the story about gun control to fit their narrative. Disgusting! In the Akron Ohio police shooting, they leave out the fact that the gun was found in the car and had been used to fire an police during a car chase. Federal Funding needs to be cut from NPR !!!

has an annoying voice, other than that I enjoy the podcast

Ayesha is the worst. She doesn’t use proper English. Her voice is sing songy. The twang is beyond irritating I expect a lot more from NPR.

Propaganda

I can’t even remember anything about the story. That cutesy Woopsie up-and-down little girl voice was so irritating. There is no place for this kind of drama in News. Are you serious or is this a cartoon? The Voice is also a disgrace to women. If you want to be serious, you need to get rid of this person.

has all my favorite radio shows and podcasts. I would love to hear Paul and Sasha from the podcast Community News by Paul and Sasha host some of your shows though.

NPR has a variety of informative story type podcasts/shows and news programming. I love the wide selection. It saddens me that we’ve lost several due to the budget cuts. Inflation has cost all. We, the every day funders, can no longer support what we once could. Even those who spent much to support these nonprofit news organizations - whether or not they agreed with them- find their coffers have shrunk or depleted as well. We, America, are more than Americans. We are those who come here to work for their families abroad! We are those who are starving to feed are families right here! But we should no long be those who sell to the highest bidder no matter what country they’re from. We must care to plant well right here. Just like NPR has done. NPR places great value in the work and those who do it! We should as well!

I love the weekly podcast for its brevity and have really been enjoying the Sunday stories, too. You never know what you’re going to get and the topics are always interesting.

Today is Easter Sunday April 9 2023 and today’s The Daily podcast reminded why I became a New York Times digital subscriber. Excellent coverage of the RNC convention. Thank you!

Obviously state run media

This podcast should be hours long. It should cover every story reported by NPR. I’m never going back to radio. I will never tune in or pay during endless fundraising. You should run adds to help pay for all the stations and run all the stories. Welcome to the future it’s just starting now.

I’ve been listening to this podcast for 8+ years first thing in the morning. The both sideism on HUMAN RIGHTS ISSUES in Palestine is disgusting. I can no longer support a podcast that frames an apartheid state as a Palestine vs israel problem. This is an israel problem. Shame on you

I listen to Up First as a part of my morning routine. It is informative and provides good insight I to the top stories of the day. My morning would be incomplete without it!

I listed to Up First first thing in the morning as I get ready for work, it leaves me feeling informed and prepared!

My fam listens to this everyday and get a lot of our info on news from it. Great way to listen to the news with my kids💥🍕

I enjoy the actual podcast, but the name is deceiving. This podcast used to be released very early, but it is really inconsistent lately. I used to enjoy getting a quick news update on my drive to work at 6:30 AM EST, but the new episode is rarely uploaded by then now.

I used to be able to listen every day before work (I start at 7). Now it gets released so late I have to find other news podcasts to listen to.

This is really up first for me every day. Love the journalists. NPR covers the world.

Up First is a great way to start my day. The reporting is excellent and unbiased. Thankful for the addition of Ayesha Roscoe. Ms. Roscoe is a great reporter and has a delightful voice and manner. Super grateful to hear Michel Martin has joined the team. Ms. Martin is an exceptional journalist.

With everything going on in the world, you’d think they’d always have something hard hitting to cover, but boy do these folks play soft. The Tik Tok discourse for example really showed what social media company NPR really backs and it’s the name of one of the biggest sponsor they have…Facebook. Just white noise for things like the fed increasing interest rates to levels equal to the 2008 financial crisis. It’s almost like a huge institution like capital one is also a sponsor…just another neo liberal organization posing under the guise of being leftist.

Woke up to NPR’s Up First being behind a subscription paywall. While searching for a reason why this was happening, they must have corrected the issue and just included an advertisement for their subscription service. I do not believe this was accidental. NPR’s ability to quickly turn it into an advertisement rather than a paywall seems disingenuous. Always loved and supported NPR. But if this happens again, I’ll have to unsubscribe due to a breach of trust.

Reporters definitely lean left, but overall it’s one of the better news summaries of the day.

Very frustrating to listen to Up First coverage on agricultural issues. Up First needs to interview agriculture experts when doing these stories. Food prices are not going to be effect for the next two months from these floods, try they will be effected in 6-9 months from now. Additionally, California is not the bread basket state. It’s a bit annoying to listen to these episodes and in one, Up First says that Silicon Bank did not fall within the banking regulations that were removed then now say that it was the removal of these regulations that caused this collapse and not inflation. When in fact it was the Fed increasing interest rates due to inflation that caused the back to take actions which then triggered a run on itself.