Giles Snyder
The main thing you should know about Giles Snyder is that he is an extreme commuter. He drives 90 miles from his home to the NPR newsroom, usually in the middle of the night.
After Snyder accepted his job as an NPR newscaster in the summer of 2004, he and his family never quite made it all the way to Washington, DC. They got as far as Martinsburg in their home state of West Virginia, looked around, and decided to stay.
Martinsburg is in West Virginia's Eastern Panhandle. It's on the outer edges of DC's bedroom communities, but Snyder's NPR colleagues are often wide-eyed when they find out where he lives and how much time he spends behind the wheel.
Snyder is from the more southern region of West Virginia. He grew up in the state capital of Charleston and went to Marshall University in the Ohio River town of Huntington. Before coming to NPR, he spent 16 years working for West Virginia Public Broadcasting, the statewide public radio and television network.
Since journalists like nothing better than to brag about the awards they've won for their work, Snyder is most satisfied by the recognition he received for the humor column he used to write for his local newspaper in Martinsburg. His column was recognized twice by the West Virginia Press Association, and he once received an honorable mention from the National Society of Newspaper Columnists.
When he's not on the road making his way to and from the NPR newsroom, Snyder still occasionally writes humorously about his personal life.
-
That's up from 143 incidents in a report issued in 2021. Officials partly credited reducing stigma around the issue for the new reports, many of which are older and went unmentioned at the time. -
Following the Mueller report's release, a number of the 2020 Democratic candidates, like their colleagues in Congress, are debating how aggressively to respond to the special counsel's findings. -
A day before midterm elections, the social media giant announces that it suspended the accounts after it was notified of suspicious activity that may be linked to foreign entities. -
Yusaku Maezawa would be the first person since 1972 to travel around the moon and the first-ever private citizen to do it. He was introduced at SpaceX headquarters near Los Angeles Monday night. -
A man was arrested on "suspicion of terrorist offenses," police say, after his vehicle crossed through a pedestrian area Tuesday morning. -
After receiving a strongly worded letter from the government ethics office, Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross says he will sell all of his remaining stocks. -
The Government Accountability Office released a report warning NASA that further delays in the space agency's commercial crew program could keep American astronauts from reaching the space station. -
The winner of Wednesday's World Cup semi-final between England and Croatia will advance to Sunday's championship match against France. -
The pharmaceutical company says it will delay price increases that went into effect on July 1. The move follows pressure from President Trump. -
Actor James Garner, whose wise-cracking but affable character made hits out of the TV shows Maverick and The Rockford Files, has died. He was 86.
