It's been more than a minute, it's been twelve years...
After almost five years hosting the podcast and radio show It's Been A Minute with Sam Sanders, Sam Sanders has decided to leave NPR. His last day will be Friday, March 11. Sam joined NPR in 2009 as a Kroc Fellow, and after being a field producer and breaking news reporter, in 2015 he became a key member of NPR's Election unit and one of the original co-hosts of the award-winning NPR's Politics Podcast. He also spent time at three Member stations: WUNC in North Carolina, Oregon Public Broadcasting, and WBUR in Boston, as an intern for On Point.
In 2017 after taking a, a show that is not just about what's behind the week's headlines, but what it feels like to process them. Since the show's launch Sam has interviewed entertainers, journalists, authors — many of them right before they became household names. Back then Sam said: "I want this podcast to sound just like the way I talk with my friends, when we get together and catch up on the week. We don't just talk about politics or Beyoncé, or international diplomacy or memes — we talk about all of it, and we do it without pretense. I want the show to sound just like that, and make the same kind of connections."
