Career
He, along with co-host Renée Montagne, were assigned as interim hosts to succeed Bob Edwards after National Public Radio reassigned Edwards to Senior Correspondent after April 30, 2004. Inskeep and Montagne were officially named hosts of Morning Edition in December 2004. Prior to being host of Morning Edition, he was National Public Radio"s transportation correspondent and the host of Weekend All Things Considered.
Inskeep is the author of Instant City: Life and Death in Karachi, published in October of 2011.
The book examines the changes associated with the dramatic growth of Karachi, Pakistan, in the second half of the twentieth century. Inskeep has made several trips to Pakistan in his role at National Public Radio. Inskeep was raised in Carmel, Indiana, and graduated from Morehead State University in Morehead, Kentucky in 1990.
His first professional experience in radio was a stint as a sportscaster at WMKY-FM in Morehead. Inskeep was hired by National Public Radio in 1996.
His first full-time assignment was the 1996 presidential primary in New Hampshire.