Matthew Cloutier
Matthew Cloutier is a producer for TED Radio Hour. While at the show, he has focused on stories about science and the natural world, ranging from Mars rovers and failed telescope launches to exploring Antarctica's hidden life and 3D scans of the planet. He has also pitched these kinds of episodes, including "Through the looking glass" and "Migration."
Cloutier began in January 2020 with an internship for TED Radio Hour, following which he expanded into social media and audience engagement, including a series of activities and lessons to pair with show segments. He began regularly producing segments for the show in the fall of 2020.
Prior to NPR, Cloutier worked for the greatest radio station in the world, the independent WPKN in Bridgeport, Connecticut.
He graduated from Middlebury College in 2019 with a degree in environmental studies and never outgrew his childhood obsessions with dinosaurs, moths and sea life. Accordingly, he often succeeds in working into conversations that summer he did necropsies on an island owned by unitarians. [Copyright 2025 NPR]
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Louisiana has two problems: an eroding coastline and limited glass recycling. Engineer Franziska Trautmann is solving both by turning bottles into beach sand. -
U.S. Poet Laureate Ada Limón reflects on her term and the urgency of connecting to nature through poetry. -
NPR's Emily Kwong speaks with former Education Secretary John B. King Jr. about the dismantling of the education department and recent arrests of international scholars. -
NPR's Ari Shapiro speaks with Richard Haass, who served three republican presidents. Haass says President Trump's foreign policy has effectively put the post-WWII world order "on life support."
