Mosley briefed National Press Foundation fellows in September 2024: ‘Fresh Air’ Co-Host Tonya Mosley Explores the Power of Lived Experience.

Tonya Mosley is the co-host of NPR’s Fresh Air and founder of TMI Productions. Previously, she was the co-host of NPR’s midday program Here & Now, where she led daily coverage during the Trump administration, the pandemic, and the racial reckoning of 2021. On January 6, 2021, she hosted live NPR special coverage of the January 6th insurrection as it was happening. Before Here & Now, Tonya led a team of tech journalists as the Silicon Valley Bureau Chief for KQED in San Francisco. Tonya is also the creator and host of the award-winning podcast Truth Be Told, and She Has A Name.

Before radio, Tonya created award-winning news features and long-form television programming as a producer, reporter, anchor, and correspondent for various outlets, including NBC and Al Jazeera America. She has earned several awards for her work, including two Webby Awards for Best Documentary and Best Advice Podcasts, a 2016 Emmy Award for her PBS series “Beyond Ferguson,” and an Edward R. Murrow and NABJ Award for the series “Black In Seattle.”  In 2015, Tonya was awarded the John S. Knight Fellowship at Stanford University, where she co-created a curriculum for journalists on the implications of implicit bias.