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{{short description|American radio news magazine programs}}

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{{Infobox Radioradio Showshow

| show_name = Weekend Edition

| image = Weekend Edition logo.jpg

| format = News, analysis, commentary, interviews, special features

| runtime = c.{{circa}} 105 min

| country = United States

| language = English

| syndicates = National Public Radio ([[NPR]])

| presenter = [[Scott Simon]] <br/> (Saturdays)<br/> [[Ayesha Rascoe]] <br/> (Sundays)

| creator =

| director =

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'''''Weekend Edition''''' is a set of American [[radio]] [[news magazine]] programs produced and distributed by National Public Radio ([[NPR]]). It is the weekend counterpart to the NPR radio program ''[[Morning Edition]]''. It consists of '''''Weekend Edition Saturday''''' and '''''Weekend Edition Sunday''''', each of which airs for two hours, from 8:00 AM{{nbsp}}a.m. to 10:00 {{nbsp}}a.m. Eastern time, with refeeds until 2:00 &nbsp;p.m. ''Weekend Edition Saturday'' is hosted by [[Scott Simon]], while. ''Weekend Edition Sunday'' wasis hosted by [[LuluAyesha Garcia-NavarroRascoe]] from January 8, 2017, through October 17, 2021. Garcia-Navarro's successor has not yet been named.

The programs feature longer stories than most NPR news magazines, and more arts and culture stories.

==Format==

Weekday sibling ''[[Morning Edition]]'' breaks up each hour into five segments, none more than twelve minutes long; ''Weekend Edition'' uses only three segments per hour, accommodating longer stories than ''Morning Edition'' typically accommodates.

''Weekend Edition'' begins with a sixty-second billboard. Both Simon and Garcia-NavarroRascoe use the billboard as a general discussion about what's coming up in the hour, infused with soundbites from selected stories. A standard five-minute NPR newscast follows, until six past the hour. A thirty-second [[music bed]] follows the newscast, allowing local stations an opportunity to promote programming or local news/weather/traffic.

Segment A begins at 6:30 past the hour (duration 11:29). The most important news of the day is placed here. Regular features (such as, before his death, [[Daniel Schorr]]'s weekly news wrap-up) appear in this segment. At eighteen minutes past the hour, a two-minute station break starts. The first minute is a music bed solely for use of the member stations. The second minute, from nineteen to twenty past, is a "headlines" segment in which the NPR newscaster on staff that morning recaps the major stories of the hour. Some stations decide to use the entire two minutes for local purposes, taking the opportunity to deliver their own headlines, underwriting or events calendars.

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** [[Rachel Martin (broadcast journalist)|Rachel Martin]] (2012–2016)<ref name="NPR_press_release_2013_10313"/><ref>{{cite news | title=NPR: Rachel Martin hosts ''Weekend Edition Sunday'' | url=http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2011/dec/8/npr-rachel-martin-hosts-weekend-edition-sunday/ | work=[[The Washington Times]] |agency=[[Associated Press]] |date=8 December 2011 | access-date=2012-01-07}}</ref>

** [[Lulu Garcia-Navarro]] (2017–2021)<ref>{{Cite web |title=Lulu Garcia-Navarro (biography) |url=https://www.npr.org/people/4462099/lourdes-garcia-navarro |publisher=NPR |access-date=13 August 2019}}</ref>

** [[Ayesha Rascoe]] and other NPR correspondents alternated hosting ''Weekend Edition Sunday'', after host [[Lulu Garcia-Navarro]] departed in October 2021.

** [[Ayesha Rascoe]] (2022–).<ref name=":0">{{Cite web |title=Ayesha Rascoe Named Host of Weekend Edition and Up First |url=https://www.npr.org/about-npr/1082832407/ayesha-rascoe-named-host-of-weekend-edition-and-up-first |publisher=NPR |access-date=25 Feb 2022}}</ref> Rascoe's first broadcast as the permanent host was March 27, 2022.<ref name=":0" />

* Contributors:

** [[Joe Bevilacqua]] (won 2004 Silver Reel Award from the [[National Federation of Community Broadcasters]] for his personal essay, "A Guy Named [[Joe Bevilacqua]]")

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*[https://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=6844281 20 Years of ''Weekend Edition'' Sunday (audio)]

*[http://groups.google.com/group/nprpuzzle/?msg=new&hl=en Google group on NPR puzzle, with archive]

*[http://lists.topica.com/lists/[e-mail]/read Archive of synopses of Will Shortz puzzle segments] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060621054403/http://lists.topica.com/lists/[e-mail]/read |date=June 21, 2006 }}

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