Mo Rocca

Mo Rocca is an Emmy-winning correspondent for CBS Sunday Morning,host of the Mobituaries podcast, and the New York Times bestselling author of Roctogenarians: Late in Life Debuts, Comebacks and Triumphs. On radio, he’s a frequent panelist on NPR’s hit weekly quiz show Wait, Wait...Don’t Tell Me! Rocca created and hosted Cooking Channel’s My Grandmother’s Ravioli, in which he traveled the country learning to cook from America’s grandparents. He got his start on television as a correspondent on The Daily Show with Jon Stewart. On Broadway he played Vice Principal Panch in The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee. Other stage credits include Doody in the Southeast Asia tour of Grease. Rocca is coauthor of 2019’s Mobituaries: Great Lives Worth Reliving and author of 2004’s All the Presidents’ Pets: The Story of One Reporter who Refused to Roll Over.

Michael Barbaro

Michael Barbaro hosts “The Daily,” a five-day-a-week audio show from The New York Times with a dedicated audience of ten million unique listeners a month. “The Daily” was nominated for a Peabody Award in April 2019. In 2018, “The Daily” became the most-downloaded show on Apple Podcasts and was named a top podcast of the year by New York Magazine and The Atlantic. In 2017, the show won a DuPont-Columbia University Award for audio excellence.

Before hosting “The Daily,” Barbaro was a national political correspondent for The Times and host of “The Run-up,” a political podcast that chronicled the 2016 election. Previously, he covered New York’s City Hall and the U.S. retail industry.

He joined The Times in 2005 from The Washington Post, where he began in 2002 as a reporter covering the biotechnology industry. Barbaro graduated from Yale in 2002 with a bachelor's degree in history.

Sabrina Tavernise

Sabrina Tavernise is co-host of “The Daily.” She started at The New York Times in Moscow in 2000 and spent her first 10 years as a foreign correspondent, based in Russia, Iraq and Pakistan, and in Turkey, where she was the Istanbul bureau chief. In Iraq, she covered civilian casualties and documented the lives of ordinary Iraqis from 2003 to 2007, and was one of the first to identify sectarian cleansing in 2005.

Before joining The Times, Tavernise was a freelance writer in Russia for publications including BusinessWeek. From 1997 to 1999, she worked for Bloomberg News in Moscow.

In 2010, she became a national correspondent covering demographics and was the lead writer for The Times on the Census, capturing major demographic shifts underway in the United States, including in mortality and fertility, race and ethnicity.