Emily Alfin Johnson Emily Alfin Johnson is the Growth Editor for Network Initiatives.
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Emily Alfin Johnson

Emily Alfin Johnson

Growth Editor, Network Initiatives

Emily Alfin Johnson is the Growth Editor for Network Initiatives.

Before joining NPR, Alfin Johnson was digital editor for the public media collaborative Guns & America, where she managed digital content and strategy for the 10-station collaboration, in addition to writing and editing (including the award-winning multimedia series "Shattered: Life After Being Shot" by WAMU's Tyrone Turner and NPR's Alana Wise).

Alfin Johnson also worked as digital producer and senior producer at Member station Vermont Public Radio, where she covered the 2012 DNC, helped produce an award-winning multimedia investigation on the role of guns in Vermont life and reported that Target was finally coming to the Green Mountain State.

Prior to that, she interned with NHPR and the NPR Training team, and was a producer for NPR's On Point.

She is a graduate of the University of Puget Sound in Tacoma, Wash., and takes far too many pictures of her dogs.

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A look back at some of the NPR stories that were the most read online

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2023 has been a wild year. This composite image shows some of the subjects of our most popular stories: Fireball Whiskey, a Steller's jay, a Yellowstone visitor attempting to help a stranded bison calf, and Tucker Carlson. David Becker/Getty Images; Mick Thompson/Flickr Creative Commons; Hellen Jack/National Park Service; Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images hide caption

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As inspiration for all trees preparing their autumnal hues, here's a beautiful red oak photographed in Berlin's Kreuzberg district on October 28, 2020. DAVID GANNON/AFP via Getty Images hide caption

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This Kid Just Put Everyone Else's Pandemic Hobby Game To Shame

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Internally displaced Afghan families, who fled from Kunduz, Takhar and Baghlan provinces due to battles between the Taliban and Afghan security forces, sit in front of temporary tents on Wednesday at Sara-e-Shamali in Kabul. Wakil Koshar/AFP via Getty Images hide caption

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Edith Murway (right) with her friend Carmen Gutworth at the gym. Gutworth convinced Murway to join her at the gym, which is how at 91 she got hooked on lifting. Guinness World Records/Edith Murway hide caption

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Meet The Nonagenarian Who Is A Record-Breaking Weightlifter

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A fire warning sign is seen amid trees which smolder and burn in Division Echo Echo of the Bootleg Fire on July 25, 2021, in the Fremont National Forest of Oregon. Mathieu Lewis-Rolland/AFP via Getty Images hide caption

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Lora Webster of The United States plays a shot during the Women's Sitting Volleyball final Gold Medal match at the London 2012 Paralympic Games. She'll be competing in Tokyo this year. Dan Kitwood/Getty Images hide caption

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Gold medalists Ancuta Bodnar and Simona Radis of Romania celebrate on the podium following the women's double sculls final at the Tokyo Olympics on Wednesday. Charly Triballeau/AFP via Getty Images hide caption

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In her video Weehawken to Gettysburg Cathy Cluck stands near a statue of Alexander Hamilton in New Jersey. Cluck took a 15-day road trip to visit some of the places she teaches her students about each year and posted daily highlights to her YouTube. Catherine Cluck via YouTube/Screenshot by NPR hide caption

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Texas Teacher Takes Her Students On A Road Trip Through U.S. History — Remotely

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View of Seltun geothermal field in Krysuvik on the Reykjanes peninsula in southwestern Iceland on July 5, 2014. Joel Saget/AFP via Getty Images hide caption

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App Lets You Destress By Screaming Into Icelandic Wilderness

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