NPR News with Tony Cox is a daily one-hour magazine program originating from the studios of NPR West in Los Angeles. It offers intelligent talk, news, and commentary from fresh, diverse points of view, and reports on everything from politics to pop culture.

This program brings listeners a topical radio magazine with a particular emphasis on African- American perspectives. Tony Cox hosts the program while a national search is conducted to fill the host position held by Tavis Smiley since 2002. The program is heard on over 80 public radio stations across the nation.

NPR News with Tony Cox features a high-profile cast of regular guests, including scholars Cornel West and Charles Ogletree, religion professor Michael Eric Dyson, former Congressman J.C. Watts, civil rights expert Connie Rice, technology guru Omar Wasow, law professor Kimberly Crenshaw, and University of California regent Ward Connerly. On Fridays, the show takes a lighter tone, as guests such as comedians Paul Mooney and Cheryl Underwood offer a humorous take on current events.

The program was developed as a result of an ongoing collaboration between NPR and a consortium of African-American public radio stations, including WCLK-FM in Atlanta, Ga.; WNCU-FM in Durham, N.C.; WJSU in Jackson, Miss.; and WEAA in Baltimore, Md.

Award-winner Tony Cox hosts NPR News with Tony Cox originating from the studios of NPR West in Los Angeles. Cox has built a distinguished career in broadcast journalism that spans three decades in television and radio.

From 1998 to 2002, he was a sports correspondent for DirecTV Sports, conducting interviews with some of the biggest names in professional and collegiate sports on the direct broadcast satellite program, This Week on Sports.

During that time, Cox was also a national correspondent for Fox Sports Net, where he reported for The Last Word with Jim Rome, Goin' Deep, and for both the National Sports Report and The Southern California Regional Sports Report.

Prior to that, he spent nine years as senior correspondent and substitute host for Inside Edition, covering such major news events as the Los Angeles riots, the Oklahoma City bombing, the capture of the Unabomber, and the criminal trials of O.J. Simpson and the Menendez brothers.

Cox began his career in 1969 in Los Angeles at KFWB All News Radio where, for more than 14 years, he worked as an award-winning reporter and anchor. From 1978 to 1980 he also hosted a public affairs show for Metromedia TV. He joined KCBS-TV in 1982 as a reporter and show host, and later moved to KTTV-FOX as a nightly news anchor. While there he earned an Emmy for anchoring special coverage of a major airline crash.

Cox is an assistant professor of television film and media studies at California State University Los Angeles. He is a five-time winner of the Golden Mike and has won numerous Los Angeles Press Club Awards and two NAACP Image Awards.