Lauren Chooljian
Senior Reporter/Producer, DocumentLauren is a Senior Reporter/Producer for NHPR's narrative news unit, Document.
Before joining NHPR in 2017, Lauren spent nearly six years as a reporter, producer and fill-in host for WBEZ in Chicago. Most recently, she covered City Hall and Mayor Rahm Emanuel’s administration.
Her reporting has earned her awards from the Associated Press and a regional Murrow Award. In 2014, her voice was featured on a best-of list in the Chicago Tribune culture section for its “unpretentious, Peppermint Patty scratchiness,” which her family especially appreciated.
Lauren graduated with a BA in History from Saint Anselm College and has a Master of Science in Journalism from the Medill School of Journalism at Northwestern University, where she was also an adjunct lecturer. Her work as been featured on NPR, Marketplace, Here and Now, and in The Washington Post, among others.
Lauren is a proud New Hampshire native, born and raised in Hampstead.
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Things are feeling pretty heavy right now. Whether you are practicing social distancing at home, caring for a loved one who is ill or trying to make sense…
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A longtime defender of New Hampshire’s first-in-the-nation presidential primary won’t be running for another term at the Democratic National…
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Former South Bend, Ind., Mayor Pete Buttigieg finished in a close second place behind Sen. Bernie Sanders in the 2020 New Hampshire Democratic Primary,…
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Pete Buttigieg's campaign spent the last weekend before the New Hampshire primary highlighting big crowds and rising poll numbers. But that boost in…
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NPR's Ari Shapiro talks with Lauren Chooljian, host of New Hampshire Public Radio's Stranglehold podcast, about two different candidate events and what they reveal about the future of the primary.
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After a day of confusion and incomplete information, the two candidates who, at least for now, appear to have finished first and second in the Iowa…
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A lot of New Hampshire voters still have no idea who they’ll support in the presidential primary: recent polling indicates just 30 percent of likely…
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Some of the Democratic candidates running for president this year are banking on a myth.It’s a famous one: That New Hampshire gives little known…
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The global consulting firm has become a talking point on the campaign trail lately. Pete Buttigieg, particularly, has been criticized for his time there.
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South Bend, Ind. Mayor Pete Buttigieg called on the consulting firm McKinsey and Co. Friday to release its client list from his time at the company, a…