Claire Donnelly is a senior producer at On Point.
Prior to joining On Point, Claire was a reporter for various public radio newsrooms, including WFAE in Charlotte, North Carolina and KGOU in Norman, Oklahoma. She’s covered a broad range of subjects from the coronavirus pandemic to Texas horned lizards.
Claire holds a master’s degree in journalism from Northwestern University’s Medill School and studied Spanish and literature at the University of Virginia.
When not working, Claire is likely making a mess in the kitchen or hunched over a crossword puzzle.
Recently published
Why the pope wants to 'disarm' AI
Pope Leo XIV has published his first major document. The encyclical “Magnifica Humanitas” focuses on AI and what the pope calls the “distorting effects of technological power.”
Is Google's new AI search killing the internet?
Google has a new AI search bar. Instead of links, it gives you AI-synthesized answers. Some say it could be the end of the internet as we know it.
The new science of 'dad brain'
You’ve heard of 'mom brain.' But how do men’s brains change when they become fathers?
The small Utah county fighting a massive data center
A rural county at the edge of the Great Salt Lake. A multimillionaire celebrity businessman. A shadowy state agency. What Box Elder County, Utah’s fight over a 40,000-acre data center...
A Holocaust scholar asks: 'Israel, what went wrong?'
Omer Bartov was born on an Israeli kibbutz, grew up committed to Zionist ideals, and is now professor of holocaust and genocide studies at Brown University. But in his new...
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When thinking ‘inside the box’ is better
You’ve heard the phrase "think outside the box." But what if constraints and limitations actually make us happier and more creative?
Why the tech world is ‘tokenmaxxing'
There’s a new word floating around Silicon Valley and the AI world: 'tokenmaxxing.' It means consuming as many units of AI as possible and often racking up multibillion dollar bills....
How can you be drunk without drinking?
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Seattle's new socialist mayor has big plans
Seattle Mayor Katie Wilson had no prior political experience. She took over as the city faces an affordability crisis and a homelessness emergency. How's she doing roughly three months into...
The might and magic of human muscles
Our muscles power us -- from the tissue that pumps blood from our heart to the tiny fibers that give us goosebumps. How exactly do muscles work — and how...