Corey Flintoff is an evening newscaster for National Public Radio (NPR). He writes and delivers six hourly newscasts each night as part of NPR's newsmagazine All Things Considered.

Flintoff has been a newscaster and reporter with NPR's Washington, National, and Foreign Desks since 1990. Prior to joining NPR, Flintoff was executive producer for Alaska Public Radio Network (APRN), supervising the production of all news programming and hosting an evening newsmagazine. While at APRN, Flintoff filed freelance reports for NPR, the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, Monitor Radio, and the Associated Press. He won a 1989 Corporation for Public Broadcasting Silver Award for his coverage of the Exxon Valdez oil spill.

Prior to APRN, Flintoff worked as a reporter, editor, and producer for KYUK-TV/Bethel, Alaska, and KSKA-FM/Anchorage. While at KYUK, he wrote and produced a number of television documentaries, including Eyes of the Spirit and They Never Asked Our Fathers.

Flintoff's first radio experience was at a bilingual English-Yup'ik Eskimo station in Bethel, Alaska, where he learned enough Yup'ik to announce the station identification information. He has also been a novelist, dog-musher, and commercial herring fisherman.

Flintoff earned a bachelor's degree from the University of California at Berkeley, and a master's degree from the University of Chicago, both in English literature. Born in Fairbanks, Alaska, he now lives in Washington, DC, with his wife, Diana Derby, and their daughter, Claire.

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