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Rachel Martin started her new gig as a co-host of NPR's 

 today, and if you read between the lines of her interview with 

, the public radio newspaper, one gets the sense that the "inner-Beltway mentality" continues to crumble.

"I think now, especially in the wake of this election, public media has a mandate," she says. "It’s an integral part of our mission to get out into the country, to parts of the country that we don’t get to usually, and understand what’s going on for people in those places and tell the stories of the people who live there. And so I’m really looking forward to being able to do that."

With three co-hosts, one is usually away doing reporting. Martin clearly favors the idea of a more in-depth relationship with "flyover country."

https://twitter.com/rachelnpr/status/805574372966666241

What communities? One on the U.S.-Mexico border, one in coal country, and one unnamed city, maybe in the mountain West, she says. Sorry, Minnesota.

a separate interview with the Columbia Journalism Review

, Martin says a major challenge is giving more airtime to individuals and groups that some may not want to hear.

Martin says the show will also be doing more popular culture stories, something that is not a specialty of current host Steve Inskeep, she says.

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Rachel Martin started her new gig as a co-host of NPR's Morning Edition today, and if you read between the lines of her interview with Current, the public radio newspaper, one gets the sense that the 'inner-Beltway mentality' continues to crumble.

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