Neal Joseph Conan III (November 26, 1949 – August 10, 2021) was an American radio journalist, producer, editor, and correspondent.

[5] His father, Neal Jr., worked as a physician and headed the medical center at the American University of Beirut; his mother, Theodora (Blake), was a housewife.

[1][7] He and Chris Hedges of The New York Times were reporting on a Shia rebellion centered in Basra, Iraq.

[9] In 2000, Conan took a break from his work as a broadcaster to serve as the stadium play-by-play baseball announcer for the Aberdeen Arsenal.

[13] NPR announced that it was ending the 12-year run of Talk of the Nation on March 29, 2013, stating that Conan would "step away from the rigors of daily journalism.

[17] In January 2017, Conan launched a new radio show and podcast, Truth, Politics, and Power, focused on the Trump administration.

[21] He was later in a domestic partnership with American travel writer, poet, and essayist Gretel Ehrlich, who survives him.

As a result, he was featured a number of times as a sympathetic journalist in stories Claremont wrote for Marvel and DC Comics, such as the 1988 X-Men storyline "The Fall of the Mutants".