NPR Names Rodriguez VP/Exec. Editor
• NPR announced that, after a comprehensive global search, Eva Rodriguez has been named as NPR’s Vice President and Executive Editor, beginning September 11.
In this leadership role Rodriguez will oversee NPR’s global 200-plus-person newsgathering operation including reporters based internationally, across the country and in Washington DC. She will serve as the senior editorial leader for all of NPR’s platforms, news desks and beats, including desk editors, reporters, correspondents and associated production staff.
The announcement was made by Edith Chapin, NPR’s SVP for News and Editor in Chief, who said, “Eva’s award-winning journalism career is deep and varied with extensive experience in digital media and a strong commitment to making sure the audience is front and center. The breadth and depth of Eva’s experience both in areas covered and organizations she has worked in will serve us well. In addition, she has a terrific sense of humor, which is always welcome.”
Rodriguez is currently Editor in Chief of The Fuller Project, a global nonprofit newsroom focusing on coverage of the interconnected issues affecting women. Before that she spent 14 years at The Washington Post, most recently as the Deputy Foreign Editor. Rodriguez earlier served as the Legal Affairs and Congress Editor for The New York Times and was a Justice Department reporter for The Wall Street Journal. She started her career at the Miami Review.
“I have loved and respected NPR since long before I thought of becoming a journalist,” Rodriguez said. “It’s an honor to join forces with old friends and new colleagues to deliver the essential, the profound and the delightful to the millions who’ve loved NPR for years — and to millions more in the future. I look forward to deepening our collaboration with Member stations to produce the kind of indispensable journalism that audiences need and crave.” [Photo courtesy of The Fuller Project]
