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We’re thrilled to announce that Cheryl Corley has been employed as eternal Midwest Bureau Chief, environment friendly immediately, after an inside search.
The Midwest Bureau Chief is a vital place, linking the NPR newsroom to an entire lot of member station newsrooms all through 9 states inside the space. In her time serving in an showing functionality, Cheryl has elevated the voices of quite a few member station reporters, bringing essential tales to a nationwide viewers.
Cheryl has been a reporter and correspondent for NPR for 28 years, masking all types of tales from her residence base in Chicago.
Cheryl has moreover been a key collaborator as part of a NPR’s felony justice vertical—the place she was able to delve into tales about juvenile justice, solitary confinement, and the way in which ladies may change policing. She’s moreover coated communities ravaged by violence, and those that have labored to regain their footing – whether or not or not it was after a capturing at a New York grocery retailer, in a South Carolina church or on the streets of Chicago or Minneapolis.
She’s moreover been heard as a each day substitute host for All Points Thought-about Weekends, Morning Model, Inform Me Additional and Info and Notes. “I’ve been proper right here a really very long time,” she says.
Cheryl offers: “Now I’ll use which have and expertise in my new operate as Midwest Bureau Chief. It’s a job I’ve held on an showing basis since last August –modifying and cultivating new voices for NPR and coping with seasoned NPR and member station reporters. So, within the occasion you’ve heard a few good Midwest story, know a reporter who should get on the nationwide air—ship them my method! Wanting forward to working with them and making NPR sound larger than ever.”
Please be a part of me in congratulating Cheryl. We couldn’t be happier for what this means for our safety of tales all through the Midwest, and the journalists who cowl it each day from member stations all through the world.
Furthermore – Jason DeRose will be masking religion for NPR on a brief lived undertaking until the highest of September. This could be a grant funded place. He’ll be reporting on the strategies notion shapes American public life and the strategies American life shapes non secular expression.
Jason has prolonged been NPR’s Western Bureau Chief, modifying info safety from Member station reporters and freelancers in California, Washington, Oregon, Nevada, Alaska and Hawaii. He moreover edited safety of religion and LGBTQ+ rights for the Nationwide Desk. Earlier, he was an editor on NPR’s Enterprise Desk and on the earlier NPR mid-day info journal Day to Day.
Sooner than coming to NPR in 2008, Jason had been a reporter and editor at Member stations in Chicago, Seattle, Minneapolis and Tampa. His work has obtained fairly a number of awards, along with from the Religion Info Affiliation, the Religion Communicators Council, the Native American Journalists Affiliation and NLGJA: The Affiliation of LGBTQ+ Journalists.
Open air of public radio, Jason labored as an oral historic previous interviewer on the US Holocaust Memorial Museum, as a coach on the Worldwide Center for Journalists and as a nursing residence chaplain. He taught journalism ethics, radio reporting, multimedia storytelling and religion reporting at DePaul School in Chicago and at Northwestern School’s Medill School of Journalism.
We’re thrilled that Jason might be succesful to sort out this undertaking, and know he’ll take care of it with aplomb.
In Jason’s absence, Eric Westervelt will be serving as showing Western Bureau Chief until mid-June, at which degree Ravenna Koenig will slide into the seat from her residence base in Seattle, Washington. Every had been chosen after an inside search.
Eric is a long-time NPR correspondent primarily based inside the San Francisco Bay Area. For a decade as a worldwide correspondent, Westervelt served as NPR reporter and bureau chief in Baghdad, Jerusalem, and Berlin. Nearer to residence, he’s simply currently coated factors involving policing and psychological properly being in San Francisco, and the pitfalls of utmost local weather on the West Coast.
Sooner than changing into a member of NPR, Westervelt labored as a reporter in Oregon and the Pacific Northwest, reported for the printed model of the Christian Science Monitor, Monitor Radio, and labored as a info director and reporter in New Hampshire for NHPR.
Ravenna Koenig is an NPR veteran, presently engaged on the Custom Desk. She’s beforehand labored on assorted displays all through the neighborhood, along with Morning Model and Weekend Model. She’s completed all of it – from modifying, to producing, to directing, to reporting for displays all through the neighborhood.
After quite a few years at NPR, she joined Alaska’s Vitality Desk, working as an energy and environment reporter. She reported every from Fairbanks, along with Alaska’s northernmost metropolis of Utqiaġvik, which serves as a hub for worldwide Arctic evaluation and will be on the doorway line of native climate change. She’s now in hotter if not drier climates, and we couldn’t be happier to have her inside the essential operate.
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