Edith Chapin is an American journalist and the current Editor in Chief and acting Chief Content Officer of

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. She was previously the senior supervising editor of the NPR News Foreign Desk; prior to working at NPR, she spent 25 years at

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Early life

The daughter of a Foreign Service officer, Chapin spent years living in Brazil, Ethiopia, and Guatemala. Chapin attended

The Masters School The Masters School (colloquially known as Masters), is a Private school, private, coeducational boarding school and day college preparatory school located in Dobbs Ferry, New York, Dobbs Ferry, New York (state), New York. Its campus is locat ...

from 1979 to 1983, before obtaining a

Bachelor of Journalism The Bachelor of Journalism (B.J.) degree is a degree awarded at some universities to students who have studied journalism in a three or four year undergraduate program. In the United States, some schools that do not award the B.J. degree instead c ...

degree from Northwestern University's

Medill School of Journalism The Medill School of Journalism (branded as Northwestern Medill; formally the Medill School of Journalism, Media, Integrated Marketing Communications) is the journalism school of Northwestern University. It offers both undergraduate and graduat ...

in 1986.

Career

After graduating from Northwestern, Chapin joined CNN. She spent 25 years working at the network, eventually achieving the position of Vice President and Deputy Bureau Chief of CNN's Washington, D.C. bureau. During her career at CNN, Chapin was present in New York City during the

September 11 attacks The September 11 attacks, also known as 9/11, were four coordinated Islamist terrorist suicide attacks by al-Qaeda against the United States in 2001. Nineteen terrorists hijacked four commercial airliners, crashing the first two into ...

. She subsequently directed all coverage of the attacks and their aftermath. She contributed to a 2002 book recounting the events of September 11, ''Covering Catastrophe''. In 2012, she joined NPR as the senior supervising editor of the NPR News Foreign Desk. In 2015, she was promoted to executive editor of NPR.

Awards

Chapin received a

Peabody Award The George Foster Peabody Awards (or simply Peabody Awards or the Peabodys) program, named for the American businessman and philanthropist George Foster Peabody, George Peabody, honor what are described as the most powerful, enlightening, and in ...

for her coverage of

Hurricane Katrina Hurricane Katrina was a powerful, devastating and historic tropical cyclone that caused 1,392 fatalities and damages estimated at $125 billion in late August 2005, particularly in the city of New Orleans and its surrounding area. ...

in 2005.

References

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