Mark Greenblatt and crew from Scripps at the 74th Annual Peabody Awards

Ellen Weiss (born January 30, 1959) is an American

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and four-time

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winner. She joined

National Public Radio National Public Radio (NPR) is an American public broadcasting organization headquartered in Washington, D.C., with its NPR West headquarters in Culver City, California. It serves as a national Radio syndication, syndicator to a network of more ...

(NPR) in 1982, eventually running the NPR News national desk and serving as executive producer of the NPR News magazine ''

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''. She was named NPR vice president for news in April 2007 and held that post until January 2011. She was executive editor at the nonprofit Center for Public Integrity in 2013 she became Washington, D.C., bureau chief and vice-president for the

E. W. Scripps Company The E. W. Scripps Company, also known as Scripps, is an American broadcasting company founded in 1878 as a chain of daily newspapers by Edward Willis "E. W." Scripps and his sister, Ellen Browning Scripps. It was also formerly a media conglom ...

. In 2015, she won her fourth Peabody Award for a story about soldiers discharged from the military for sexual crimes who evade registering as sex offenders after leaving the military. Weiss currently serves as the vice president of the Fund for Investigative Journalism. She attended

Scarsdale High School Scarsdale High School (SHS) is a four-year public high school in Scarsdale, New York, United States, a coterminous town and village in Westchester County, New York. It is a part of the Scarsdale Union Free School District. The school was founde ...

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, and is a

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graduate. She lives in

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with her husband,

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David Saperstein. They are the parents of musician Daniel Saperstein.

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