![]() I particularly love that we are faster, broader and deeper than we were - both digitally and on the air." "This is a far more collaborative newsroom than the one I walked into. "It's been the craziest of times from the beginning until the very end," Samuel said of his NPR experience. In a brief interview, Samuel said he arrived at NPR the day before then President Donald Trump fired FBI Director Jim Comey. He got his start at The Village Voice in New York. He also reported for the The Roanoke Times & World News, The Philadelphia Inquirer, The St. Prior to joining NPR, he was a politics editor at the Washington Post responsible for its coverage of the White House and Congress. Samuel is known within NPR as an affable figure who operates with confidence born of decades of Washington experience. journalists are planning to stage a walkout next week to protest the compensation for its chief executive and the slashing cuts to the chain's newsrooms. It has been hit by the problems in the newspaper industry and by a crushing debt burden born of the financing by which GateHouse Media, a community-newspaper company, swallowed the old Gannett Company.Īt USA Today, Samuel replaces Nicole Carroll, who departed earlier this year. Gannett's challenges are, if anything, more severe. Samuel will depart a national broadcast network with vast reach and its own financial strains: NPR recently underwent serious cutbacks that included a 10-percent reduction in staff due to a collapse of podcast sponsorships. ![]() USA Today's parent company, Gannett, has cut 54 percent of its staff over the past four years, according to Jon Schleuss, president of the News Guild, which represents hundreds of journalists throughout the company, though not at USA Today. Samuel, currently NPR's vice president of newsgathering and executive editor, will inherit a once-proud news title devastated by cuts. ![]() USA Today has named Terence Samuel, a veteran political journalist who has helped to lead NPR's newsroom since 2017, to be its next editor in chief. ![]()
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