Overview
- Evans will oversee NPR’s global newsroom across broadcast, digital, and emerging platforms.
- Since joining NPR in 2024, he led an editorial review program that added a “backstop” process for independent internal review of every story.
- Evans previously spent more than two decades at CNN, most recently serving as vice president and London bureau chief.
- Edith Chapin, who led the newsroom since 2022, had announced over the summer that she would step down as editor in chief.
- Marta McLellan Ross becomes chief of staff after leading NPR’s Policy and Representation team since 2021, working closely with CEO Katherine Maher as stations face fallout from Congress rescinding $1.1 billion and the CPB shutdown.