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Washington D.C.—The Center for Public Integrity has named Ellen Weiss executive editor, effective Oct. 3. Weiss will oversee the Center’s domestic investigations and editorial staff.
She comes to the Center with deep journalism and management experience as former senior vice president of news at NPR. There Weiss managed 36 bureaus, more than 400 U.S. and international staffers, and a $75 million budget. Under Weiss’ leadership, the audience for NPR.org grew from 4 million unique monthly visitors in 2006 to 12 million in 2010. During that time frame, she also oversaw a 10 percent growth in audience for NPR’s news programs to more than 27 million weekly listeners.
Weiss also created and helped lead the NPR News investigative reporting unit and the Planet Money economic reporting team.
Weiss spent 29 years at the public radio network, leading the NPR news division for five years. For 12 years, she was executive producer of
All Things Considered and served as senior editor of the National Desk where she organized and led domestic news coverage for all NPR programs and NPR.org. Weiss had a major role in leading the network’s coverage of the 9/11 attacks and edited large award-winning investigative reporting projects, including reports on abuses that led to changes in U.S. government detention center policies, and reports on soldiers with post-traumatic stress disorder that sparked Senate and Pentagon investigations.
During her time leading NPR news, the public radio news network won a multitude of prestigious awards, including Peabody Awards, Alfred I. DuPont-Columbia University Awards, Robert F. Kennedy Awards, George Polk Awards, Investigative Reporters and Editors Awards, and Overseas Press Club Awards among others.
Weiss currently serves as a project consultant for Pew Research Center.
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