Tuesday Talk: Terence Samuel

Managing Editor, National Public Radio

Changes in Journalism Over a Lifetime in the News A virtual talk with NPR's managing editor, Terence Samuel

This talk will take place virtually on the library's YouTube channel from 7-8pm. Q&A from the audience will follow the talk.

Terry Samuel, who has daily oversight of the newsgathering operation at NPR, will discuss how journalism has changed over the course of his career, from work at The Village Voice to The Root.com to newspapers in St. Louis, Philadelphia, and Washington, DC.

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From 2011 to 2017, Terry Samuel was a politics editor at The Washington Post, overseeing White House and congressional coverage, and before that he was the congressional Managing Editor at the National Journal. He began his career as a writing fellow at the Village Voice in New York and later was a reporter at The Roanoke Times & World News, a national correspondent at both The Philadelphia Inquirer and the St. Louis Post-Dispatch and chief congressional correspondent at US News & World Report.

He was a director of editorial programming for AOL Black Voices before joining the Washington Post Company to help launch TheRoot.com in 2007.

A graduate of the City College of New York, Terry is the author of the 2010 book, The Upper House: A Journey Behind the Closed Doors of the United States Senate. Some of his work as a political columnist was anthologized in Best American Political Writing of 2009.