Chief Business Editor

The role

The Chief Business Editor leads NPR's business and economics coverage on all platforms. This person supervises a team of business reporters, correspondents and editors, and coordinates closely with Morning Edition, All Things Considered and the Planet Money podcast team.

What you will do

• Lead NPR's business coverage through distinctive stories, daily news, enterprise and scoops
• Identify and sharpen areas of coverage across broadcast and digital platforms
• Supervise assignments and give editorial guidance to staff, station and freelance reporters, and production staff
• Decide approaches to stories, subjects and interviewees across the newsroom
• Track station, freelance and staff submissions and assignments
• Audition speculative submissions from stations and freelancers for airing
• Make hiring and salary recommendations for staff, in consultation with the Executive Editor
• Prepare performance reviews for assigned staff
• Help plan and monitor the business unit's annual budget and current spending
• Ensure all aired and published material meets high standards of accuracy, fairness and probity

Required qualifications

• At least 15 years' experience as a news reporter or editor
• Demonstrated experience covering business and economics
• Demonstrated experience overseeing editorial output for social media and digital platforms
• Demonstrated collaborative approach to newsgathering and story presentation across platforms
• Considerable skill in both news and feature editing
• Previous managerial experience
• Bachelor's degree or equivalent combination of education and work experience

Nice to have

• Broadcast and specifically radio news experience
• Familiarity with the NPR member station network

Benefits

• Comprehensive benefits for employees and dependents
• Health and wellness access
• Paid time off
• Financial well-being programs
• Medical, dental and vision plans
• Life and accidental death and dismemberment insurance
• Long-term and short-term disability insurance
• Voluntary retirement savings

Before you apply

• Submit a resume and cover letter by 11:59 pm EST on Monday, December 7th, 2026
• The cover letter should share your philosophy for leading a Business desk and your top focus areas for the desk in 2027
• This is an NPR editorial role covered by the NPR Ethics Handbook

About the company

NPR produces news, information and music programming in partnership with hundreds of independent public radio stations across the nation. Its work reaches millions of people worldwide.