Robert Little (journalist)

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Robert Little is an American journalist who is the senior investigations editor for NPR. He previously served as investigations and enterprise editor and earlier, a reporter, for The Baltimore Sun . [1]

Little is a Baltimore native who first worked for the Sun in 1979 as a 13-year-old newspaper delivery boy. [1] [2] He earned his B.S. in mass communication from Towson State University in 1991 and a M.S. in journalism from the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism. [1] [2] [3] [4]

Little began his reporting career at the Carroll County Times in Westminster, Maryland, where he was a political reporter, before moving to the Virginian-Pilot in Norfolk, Virginia in 1993, where he served as state capital correspondent in Richmond. [1] [2] [4] Little joining the Sun in 1998 as a business reporter covering transportation. [1] [4]

He reported on the defense industry and the Pentagon before becoming national correspondent for the Sun. [1] [4] Little has covered the September 11 attacks, the funeral of Pope John Paul II, the London subway bombings, Hurricane Katrina, Baghdad during the Iraq War, and the 2010 Haiti earthquake. [1] Little's reporting on shortages of medical supplies for troops fighting in Iraq "led to immediate policy changes and corrective measures by the U.S. Army." [4]

Little won a 2006 George Polk Award. [1] [2] Little is a past finalist for a Gerald Loeb Award. [4]

In 2013, he joined NPR as the network's senior investigations editor. [5] In 2021, Little won the Pulitzer Prize for Audio Reporting for his work on the No Compromise podcast with NPR colleagues Lisa Hagen, Chris Haxel, and Graham Smith. [6]

Little lives in Towson, Maryland with his wife, Ann; the couple has five children. [1] [2]

Little co-hosted NPR's White Lies podcast. [7] [8] [9]

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References

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 "Robert Little Biography." The Baltimore Sun.
  2. 1 2 3 4 5 "Robert Little." Knight Digital Media Center.
  3. ↑ "Fellows and Editors: Robert Little." International Reporting Project, Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS), Johns Hopkins University.
  4. 1 2 3 4 5 6 "Past Finalists: Robert Little." UCLA Anderson School of Management.
  5. ↑ Brown, Emerson (January 29, 2013). "NPR News names Robert Little Senior Editor for Investigations". NPR. Archived from the original on January 30, 2013. Retrieved July 14, 2017.
  6. ↑ "The 2021 Pulitzer Prize Winner in Audio Reporting". pulitzer.org . Retrieved June 17, 2021.
  7. ↑ "Finalist: Andrew Beck Grace, Chip Brantley, Graham Smith, Nicole Beemsterboer and Robert Little of NPR". pulitzer.org. Retrieved 2022-07-13.
  8. ↑ "NPR podcast 'White Lies' named Pulitzer Prize finalist". al. 2020-05-05. Retrieved 2022-07-13.
  9. ↑ Lohr, Nikki (2019-07-02). "White Lies Is a True Crime Masterpiece". Podcast Review. Retrieved 2022-07-13.
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