Eva Rodríguez has been named NPR’s Vice President and Executive Editor.
She becomes the first Latina in a top editorial role at NPR, tasked with overseeing its global 200+ person newsgathering operation, including reporters based internationally, across the country and in Washington DC.
Starting September 11, she’ll be the senior editorial leader for all of NPR’s platforms, news desks and beats, including desk editors, reporters, correspondents and associated production staff.
Rodríguez arrives to NPR from The Fuller Project, where she was Editor in Chief of the global nonprofit newsroom that focused on coverage of the interconnected issues affecting women.
She previously she spent 14 years at The Washington Post in various roles, most recently as the deputy foreign editor, overseeing coverage of Ukraine, Afghanistan, the global Covid-19 pandemic, among other important international stories.
Rodríguez has also worked for Politico, The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal and the Miami Herald.
A first-generation Cuban American, she started her career at Miami Daily Business Review.