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]
References edit
- ^ a b c d e f g h i "Robert Little Biography." The Baltimore Sun.
- ^ a b c d e "Robert Little." Knight Digital Media Center.
- ^ "Fellows and Editors: Robert Little." International Reporting Project, Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS), Johns Hopkins University.
- ^ a b c d e f "Past Finalists: Robert Little." UCLA Anderson School of Management.
- ^ 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.
- ^ "The 2021 Pulitzer Prize Winner in Audio Reporting". pulitzer.org. Retrieved June 17, 2021.
- ^ "Finalist: Andrew Beck Grace, Chip Brantley, Graham Smith, Nicole Beemsterboer and Robert Little of NPR". pulitzer.org. Retrieved 2022-07-13.
- ^ "NPR podcast 'White Lies' named Pulitzer Prize finalist". al. 2020-05-05. Retrieved 2022-07-13.
- ^ Lohr, Nikki (2019-07-02). "White Lies Is a True Crime Masterpiece". Podcast Review. Retrieved 2022-07-13.
External links edit
- Profile from The Baltimore Sun