Mark Memmott
Mark Memmott is NPR's supervising senior editor for Standards & Practices. In that role, he's a resource for NPR's journalists – helping them raise the right questions as they do their work and uphold the organization's standards.
As the NPR Ethics Handbook states, the Standards & Practices editor is "charged with cultivating an ethical culture throughout our news operation." This means he or she coordinates discussion on how we apply our principles and monitors our decision-making practices to ensure we're living up to our standards."
Before becoming Standards & Practices editor, Memmott was one of the hosts of NPR's "The Two-Way" news blog, which he helped to launch when he came to NPR in 2009. It focused on breaking news, analysis, and the most compelling stories being reported by NPR News and other news media.
Prior to joining NPR, Memmott worked for nearly 25 years as a reporter and editor at USA Today. He focused on a range of coverage from politics, foreign affairs, economics, and the media. He reported from places across the United States and the world, including half a dozen trips to Afghanistan in 2002-2003.
During his time at USA Today, Memmott, helped launch and lead three USAToday.com news blogs: "On Deadline," "The Oval" and "On Politics," the site's 2008 presidential campaign blog.
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When reporting about this, frame it as "evidence," not proof, that the aides to the president were "asked to lie." And attribute the evidence to Mueller's investigation.
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We are not going to repeat on the air a quote attributed to President Trump in the Mueller report in which he dropped an F-bomb.
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Today is as important as any to protecting NPR's reputation as a trusted news source. How we behave on social media is going to matter a lot.
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That supposedly clever line has been used before — many times. We do not need to do that.
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Also, it's important to get them right from the start – in DACS, in scripts and in notes that show up in story collections. A mistake in any one of those places could find its way to the audience.
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Be skeptical. Be very skeptical.
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Deputy Managing Editors are in charge of key aspects of our coverage.
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Former Rep. Beto O'Rourke would be "O'Rourke." Just as Sen. Bernie Sanders would be "Sanders" and Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez would be "Ocasio-Cortez," not "AOC."
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Here's who needs to be involved and who needs to sign off when we're reporting another media outlet's important scoop that's based on an unnamed source or sources.
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Fair warning: Anyone who says or writes "daylight savings" will get a robocall from Korva at 2 a.m. Sunday.