Kelly McBride
Kelly McBride is a writer, teacher and one of the country's leading voices on media ethics. Since 2002, she has been on the faculty of The Poynter Institute, a global nonprofit dedicated to excellence in journalism, where she now serves as its senior vice president. She is also the chair of the Craig Newmark Center for Ethics and Leadership at Poynter, which advances the quality of journalism and improves fact-based expression by training journalists and working with news organizations to hone and adopt meaningful and transparent ethics practices. Under McBride's leadership, the center serves as the journalism industry's ombudsman — a place where journalists, ethicists and citizens convene to elevate American discourse and battle disinformation and bias.
McBride was appointed as NPR's Public Editor in April 2020 as the result of a new partnership between NPR and Poynter. McBride's role as NPR's Public Editor is supported by researchers and editors from both organizations, significantly expanding the public editor's ability to respond to audience concerns and suggestions.
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An inaccurate verb choice made the reporting unclear -
A look at what's driving women of color to walk away from NPR's most prominent jobs and why it matters to listeners -
Not glorifying a shooter isn't enough to ensure good journalism -
The Capitol breach changed journalist vocabulary -
A public radio initiative to bolster local reporting paid off in dividends -
How a startup show grows in a legacy organization -
Why is it OK for a senior correspondent to be close friends with a key source on her beat, but it's not OK for her colleague to march in a Black Lives Matter protest? -
'Without evidence' is a new catchphrase at NPR. It prompts a deeper question about whose statements are fact-checked. -
A close look at a week of storytelling around the massive blast that destroyed Beirut tells us how NPR could improve. -
The conflict in Portland between federal agents and protesters escalated rapidly. As NPR responded, doing 40 stories over 15 days, some audience members saw bias.
