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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After 15 months, management and the musicians have agreed on a contract that will settle their dispute. The performers agreed to pay cuts and to pay more of their health care expenses. Management did not get concessions that were as large as they first sought. -
The famed hall's five full-time stagehands went on strike, and that forced the cancellation of one gala. Tax records show their average total compensation is more than $400,000 each a year. The dispute was over whether they'll also be working in the hall's new Education Wing. -
Police officials can't remember the last time a whole day went by without someone being shot, stabbed or slashed by someone else. But that's just what happened as the week began. The sharp drop in violent crime from decades before continues. -
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, with an analysis of test scores from across the nation, found more evidence of suspicious improvements in students' performance.
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During his brief run for the 2012 GOP presidential nomination, Herman Cain became well known for his 9-9-9 tax plan, the allegations of sexual harassment that threatened to drown out his message and his highly unusual videos. He's out with another.
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It's time to ask who the champion will be: Kansas, Kentucky, Louisville or Ohio State? The championship game is scheduled for April 2, in New Orleans. -
Also: Wife of soldier accused in deaths of 17 Afghan civilians says it's "unbelievable" he did it; U.S. and China map out response to North Korea; Cheney's operation underscores heart transplant issues.
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Marchers will gather outside as the Sanford, Fla., city commission hears from the 17-year-old boy's parents. They want the man who killed him arrested. The case has attracted national attention and reignited discussions about race relations. -
Though Rick Santorum won in Louisiana and shows no sign of giving up his battle with front runner Mitt Romney, there's a case to be made that Republican Party leaders want the nomination battle to be over sooner rather than later. -
Seven children and two adults died from injuries suffered in Saturday's blaze, the worst fire ever in Charleston, W.Va.
