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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A wave of attacks, seemingly coordinated, struck security forces in predominantly Shiite areas. The attackers fired weapons and exploded bombs. -
Some of the Occupy protesters who famously got face fulls of pepper spray last November on the campus of University of California Davis have taken their case against the school to federal court. -
A museum first proposed in 1915 by black veterans from the Civil War is finally under construction on the National Mall in Washington. The Smithsonian's National Museum of African American History and Culture is scheduled to open in 2015. -
If he's found guilty of ordering the deaths of protesters last year, Egypt's former president could be put to death. -
The news is being seen as another sign that the housing sector is getting healthier.
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Also: More protests in Afghanistan over burning of Qurans; Greek lawmakers rush to enact austerity measures; GOP presidential candidates gather for another debate.
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During an In Performance at the White House concert featuring B.B. King, Buddy Guy, Mick Jagger, Jeff Beck and other blues greats, the president sang along briefly. Catch the video. -
Meanwhile, Republican presidential contender Mitt Romney is also said to be about to unveil a new tax-cut plan.
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The commander of NATO forces in Afghanistan has apologized. But the anger remains. -
Troops loyal to President Bashar Assad reportedly executed nearly 30 young men in one incident. In the city of Homs, two journalists reportedly died when the building they were in was hit by shells.
