Who's behind the news?
Who's behind the news?
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Ms. Barnes served as the SVP/News & Editorial Director of NPR from 2018 to 2022. From 2013 to 2018, she was the SVP/News for Hearst Texas Newspapers and Executive Editor of The Houston Chronicle, where the paper won its first Pulitzer Prize.
As SVP & Editor of the Minneapolis Star Tribune from 2007 to 2013, she led the newsroom to win a Pulitzer Prize in local reporting.
Ms. Barnes is a past president of the News Leaders Association and a member of the Pulitzer Prize Board.
She holds an undergraduate degree from the University of Virginia and an MBA from the University of North Carolina.
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