Ellen Weiss — Chief of Washington Bureau and Vice President at E.W. Scripps Company

Ms. Ellen Weiss has been the Chief of Washington Bureau and Vice President of The E. W. Scripps Company since February 11, 2013. Ms. Weiss joined Scripps from The Center for Public Integrity. She served as Senior Vice President of News at National Public Radio, Inc. until January 14, 2011. She oversees NPR's worldwide journalism operations, including 18 domestic and 18 foreign bureaus, more than 400 staff members, more than 50 hours of news programming weekly, and NPR's award-winning investigations, longform series and other special reporting. She served as Vice President of News at National Public Radio, Inc. since April 2007. Ms. Weiss joined NPR News in 1982 and served as its Acting Vice President for News since October 2006. Ms. Weiss, an award-winning broadcast news executive who served as head of the NPR News National Desk and Executive Producer of the top-rated daily NPR News magazine All Things Considered. From 2001 to 2006, she served as Senior Editor of the National Desk, managing 80 reporters, editors and producers covering all national issues including politics, business, religion, education, immigration, police and prisons. She oversaw coverage of major national events, among them, NPR News' critically-acclaimed work covering 9/11, Hurricanes Katrina and Rita and the 2002 and 2004 elections. Ms. Weiss also edited many of NPR News' investigations including Daniel Zwerdling's award-winning coverage of the use of dogs in detention centers, Carrie Kahn's report on mercy killings at New Orleans hospitals during Hurricane Katrina and John McChesney's investigation into the final hours of the only Abu Ghraib detainee whose death was ruled a homicide. For 12 years, she served as Executive Producer of the daily NPR News magazine All Things Considered. She was responsible for its broadcasts from around the U.S. and the world - including Berlin during the fall of communism, San Francisco after the 1989 earthquake, L.A. in the midst of the 1992 riots and Jerusalem during the 1996 elections. Ms. Weiss also served as a senior producer, editor, field producer and director at NPR News. She has been part of the NPR News teams that have received such honors as Alfred I. duPont-Columbia University Awards, George Foster Peabody Awards, Investigative Reporters and Editors Awards, Robert F. Kennedy Journalism Awards, Overseas Press Club Awards and American Women in Radio and Television Awards. Ms. Weiss is a graduate of Smith College with a B.A. in international relations.