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American journalist
Nancy Barnes
(born 1961) is an American journalist and newspaper editor. She is currently the editor of
The Boston Globe
.
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She is also a member of the
Peabody Awards
board of directors, which is presented by the
Henry W. Grady College of Journalism and Mass Communication
.
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Education
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Barnes earned a bachelor's degree in international relations from the
University of Virginia
and an
MBA
from the
University of North Carolina
.
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Career
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Before joining
The Boston Globe
in 2023, Barnes was the chief news executive at
NPR
.
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Prior jobs include editor of the
Minneapolis Star Tribune
from 2003 to 2013 and editor and executive vice president of news for the
Houston Chronicle
between 2013 and 2018.
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In 2013, while Barnes was editor at the
Star Tribune
the paper won the
Pulitzer Prize
for local news for reporting on infant deaths at
day care
facilities. It also won the
Gerald Loeb Award
for Breaking News and two 2013
Edward R. Murrow Awards
for multimedia journalism.
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While she led the
Chronicle
the paper won the 2015 Pulitzer Prize for commentary. It was a Pulitzer finalist in 2017 for reports on the denial of special education to tens of thousands of Texas students, and a 2018 finalist for its reporting on
Hurricane Harvey
.
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At NPR, Barnes succeeded
Michael Oreskes
after he was fired over sexual harassment allegations. Barnes is the fourteenth person and fourth woman to head NPR's news division since the position was defined in 1979.
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On November 14, 2022,
The Boston Globe
announced that Barnes would become its 13th editor and the first woman to lead the
Globe
’s newsroom.
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