NPR’s editor-in-chief to step down days after Congress cuts $1.1bn in funding

NPR’s editor-in-chief, Edith Chapin, on 9 October 2024. Photograph: Craig Barritt/Getty Images for IWMF

The editor-in-chief of the US public radio network NPR has told colleagues that she is stepping down later this year.

Edith Chapin’s announcement comes just days after federal lawmakers voted in support of Donald Trump’s plan to claw back $1.1bn from the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, the umbrella organization that funds both NPR and the non-commercial TV network PBS.