Chuck Holmes
Chuck Holmes is Deputy Managing Editor for NPR News. He works closely with NPR's Arts, Business, International, National, Science and Washington Desks to coordinate and facilitate daily news coverage and long-term planning for NPR News.
Prior to this role, Holmes served as Supervising Senior Editor of NPR's Morning Edition. He was responsible for the editorial direction and integrity of the show and shepherded major projects like Steve Inskeep's Revolution Road trip across northern Africa and David Greene's Family Matters.series on financial literacy among America's "sandwich generation."
Holmes began work at NPR in April 2009 as the Foreign Editor for Digital News, where he assisted in planning and directing coverage of the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, and coverage of earthquakes in Haiti and Chile. He also steered multimedia storytelling projects from India and Pakistan, Afghanistan, Mongolia, Peru, and the Mekong River valley.
Prior to joining NPR, Holmes was foreign editor of Cox Newspapers and earlier served as a foreign correspondent, posted in Jerusalem and Moscow, for the Atlanta-based newspaper chain.
Throughout his career, Holmes has gained national recognition for his reporting and editing. His reporting on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, the war in Kosovo, and the Rwanda genocide and civil war all earned industry awards. At NPR, he shared an Edward R. Murrow Award for Afghanistan coverage and was part of the digital team when NPR.org earned a Peabody Award for excellence in 2010.
A native of Tennessee and avid marathon runner, Holmes received a B.A. in Journalism from The George Washington University.
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Correspondents, editors and producers from our newsroom share the pieces that have kept them reading, using the #NPRreads hashtag. Each weekend, we highlight some of the best stories. -
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Also this week: How classic video games are teaching computers to learn.
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Also this week: a look at President Obama's decision to keep more U.S. troops in Afghanistan.
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We highlight a 160-mile cycling race, reminiscences of an interview with the Oklahoma City bomber, the Finnish prison system, the nuclear deal with Iran, and the meaning of calling someone "trash."
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From the people on our money to the effects of calling someone black, this week, we bring you four reads that illuminate a bit of history or pieces of regulation you may not have known about. -
After the Arab Spring, Saudi rulers still have a firm hand on the country and its oil wealth. But in a country known for its restrictions, many people here are speaking openly about the need for democratic change.
