1-30-2013
NPR News has hired longtime Baltimore Sun investigative reporter and editor Robert Little to lead its investigative team, beginning March 4th. As senior editor for investigations, Little will work with reporters, producers and editors to develop investigative stories, and will oversee NPR?s partnerships with other non-profit news organizations doing high-level investigative work.
Little spent 15 years at The Baltimore Sun; since 2010, he's been the paper?s Investigative and Enterprise Editor. Under Little?s leadership, The Sun recently published a series of articles uncovering widespread flaws in Baltimore?s speed camera network, which has since been shut down. Before that, his team created a unique database of tax records that exposed millions of dollars in improper discounts. Little also designed and launched the watchdog blog Sun Investigates, and oversaw the newsroom?s training program for computer-assisted reporting, and ethics and libel law. As one of The Sun?s senior editors, he managed the organization?s main newsgathering departments and played a leading role in guiding all of its coverage and in planning the daily newspaper.
