USA Today appoints Samuel EIC

Terence Samuel will join USA Today as its next editor in chief. In his new role, he will replace Nicole Carroll, who departed earlier this year.

Currently, Samuel is VP and executive editor at NPR, where he has worked for six years. He joined as deputy managing editor and then served as managing editor for news. He is also a former Ferris Professor of Journalism at Princeton University.

He joined The Washington Post in 2007 to help launch TheRoot.com as its deputy editor. He then served as deputy national political editor of the Post. He was a chief congressional correspondent at the U.S. News & World Report and a Washington correspondent at the St. Louis Post-Dispatch.

He was a staff writer at the Roanoke Times and The Philadelphia Inquirer, where he also held the post of national correspondent.

He also wrote a politics column for the American Prospect for six years and his work is featured in Best American Political Writing of 2009.

Samuel graduated from City College of New York.

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