Catherine Laidlaw is the deputy chief of NPR's National Desk. Based in Washington, D.C., she oversees the desk's daily and long-term news-gathering operations for audio and digital platforms, working with journalists in bureaus across the U.S. The desk also works closely with hundreds of journalists across NPR's nationwide network of Member stations.
Laidlaw has been the lead editor on topics including abortion, housing, criminal justice and immigration. Her work has been recognized with a Society of Professional Journalists' Sigma Delta Chi Award, a Peabody Award, an Edward R. Murrow Award, a National Headliner Award, a Gracie Award and as a finalist by the Dart Awards for Excellence in Coverage of Trauma.
Before moving into her current role, Laidlaw served as a Supervising Editor at Morning Edition and as acting Director of NPR.org, where she oversaw NPR's digital coverage of the coronavirus pandemic and the repercussions of racial injustice.
Prior to NPR, she was an editor at The San Diego Union-Tribune, the San Francisco Examiner and the San Francisco Chronicle as well as a managing editor at The Industry Standard.
She graduated from the University of Missouri's School of Journalism.
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In a note to newsroom staff, Catherine Laidlaw, Deputy National Desk Editor, Ammad Omar, Chief National Editor, and Russell Lewis,...
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Becky Sullivan is joining NPR's National Desk as a sports correspondent. A native of Kansas City, she pledges to set aside her...
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Elissa Nadworny moves to National Desk to cover reproductive rights and the surrounding debate. -
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John B. Gurdon and Shinya Yamanaka discovered that mature and specialized cells "can be reprogrammed to become immature cells capable... -
An analysis from The Associated Press, based on data from the Drug Enforcement Agency, shows how sales of oxycodone and... -
U.S. medical practices bought counterfeit medicine labeled as Altuzan from a foreign supplier, the FDA says. Altuzan, which is the... -
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