In a note to newsroom staff, Tony Cavin, Managing Editor Standards and Practices made the following announcement:
I am very happy to announce two great new additions to what now becomes the NPR Standards team. Meghan Ashford-Grooms and Nishant Dahiya will both join NPR on October 21 as Supervising Editors for Standards & Practices.
Meghan comes to us from the Washington Post where she was one of three founding editors of their standards desk. Prior to that, she was an editor at Kaiser Health News, a longtime NPR partner. Meghan has also worked as an editor at The Urban Institute, FiveThirtyEight and the Austin American-Statesman among others.
Meghan says that in these times "when the media struggles to maintain the trust of the public and polarization threatens to turn every outlet into a partisan tool, keeping standards high is one way to fight back." Meghan is a longtime NPR listener who says she has always wanted to work for us. I'm glad we're able to make that wish come true and convinced she'll be a great addition to NPR.
For most people at NPR Nishant Dahiya needs no introduction. He's spent most of his career here. Twenty years ago, he started as an assistant in our South Asia bureau in New Delhi and over the years worked his way up to producer first on the International Desk and then at Morning Edition, Editor on the Energy and Environment Team, Asia Editor and Deputy International Editor. Just over a year ago he left us to go work for Bloomberg in Asia. But perhaps realizing that Joni Mitchell was right when she wrote many years ago, "you don't know what you've got 'til it's gone," Nishant is coming back to NPR.
"Good, informative, serious journalism is at the heart of every well-functioning democracy," Nishant says which is why, "news organizations must relentlessly pursue the highest standards of accuracy and fairness, and chase the truth wherever it may take them. "
With these two new partners I am sure that the standards team will be far greater than the sum of its parts. Please join me in welcoming Meghan and welcoming back Nishant.
Tony
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