Susan Feeney joined GMMB as senior counselor. Since 2000, she has been senior supervising editor for NPR’s influential flagship programs, All Things Considered and Morning Edition. Along with overseeing the development of top-quality on-air content, she helped usher both programs and their staffs into the digital age. NPR and npr.org have posted record audience growth during the past decade, reaching 27 million listeners and achieving 12 million page views each month.
Feeney brings 25 years of experience as an award-winning journalist, dynamic manager and strategic thinker. She was executive producer of NPR’s acclaimed 2008 presidential candidate debate. Prior to working in radio news, she was a correspondent covering the White House, national politics and Washington, D.C. news for The Dallas Morning News and The Times-Picayune of New Orleans.
Feeney also founded The Friends of the Times-Picayune, a national non-profit emergency relief fund for families of the newspaper’s staff displaced by Hurricane Katrina. She raised nearly $400,000 and, through greater awareness and coalitional building, generated significant services and support for nearly 200 families.
Feeney was a Woodrow Wilson Visiting Fellow and also is a frequent university lecturer. She also provided on-air media commentary on a range of public policy and current affairs topics.