Ted Clark, NPR Biography
Supervising Senior Editor, Foreign Desk
Ted Clark is deputy supervising senior editor with NPR's Foreign Desk. From 1987 to 2001 he was one of NPR's diplomatic correspondents and covered the State Department and foreign policy issues for NPR's award-winning newsmagazines Morning Edition, All Things Considered, and Weekend Edition. Clark received a George Foster Peabody Award in 1991 for his coverage of Mozambique.
Prior to serving as diplomatic correspondent, Clark studied at the East-West Center in Hawaii and in East Asia as a Jefferson Fellow in the spring of 1987. He has served as editor (1979 to 1981) and as executive producer (1983 to 1987) for All Things Considered. From 1981 to 1983, he was NPR's White House correspondent.
Before joining NPR in 1979, Clark was Washington bureau chief for Pacifica Radio, where he worked from 1975 to 1979. Prior to that, he taught English to foreign students, was a community organizer, a hospital worker, and a VISTA (America's "Domestic Peace Corps") volunteer.
A native of Syracuse, New York, Clark has lived in Bombay, Tangiers, Amsterdam, and Pretoria, and currently resides in Washington, DC. He earned a bachelor's degree, cum laude, from Harvard University in 1968.
