Bill Chappell

Bill Chappell is a producer involved with the redesign and improvement of NPR's Web site. In addition, he works with Morning Edition and other NPR shows, producing Web features that complement and package their radio pieces. Other shows he has worked with include Fresh Air, All Things Considered, Talk of the Nation and Piano Jazz with Marilyn McPartland.

Prior to joining NPR in 2003, Chappell worked on the Assignment Desk at CNN International, handling areas as varied as Africa, Europe, Asia and Latin America.

During the intensive media coverage of the early months of the Iraq War, he produced stories out of Israel and Australia, among other places. During the war, he set up live interviews and brought in packages to supply content to CNN's 4 main networks. He also helped to coordinate pool coverage out of Qatar.

Taking a bit of a break later that year, Chappell became Editor-in-Chief of the Trans-Atlantic Journal, a business and lifestyle journal geared for expatriate Europeans working and living in the United States.

Before that, Chappell's other jobs included producing Web pages and editing digital video for CNNSI.com, editing and producing news and feature stories at CNN.com, and manning the reference desk at CNN's central library in Atlanta.

Bill's entry into national journalism came after years of writing about movies, restaurants and music for alternative weeklies. A holder of bachelor's degrees in English and History from the University of Georgia, he attended graduate school for English Literature at the University of South Carolina.