Susan Feeney
Senior Editor for Planning, All Things Considered
Susan Feeney is Senior Editor for Planning at All Things Considered, NPR's longest-running news magazine. She oversees the show's news planning and projects ranging from daily breaking news and in-depth policy analysis, to long-form conversations about race and the 2008 presidential race.
Prior to joining All Things Considered in November 2004, she was senior editor of NPR's other flagship show, Morning Edition. There she oversaw the show's coverage of the 2000 election and recount, as well as 9-11 and the start of the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq.
At Morning Edition, she oversaw the show's coverage of the 2000 election and recount, as well as 9-11 and the start of the war in Afghanistan and Iraq.
Feeney has covered six presidential elections from 1988 to 2008, four as a reporter and two as an editor. She was executive producer of NPR's radio-only presidential debates for the 2008 and 2004 elections.
Before joining NPR in April 2000, Feeney was national political reporter and White House correspondent for the Dallas Morning News. She covered presidential and congressional elections and politics in Washington and across the country. In addition, she has reported on all facets of the presidency, including international affairs, defense, tax and social policy and the impeachment of Bill Clinton.
When she joined the Dallas News in May 1989, she covered the U.S. Congress and Texas issues in Washington, including in Congress, the federal agencies and the Supreme Court.
At the News, her series, "Hidden Danger: The Debate Over Land Mines'' won numerous awards for investigative reporting. An earlier investigative series on a little-known twist on voting rights injustice also won multiple reporting prizes.
From 1983 to 1989, she covered Washington — and earlier City Hall and politics — for The Times-Picayune in New Orleans.
She founded Friends of the Times-Picayune (www.friendsofthetimespicayune.com), a relief fund for families at the newspaper hit-hard by Katrina.
A native of Pittsburgh, Pa., she lives in Washington, D.C., with her husband Steve Hirsh and two sons.
