Steve Drummond

Steve Drummond is the Senior National Editor for NPR News. He oversees the network's national news coverage and a team of more than 80 reporters, producers and editors in Washington and 19 domestic bureaus, including coverage of business and economics, national security, and the arts.

Drummond joined NPR as the education editor in August 2000. In 2003 and early 2004, he was the senior editor of All Things Considered, returning to the national desk to edit coverage of poverty and welfare, education, religion, and crime and punishment. He moved into his current position in December 2007.

Drummond was part of the teams of reporters and editors in NPR's critically-acclaimed coverage of the 9/11 attacks, Hurricane Katrina and its aftermath and the historic 2008 election. In 2004, he edited an award-winning series on the 50th anniversary of the Supreme Court's decision in Brown vs. Board of Education. In 2007 he worked with NPR's Laura Sullivan and Amy Walters on a six-month investigation into sexual assault of Native American women that won a duPont-Columbia Award. In 2008, he edited a series by Sullivan, "36 Years of Solitary: Murder, Death and Justice on Angola," that won a Peabody Award, a Robert F. Kennedy Journalism Award and an Investigative Reporters and Editors award. He is also a recipient of Edward R. Murrow and Unity awards from the Radio-Television News Directors Association.

Prior to joining NPR, he spent six years as an editor at Education Week. He has been a reporter with The Tampa Tribune and The St. Petersburg Times in Florida and with the Associated Press in Detroit. He has also written for The Detroit News, The Detroit Free Press, The New York Times, Teacher magazine and other publications.

In the early 1990s, Drummond left journalism temporarily for an even lower-paying and harder-working profession, spending a year as a middle and high school teacher. He grew up in the Detroit suburbs and holds a bachelor's degree, and master's degrees in journalism and education, from the University of Michigan. He lives in Maryland with his wife, Lori, and daughter.