Obed Manuel
Digital Editor, Morning Edition
Obed Manuel works as a digital editor for Morning Edition. He edits and writes digital articles, both original and those based on broadcast stories.
Prior to joining NPR, he worked as an audience editor at Colorado Public Radio and as editor of Denverite, a digital-first daily news site focused on the Denver metro. While there, he contributed to multiple award-winning efforts, including a national award for enterprise reporting from the Public Media Journalists Association about Colorado’s affordable housing crisis.
Manuel has also worked as a reporter for The Dallas Morning News, covering immigration policy, the city’s Hispanic/Latinx population, and daily city news. While there, he broke the story of Francisco Galicia, a U.S. citizen who was detained in a border facility for nearly a month in squalid conditions, which garnered national and international attention and led to Galicia’s release.
He has written for the Dallas Observer, Central Track, Latina Lista and The Texas Observer. He was also part of the inaugural class of Report for America, a nonprofit effort aimed at bolstering local news.
Born in Mexico, Manuel grew up in Oak Cliff, a neighborhood of Dallas, TX. He graduated from the Mayborn School of Journalism at the University of North Texas.
