National Public Radio has hired Michael Oreskes, veteran of Associated Press and the New York Times, as news chief.
He will take the senior VP for news and editorial director post when he joins NPR in Washington in late April.
The 60-year Oreskes currently is VP/senior managing editor at the AP, which he joined in 2008.
In his 27-year stint at the New York Times Co., he served as executive editor at the International Herald Tribune and Washington bureau chief for the NYT.
He held various reporting jobs at the paper and helped manage digital content and partnerships for televion.
Oreskes began his career at the New York Daily News.
Margaret Low Smith, who was NPR's news chief, exited last summer. All Things Considered Executive Producer Christopher Turpin has been serving as NPR's top news executive. He'll become VP-news under Oreskes.
NPR CEO Jarl Mohn said journalism heavyweight Oreskes got the job to highlight "the central role that news coverage should play in defining" the network's identity.
Oreskes considers NPR "one of the handful of news outlets that have proved themselves to be indispensible to the nation."
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