Eva Rodriguez

Eva Rodriguez is Vice President and Executive Editor at NPR. In this role, she oversees NPR's global newsgathering operation including reporters based internationally, across the country and in Washington, D.C. She serves as the senior editorial leader for all of NPR's platforms, news desks and beats, including desk editors, reporters, correspondents and associated production staff.

Before coming to NPR in 2023, Rodriguez was Editor in Chief at The Fuller Project, a global nonprofit newsroom focusing on coverage of the interconnected issues affecting women. Before that she spent 14 years at The Washington Post in various roles, including as the deputy foreign editor, overseeing coverage of Ukraine and Afghanistan, as well as the global Covid-19 pandemic and other important international stories. Rodriguez played a leading role directing teams that won consecutive Overseas Press Club Awards in 2021 for "Losing Control," a series about violence and corruption in Mexico, and 2022 for the "Africa's Rising Cities" multimedia storytelling project. Prior to The Washington Post, Rodriguez was Legal Affairs and Congress editor for The New York Times and was a Justice Department reporter for The Wall Street Journal. She started her career at the Miami Review, where her work was recognized as a finalist for the Gerald Loeb Award. Rodriguez has edited and reported extensively on global affairs, politics, business, the environment, arts and culture, legal affairs and courts.