Mark Memmott
Mark Memmott is NPR's supervising senior editor for Standards & Practices. In that role, he's a resource for NPR's journalists – helping them raise the right questions as they do their work and uphold the organization's standards.
As the NPR Ethics Handbook states, the Standards & Practices editor is "charged with cultivating an ethical culture throughout our news operation." This means he or she coordinates discussion on how we apply our principles and monitors our decision-making practices to ensure we're living up to our standards."
Before becoming Standards & Practices editor, Memmott was one of the hosts of NPR's "The Two-Way" news blog, which he helped to launch when he came to NPR in 2009. It focused on breaking news, analysis, and the most compelling stories being reported by NPR News and other news media.
Prior to joining NPR, Memmott worked for nearly 25 years as a reporter and editor at USA Today. He focused on a range of coverage from politics, foreign affairs, economics, and the media. He reported from places across the United States and the world, including half a dozen trips to Afghanistan in 2002-2003.
During his time at USA Today, Memmott, helped launch and lead three USAToday.com news blogs: "On Deadline," "The Oval" and "On Politics," the site's 2008 presidential campaign blog.
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In a tweet this morning, the president uses the word "bullshit" to characterize some of the "statements made in the 'Report' about me."
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When reporting about this, frame it as "evidence," not proof, that the aides to the president were "asked to lie." And attribute the evidence to Mueller's investigation.
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We are not going to repeat on the air a quote attributed to President Trump in the Mueller report in which he dropped an F-bomb.
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Today is as important as any to protecting NPR's reputation as a trusted news source. How we behave on social media is going to matter a lot.
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That supposedly clever line has been used before — many times. We do not need to do that.
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Don't simply say that all those who have crossed the southern border and been detained have been "arrested." Not everyone has been, or will be, charged with a crime.
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Be skeptical. Be very skeptical.
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We should not use gun- or violence-related clichés in our reports — no matter the subject and especially not when another mass shooting is in the news.
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The gunman in New Zealand reportedly left behind something we can simply call a "statement."
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