Terry Samuel is Editor-in-Chief at USA TODAY.

Prior to that, he was Vice President & Executive Editor at NPR. In this role, he was responsible for leading all of NPR’s newsgathering teams. In 2017 Samuel joined NPR as a deputy managing editor; he was promoted in 2019 to the Managing Editor for News. In that role, he has been involved in every aspect of the daily work across all newsroom teams and has had a hand in guiding the coverage of the biggest stories of the last few years. He also spent time as the interim Executive Producer of Morning Edition during 2021.

From 2011 to 2017, he was a politics editor at The Washington Post, overseeing White House and congressional coverage, and before that he was the congressional Managing Editor at National Journal. Samuel began his career as a writing fellow at The Village Voice in New York and later was a reporter at The Roanoke Times & World News, a national correspondent at both The Philadelphia Inquirer and the St. Louis Post-Dispatch and chief congressional correspondent at US News & World Report.

A graduate of the City College of New York, Samuel is the author of the 2010 book The Upper House: A Journey Behind the Closed Doors of the United States Senate. Some his work as a political columnist was anthologized in Best American Political Writing of 2009.