Banerjee briefed National Press Foundation fellows in October 2021: Covering COP.

Neela Banerjee is NPR’s first-ever Supervising Climate Editor, tasked with working across the newsroom to lead the network’s broad climate coverage.

Before starting at NPR in April 2020, Neela spent five years as a senior correspondent at InsideClimate News, where she led the team that revealed how Exxon had conducted its own ambitious climate research as far back as the mid-1970s. The Exxon project spurred public interest lawsuits, won more than a dozen national journalism awards and was a finalist for the 2016 Pulitzer Prize for Public Service Reporting.

Before ICN, Neela was the energy and environment reporter in the Los Angeles Times’ Washington DC bureau. Prior to that, she was a reporter for The New York Times and had beats as diverse as global energy, the Iraq war and faith in America. She began her journalism career at The Wall Street Journal, where she served mostly as a Russia correspondent.

Neela grew up all over the U.S., but mostly in southeast Louisiana, and is a graduate of Yale University.