Eric Westervelt

About

SF-based Peabody, DuPont and Overseas Press Club award-winning broadcast and multimedia reporter and guest host for NPR News. http://www.npr.org/ In 2014 after a year at Stanford University as a journalism fellow I worked with a small team to help build and launch NPR's new multimedia education platform NPR Ed http://www.npr.org/sections/ed/ I currently work on-air and online covering a broad range of education news, issues, and trends from pre-K to higher education across America. I also serve as a regular guest host for NPR News magazines including Weekend Edition with Scott Simon, All Things Considered Weekend, and Here & Now. On the ed beat, I have a strong interest in issues of equity, access and the multiple ways in which technology is changing traditional pedagogy, student learning and design of schools. Prior to helping launch the education platform I worked for nearly a decade as Foreign Correspondent with NPR's International Desk including postings in Iraq, Israel-Palestinian Territories, Europe, as well as reporting from North Africa, the Horn of Africa and the Persian Gulf regions, among other places. I returned to the U.S. for a Stanford University J.S Knight Journalism Fellowship in 2012-2013. The Knight Fellowship is a one year program focused on moving journalism forward. Before going overseas I worked on NPR's National Desk as a Correspondent. I had sevearl national beats during my time on that desk including national security, the Pentagon, law enforcement and police-community relations, among other beats. A small sample of major stories covered for NPR include the wars in Iraq, Israel-Gaza and the Palestinian Territories, Afghanistan, Lebanon, as well as the "Arab spring" revolutions in Egypt, Tunisia, and Libya. I've also covered the Greek and European debt crises, the 9-11 terrorist attacks, the Columbine massacre, the 2000 presidential recount in Florida, among many other national and international stories