Peggy Girshman's Bio

A broadcast journalist for 30 years, Peggy Girshman is now the Assistant Managing Editor of NPR News. She spent her formative years working as a segment and show producer for commercial TV stations in Washington DC, for public television station WNET in New York City, and as the senior producer for several PBS series, including Scientific American Frontiers and a 26-part series on statistics. Peggy was also a senior producer at Dateline NBC.

Peggy Girshman has held several editor positions at National Public Radio -- in science, domestic news, and as Deputy Managing Editor. Her current job duties (among others) at NPR include working with independents, coordinating legal agreements, and helping to shepherd special coverage.