“Morning Edition” host David Greene announced that he is leaving National Public Radio at the end of the year. NPR will launch a national search for Greene’s successor. “Being part of the Morning Edition family has been a lesson in collaboration and collegiality you find nowhere else in the business,” Greene said in a letter to staff members.
Greene began hosting Morning Edition eight years ago. Prior to that, he served as NPR’s correspondent in Moscow covering the region from Ukraine and the Baltics east to Siberia.
Greene received the 2011 Daniel Schorr Journalism Prize from WBUR and Boston University for coverage of a series of anti-government protests, uprisings, and armed rebellions that spread across much of the Arab world
“We’ll miss David and the boundless joy he brings to the work every day – and because we’re as pleased and excited as he is to see him embark on a new chapter in life,” VP for News Programming Sarah Gilbert.
There’s no word on what Greene’s next endeavor will be.
