NPR Foreign Desk Adds Leila Fadel, Correspondents

RADIO ONLINE | Friday, June 1, 2012 | 6:08pm CT

NPR News has announced several new correspondent hires and appointments for its Foreign Desk. The moves deepen NPR's international news reporting, under the new leadership of Senior Foreign Editor Edith Chapin (pictured). She'll oversee correspondents based in 17 bureaus around the world, and a team of editors and reporters in Washington, DC.

Leila Fadel, currently the Washington Post bureau chief in Cairo, will join NPR in July. Fadel is a known voice from North Africa, and in the past year has covered the wave of revolts and their aftermaths in Syria, Libya, Egypt and Tunisia. She also covered the Iraq War for nearly five years.

Joining NPR as its East Africa correspondent based in Nairobi is Gregory Warner. He will begin in Nairobi in December. During the interim, Austin-based correspondent John Burnett will take an extended assignment in Africa. Warner is a senior reporter for Marketplace from American Public Media, where he currently covers the economics and business of health care. He previously reported from Afghanistan, Pakistan and Congo.

NPR's Corey Flintoff will become the new Moscow correspondent, starting in July. In recent years, Flintoff has covered the revolutions in Egypt and Libya, the war in Afghanistan, and before that, the Iraq War. He's most recently been a correspondent for Digital News.