Ari Shapiro Named London Correspondent for NPR

RADIO ONLINE | Tuesday, August 27, 2013

NPR News correspondent Ari Shapiro, who has covered the White House since 2010, will join the international desk as the network's new London correspondent. He will begin reporting from London in January, 2014, and will also contribute to NPR's coverage and breaking news from the Middle East and North Africa. Philip Reeves, who's been based in London since 2010, is moving to become NPR's Islamabad correspondent.

"This post requires an extraordinary constellation of reporting skills. Ari has it all," said NPR News Senior VP Margaret Low Smith. "He is a first class journalist and a master storyteller. He produces some of NPR's most compelling stories and when he is on the air people sit up and listen. I can't wait to hear him in London and beyond."

Shapiro has reported for NPR since 2003, first in Miami, Boston and Atlanta, and for the next five years as a justice correspondent covering national security and counterterrorism. Since 2010 he's been at the White House, and spent 2012 on the campaign trail to lead NPR's coverage of Mitt Romney's candidacy. He also travels widely overseas in his reporting, including visits to Afghanistan and most recently Africa with President Barack Obama, and to Iraq with Attorney General Michael Mukasey.