Sarah Ashworth Joins NHPR as News Director

NHPR is thrilled to announce the addition of Sarah Ashworth to its award-winning news team. Sarah joins NHPR from Minnesota Public Radio, where she directed and produced Morning Edition. Prior to working at MPR, she was a producer for The Diane Rehm Show. She spent three years as a reporter and producer at Vermont Public Radio, working on the stations one-hour talk program, Vermont Edition. Previously, she worked as news director at KBIA radio in Columbia, Missouri. She also served as an assistant professor of journalism at the University of Missouri-Columbia, where she helped launch the schools public radio program. During that time, she won a national Edward R. Murrow award for a radio documentary that examined earthquake preparedness along the New Madrid Fault Line. John Forcucci , NHPRs Vice President for News and Digital Media, says, Sarah brings a range of skills and experience to NHPR, as well as a solid knowledge of New England and a keen journalistic sensibility. NHPR