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Terence Samuel
Fall 2025 Sakka Family Religion and International Journalism Fellow
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Terence Samuel is a veteran journalist and news executive who is the incumbent chair of the National Press Foundation Board of Directors. During the 2025-2026 academic year he was the Sakka Family Religion and International Journalism Fellow at Georgetown University. He formerly served as editor in chief of USA TODAY, vice president and executive editor of NPR, and Washington editor of the Washington Post. He is the author of The Upper House: A Journey Behind the Closed Doors of the United States Senate (Palgrave-MacMillan, 2010) and his work was anthologized in Best American Political Writing of 2009 (public affairs). He has held research fellowships at the Kennedy School at Harvard University, the Hoover Institution at Stanford University, and at the Sine Institute of Policy & Politics at American University. In fall 2021, he was Ferris Professor of Journalism at Princeton University. He is a graduate of the City College of New York.