Jason DeRose
Jason DeRose is the Western Bureau Chief for NPR News, based at NPR West in Culver City. He edits news coverage from Member station reporters and freelancers in California, Washington, Oregon, Nevada, Alaska and Hawaii. DeRose also edits coverage of religion and LGBTQ issues for the National Desk.
Prior to this position, DeRose was the supervising editor for NPR's Economic Training Project. He worked with local member station reporters as an editor, trainer and mentor to improve business and economic coverage throughout the public radio system. Earlier, he worked as an editor on NPR's mid-day news magazine Day to Day; as a reporter and producer at NPR headquarters in Washington, D.C.; and as an editor, host, reporter and producer at member stations in Chicago, Seattle, Minneapolis and Tampa.
DeRose served as a mentor and trainer for NPR's "Next Generation Radio Project" and Chicago Public Radio's "Ear to the Ground Project" — programs that teach aspiring high school and college students public radio's unique reporting style.
Outside of public radio, DeRose worked as an oral history interviewer at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum and as a journalism trainer at the International Center for Journalists. He taught journalism ethics, radio reporting, multimedia storytelling and religion reporting at DePaul University in Chicago and at Northwestern University's Medill School of Journalism.
DeRose graduated magna cum laude, Phi Beta Kappa from St. Olaf College in Northfield, Minnesota, with majors in religion and English. He holds a master's degree from the University of Chicago Divinity School and studied at Northwestern University's Medill School of Journalism.
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Jennifer Lyell, a prominent whistleblower within the Southern Baptist Convention who brought national attention to sexual abuse within the church, has died. She suffered from a series of strokes.
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Those who've been advocating for women deacons in the Catholic Church are taking stock of the possibility under the papacy of Pope Leo XIV. -
Sunday's attack in Boulder targeted a group called Run for Their Lives, which raises awareness about the hostages held by Hamas in Gaza. Now, they're figuring out how to move on. -
Pope Leo XIV and Ukraine's President Zelenskyy spoke by phone recently, according to the Vatican. -
NPR's team wraps up their time in Rome by wrapping up the conclave that elected the first American pope, and looking ahead.
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Members of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops are digesting that one of their own is now the head of the Catholic Church.
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Friday morning, newly-elected Pope Leo XIV led his first public mass as head of the Catholic Church:
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For the first time in history, the College of Cardinals has chosen an American pope, Robert Francis Prevost, who chose the name Pope Leo XIV.
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The papal conclave is underway at the Vatican. NPR religion correspondent breaks down what's happening.
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As the papal conclave is approaching, who are the cardinal electors who will decide on the next pope? And what are their priorities?
