Robert Little is an American journalist who is the senior investigations editor for NPR. He previously served as investigations and enterprise editor and earlier, a reporter, for The Baltimore Sun.[1]
Little is a Baltimore native who first worked for the Sun in 1979 as a 13-year-old newspaper delivery boy.[1] He earned his B.S. in mass communication from Towson State University in 1991 and a M.S. in journalism from the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism.[1] [2] [3] [4]
Little began his reporting career at the Carroll County Times in Westminster, Maryland, where he was a political reporter, before moving to the Virginian-Pilot in Norfolk, Virginia in 1993, where he served as state capital correspondent in Richmond.[1] [2] [4] Little joining the Sun in 1998 as a business reporter covering transportation.[1] [4]
He reported on the defense industry and the Pentagon before becoming national correspondent for the Sun.[1] [4] Little has covered the September 11 attacks, the funeral of Pope John Paul II, the London subway bombings, Hurricane Katrina, Baghdad during the Iraq War, and the 2010 Haiti earthquake.[1] Little's reporting on shortages of medical supplies for troops fighting in Iraq "led to immediate policy changes and corrective measures by the U.S. Army."[4]
Little won a 2006 George Polk Award.[1] [2] Little is a past finalist for a Gerald Loeb Award.[4]
In 2013, he joined NPR as the network's senior investigations editor.[5] In 2021, Little won the Pulitzer Prize for Audio Reporting for his work on the No Compromise podcast with NPR colleagues Lisa Hagen, Chris Haxel, and Graham Smith.[6]
Little lives in Towson, Maryland with his wife, Ann; the couple has five children.[1] [2]
Little co-hosted NPR's White Lies podcast.[7] [8] [9]