Robert Little (journalist)

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][2] 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]

Little lives in Towson, Maryland with his wife, Ann; the couple has five children.[1][2]