Bill Chappell's Profile
Producer, NPR
United States
- My Expertise & Interests: Technology, Local News, micro stories, practical environmentalsim
- My Sites: NPR
Bio
Bill Chappell works with Morning Edition and other NPR shows, writing and producing both original Web features and pages to complement radio pieces.
Chappell was part of the team that relaunched NPR's Web site in the summer of 2009, a role that continues today. He also trains both new media and radio staff in creating compelling Web content.
Other shows he has worked with include Fresh Air, All Things Considered, Talk of the Nation and Piano Jazz with Marilyn McPartland.
Prior to joining NPR in 2003, Chappell worked on the Assignment Desk at CNN International, handling regions from Asia and Africa to Europe and Latin America.
During the intensive early months of the Iraq War, he coordinated packages and live shots out of Qatar, Israel and Australia. During the war, he set up live interviews and brought in packages to supply content to CNN's global networks. He also helped to coordinate pool coverage out of Qatar.
Taking a bit of a break later that year, Chappell became Editor-in-Chief of the Trans-Atlantic Journal, a business and lifestyle journal geared for expatriate Europeans working and living in the United States.
Chappell's prior work included producing Web pages and editing digital video for CNNSI.com, editing and producing news and feature stories at CNN.com -- an arc that began with manning the reference desk at CNN's central library in Atlanta.
Chappell's entry into national journalism came after years of writing about movies, restaurants and music for alternative weeklies. A holder of bachelor's degrees in English and History from the University of Georgia, he attended graduate school for English Literature at the University of South Carolina.
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Chappell was part of the team that relaunched NPR's Web site in the summer of 2009, a role that continues today. He also trains both new media and radio staff in creating compelling Web content.
Other shows he has worked with include Fresh Air, All Things Considered, Talk of the Nation and Piano Jazz with Marilyn McPartland.
Prior to joining NPR in 2003, Chappell worked on the Assignment Desk at CNN International, handling regions from Asia and Africa to Europe and Latin America.
During the intensive early months of the Iraq War, he coordinated packages and live shots out of Qatar, Israel and Australia. During the war, he set up live interviews and brought in packages to supply content to CNN's global networks. He also helped to coordinate pool coverage out of Qatar.
Taking a bit of a break later that year, Chappell became Editor-in-Chief of the Trans-Atlantic Journal, a business and lifestyle journal geared for expatriate Europeans working and living in the United States.
Chappell's prior work included producing Web pages and editing digital video for CNNSI.com, editing and producing news and feature stories at CNN.com -- an arc that began with manning the reference desk at CNN's central library in Atlanta.
Chappell's entry into national journalism came after years of writing about movies, restaurants and music for alternative weeklies. A holder of bachelor's degrees in English and History from the University of Georgia, he attended graduate school for English Literature at the University of South Carolina.
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