Steve Drummond

Steve Drummond is a senior editor at NPR in Washington, where he leads a nine-member team that covers education and learning. In more than two decades at NPR in a variety of roles, Drummond’s work has been honored with many of journalism's highest awards, including three Peabody Awards, two duPont-Columbia Awards, the Robert F. Kennedy Journalism Award and the Edward R. Murrow Award.

Drummond joined NPR in 2000 as an editor on the national desk. In 2003, he became the senior editor of "All Things Considered." He was NPR’s senior national editor from 2007 to 2014, and from 2017 to 2022 he was also the executive producer of "Code Switch," the network’s podcast and reporting team on race and identity.

He is the author of "The Watchdog: How the Truman Committee Battled Corruption and Helped Win World War II," published in 2023 by Harper Collins. In 2024, the book received the Harry S. Truman Book Award from the Truman Library Institute.

In addition to his journalism credentials, Drummond has also spent time in the classroom. In the early 1990s, he left journalism temporarily for a brief career as a middle and high school teacher.

Drummond holds a bachelor's degree and two master's degrees, in journalism and education, from the University of Michigan. In 2013, he was a Ferris visiting professor of journalism at Princeton University.