Terence Samuel, a prime news govt at National Public Radio, would be the subsequent editor in chief of USA Today.

Gannett, the nation’s largest newspaper chain and the writer of USA Today, made the announcement on Friday. Mr. Samuel, who will begin on July 10, fills a place vacated in May by Nicole Carroll, who had led USA Today for 5 years.

Mr. Samuel, 61, is a vice chairman and govt editor at NPR, the place he oversees all news gathering on the community. Before becoming a member of NPR in 2017, he was a deputy nationwide political editor at The Washington Post, and he has additionally labored at The Root, The Philadelphia Inquirer and U.S. News & World Report.

Mr. Samuel stated in a press release that he was honored to assist lead USA Today, which made its debut in 1982, “into a digital future.”

“USA Today has a distinctive and groundbreaking history in American journalism and is uniquely positioned to inform the conversations and tell the stories that impact American life,” he stated.

Kristin Roberts, Gannett’s chief content material officer, stated Mr. Samuel would “accelerate our transformation of USA Today, embracing our role and our roots as America’s newspaper with the core mission of being nothing less than essential to the readers, viewers and listeners we serve nationwide.”

In an e-mail to NPR employees on Friday, Edith Chapin, the interim senior vice chairman for news, stated the community would conduct a nationwide search to seek out his substitute.

Mr. Samuel joins Gannett at a dangerous time. The firm, struggling beneath a debt burden from its 2019 merger with GateHouse Media, has had a number of rounds of layoffs lately. Its inventory worth has plummeted practically 70 p.c for the reason that merger.

Hundreds of journalists from about two dozen Gannett newsrooms plan to stroll off the job on Monday throughout the firm’s annual shareholder assembly in protest over its govt management.