Experience

WYPR

• United States
• Broadcast Media Production and Distribution
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Executive Director, News

  • Nov 2019 - Present

• Executive Editor, The Daily Dose

  • Mar 2020 - Present



PRINCE GEORGES COMMUNITY TELEVISION, INC.

• United States
• Higher Education
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Anchor, Reporter, Editor

  • 2018 - Mar 2020



Southern Foodways Alliance

• Senior Editor, Gravy Podcast

  • Sep 2019 - Feb 2020



American Public Media Group

• Broadcast Media Production and Distribution
• 100 - 200 Employee

• Senior Editor, Marketplace

  • 2016 - 2018

  • Edited daily news stories, brainstormed feature ideas with education, business, and environmental correspondents.• Pitched stories at daily editorial meetings and assisted in planning long-term coverage and features.• Wrote business market analysis for Marketplace & Marketplace Morning Report, heard by an audience of more than 14.8 million unique listeners in the course of a week, on more than 800 public radio stations.



NPR

• United States
• Broadcast Media Production and Distribution
• 700 & Above Employee

• Supervising Editor, National Desk

  • 2013 - 2016

  • Managed Midwest and Mid-Atlantic daily breaking news coverage.• Engaged with desk editors, producers, news managers and reporters to decide on daily coverage of national news stories.• Managed human resources to provide adequate coverage of breaking and long-term news stories for NPR’s flagship programs.• Collaborated with member station reporters across the country.• Managed national desk staff schedule.

• Supervising Editor, Education Project

  • 2012 - 2013

  NPR has received a two-year grant from the Wallace Foundation for a project, aimed at bringing member station education reporters together, identifying and delving into key issues and topics in the field, and producing stories, series, and projects at the local, state and regional levels. And to that end, we’ve asked NPR Supervising Editor Danyell Irby to bring her skills and expertise to this assignment, building on the highly successful model of the Impact of War project that Danyell has led for the past four years. In her work with the Impact of War Project, Danyell was the first editor assigned exclusively to helping stations edit and produce stories for local air, and she has worked with more than 25 member stations who have produced countless local and national pieces and several series. The project's work has received national attention and awards such as the Edward R. Murrow Award and Associated Press Award for best local series. Many of those pieces have also aired on All Things Considered, Morning Edition, and other NPR programs.

• Supervising Editor, Impact of War

  • 2007 - 2012

  • Managed a $4 million dollar grant from the Iraq-Afghanistan Deployment Impact Fund to create a national reporting project focused on veterans and their reintegration.• Engaged member station reporters across the country in story brainstorming, writing, editing, and reporting across multiple platforms. • Traveled to NPR member stations to train and edit reporters covering the impact of war, adhering to a code of ethics and high journalistic standards.

• Senior Supervising Producer

  • Jul 1998 - Jul 2007

  • Managed 24/7-newscast unit of more than 30 anchors and production staff.• Provided editorial guidance and production quality control of 36 daily newscasts with an audience of 26 million weekly listeners.• Completed annual staff performance evaluations.• Planned and evaluated newscast department budget in accordance with NPR’s news division goals.



Prince Georges Television

• General Assignment Reporter

  • Jan 1996 - Aug 1998

  Worked as a day-side General Assignment reporter for two years while also working as an Overnight Producer at NPR.