David Beard

David Beard is the former executive editor of PRI.org.

David Beard is the former executive editor of PRI.org. He has worked both in the trenches as a foreign correspondent and editor and as a strategist leading digital change and audience growth for major news organizations. He started his journalism career as a foreign reporter in Latin America and an international editor for AP and the Boston Globe. He then jumped into multimedia storytelling and inventing new ways to engage people on the web, first as editor of Boston.com and later as deputy editor-in-chief of National Journal. As digital content director for the Washington Post, David rapidly built new audience and coverage for the Post’s site through newsletters, blogs, videos and graphic storytelling projects. David also believes in collaboration, with the audience and with other news organizations. He has forged partnerships with newsrooms that include National Geographic, Roll Call, Smithsonian, The New York Times and The Atlantic.He is a former digital journalism instructor at the Harvard Extension School, a scholar for the Inter American Press Association and a graduate of Northwestern University's Medill School of Journalism.Beard left PRI in 2016.

PRI and GlobalPost are now one site and one team

July 29, 2016Culture

PRI.org is growing. Please give a big welcome to GlobalPost, whose award-winning work from around the world is joining our news report.

Witness: ‘I could see people lying on the ground’

July 22, 2016Conflict

Three law enforcement officers killed in Baton Rouge shooting

July 17, 2016Conflict

For young Turks, a coup is something new

July 15, 2016Conflict

French police forces and forensic officers stand next to a truck

Truck plows into Bastille Day crowd in Nice; officials report at least 84 dead

July 14, 2016Conflict

People hold banners during a March for Europe demonstration against Britain's decision to leave the European Union, in central London. Britain voted to leave the European Union in the EU Brexit referendum.

Brexit winners and losers: Britain’s next prime minister will be a woman

July 4, 2016Global Politics

The next UK prime minister will be a woman after Theresa May and Andrea Leadsom have made the Conservative party shortlist. That follows a resignation, a drop out and the general implosion of British leadership after the nation’s vote to leave the European Union.

Traders work on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange before the opening bell, June 24, 2016.

Explainer: The Brexit aftermath, in charts

June 24, 2016Economics

A visual guide to geographic and demographic divisions in Britain’s vote against the European Union — and how that decision has roiled the world’s markets.

Extraordinary House sit-in went on despite shutdown of cameras

June 23, 2016Conflict

House Democrats had vowed not to go on break until they could vote on a gun bill. They continued for a while, even after the House voted to break until July 5, and pledged more protest when Congress resumed.

As time draws short, candidates search for authenticity in New Hampshire

February 7, 2016Conflict

Hillary Clinton struggling to pay off loans on a $14,000 a year job. Ted Cruz going into debt to rescue his nephew from his drug-addled half-sister. As Tuesday draws near, candidates are using personal stories to try to set them apart in New Hampshire’s presidential primary.

Iran frees detained Americans as part of broader US-Iran deal

January 16, 2016Justice

Those freed included Washington Post reporter Jason Rezaian, who had been held for 544 days on trumped-up charges. Iran’s foreign minister, Javad Zarif, tweeted: “It’s now time for all — especially Muslim nations — to join hands and rid the world of violent extremism. Iran is ready.”