news chief Edith Chapin to step down days after Congress votes to strip funding

Nearly two years later, Chapin still holds that role on an acting basis.

“It’s not a good time to do it, but it’s never a good time,” Chapin says of her choice to leave. “I needed to pick a date and share my decision.”

That is to stop on Oct. 1, the beginning of the next fiscal year.

Chapin led the effort to hire a new team of senior editors to review broadcast segments, digital stories and podcasts before their release — both to ensure that the stories were fair and accurate, but also that the balance of stories was proportionate to the news of the day.

“The best thing we can do is do the best work possible every day,” Chapin says now about the debate over bias. “We need to hear from all kinds of people — and that is our job. And we need to be as clear and transparent as we possibly can, and our audiences can decide how useful we are for them.”

That venture was subsidized by the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, the not-for-profit through which federal funding has been funneled to stations and the networks for decades.