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He joined NPR as Senior Vice President and General Manager of Digital Media in October 2008. He oversees the network's web, podcasting and mobile operations, including the online news and music staffs.[CR-LF][CR-LF]Wilson began his journalism career at Chicago's City News Bureau where he covered cops and worked the overnight desk. He was a print reporter for 15 years, seven of them at Newsday, before he made the leap to online media in 1995.[CR-LF][CR-LF]Immediately prior to joining NPR, Wilson was executive editor of USA Today. From 2000-2005, Wilson was Vice President and Editor-in-Chief of usatoday.com. From 1995 to 2000, Wilson served in a variety of senior management positions at Congressional Quarterly. [CR-LF][CR-LF]He is past president of the Online News Association (2007), chaired the national advisory board of the Poynter Institute from 2006-2008 and served as a juror for the 2008 Pulitzer Prizes in journalism. He currently serves on the advisory board to the journalism school at the State University of New York at Stony Brook. [CR-LF][CR-LF]Wilson received a bachelor's degree in political science from the University of Chicago in 1979, specializing in African studies.

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