Nancy Barnes
American journalist and newspaper editor
Nancy Barnes (born 1961) is an American journalist and newspaper editor. She was editor of The Boston Globe from 2023 to December 2025, the first woman to lead the paper, and has since stayed at the Globe as editor at large. Before that she was chief news executive of NPR from 2018 to 2022, and earlier the editor of the Houston Chronicle and the Star Tribune. She sits on the board of the Peabody Awards, which are presented by the Henry W. Grady College of Journalism and Mass Communication.
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