[1] She is also a member of the Peabody Awards board of directors, which is presented by the Henry W. Grady College of Journalism and Mass Communication.
[4] Before joining The Boston Globe in 2023, Barnes was the chief news executive at NPR.
[6][4] In 2013, while Barnes was editor at the Star Tribune the paper won the Pulitzer Prize for local news for reporting on infant deaths at day care facilities.
[8] At NPR, Barnes succeeded Michael Oreskes after he was fired over sexual harassment allegations.
Barnes was the fourteenth person and fourth woman to head NPR's news division since the position was defined in 1979.