Prior to joining GMMB, Feeney worked at NPR as supervising senior editor of two of its flagship news magazines: Morning Edition from 2000 to 2004 and All Things Considered from 2004 to 2009.
[1] She later covered the Louisiana delegation, politics, and policy, including the 1988 Presidential campaign and the Republican Convention in New Orleans, as the newspaper's Washington bureau reporter.
As such, she covered the Texas delegation, Congress, the Supreme Court, the Bill Clinton presidency[3] and impeachment, presidential campaigns,[4][5] and a range of domestic and international politics.
As a senior editor at NPR,[6] Feeney edited award-winning work, including the 2008 special series “The York Project: Race & The ’08 Vote,”[7] which examined racial attitudes during the 2008 presidential race (the series won the 2009 Alfred I. duPont–Columbia University Award); coverage of the September 11 terrorist attacks and the Iraq war, which won Peabody Awards; and breaking news coverage of the Chengdu, China, earthquake, which won the Alfred I. duPont–Columbia University Award among others.
[10] In the wake Hurricane Katrina's devastation in 2005, Feeney co-founded Friends of The Times Picayune, a relief fund that raised nearly $400,000 for employees of the newspaper and their families.