Biography:

Roxanne Stone is the executive editor for RNS, helping guide daily news coverage and overseeing media partnerships with NPR, The Conversation and The Associated Press. She is also the co-host of the RNS, award-winning podcast Saved By the City.

Before coming to RNS in 2019, Stone served as editor in chief for Barna Group, a social research firm focusing on religion in America. While there she led the creation of a new product line of monographs, as well as the acquisition and development of several trade books. She previously served as editorial director for Relevant Media Group, where she oversaw the production of three magazines and daily online operations. She also regularly wrote for the magazine, including an award-winning article on faith-based relief efforts in Haiti in the wake of the 2010 earthquake. Stone was previously an online editor at Christianity Today International and a book editor and curriculum developer at Group Publishing. She received her Bachelor of Arts degree in English from Colorado State University.

Stone is based in New York City.