NPR financial correspondent Maria Aspan spoke with Hannah Pajtis of The Hawk newspaper at St. Joseph’s University about her job.
Here is an excerpt:
What does your average day as a financial reporter in New York City look like?
I wake up, check my email, my Slack, my text messages, carrier pigeons. If nothing is breaking that I need to jump on immediately, I will skim all the newsletters, see what’s going on in the world, see what’s going on in the markets. Check in with my editor. I’m usually working on a longer-term story but then also may be available for whatever breaking news happens.
You work for NPR, which is one of many national news organizations. How do you distinguish your reporting from other national financial coverage?
There is one of me versus the Wall Street Journal financial team or the Bloomberg financial team. So even though a lot of my job can be breaking news, it’s also slightly more of a feature-y sensibility … The NPR audience is different from the Bloomberg audience. It’s different from the Journal audience …Their audience is coming in as a financial or business professional first.
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