National Public Radio finance correspondent Maria Aspan is among the layoffs.
“I spent the past two years at NPR covering Wall Street, the economy, and financial and corporate power — and how it affects all of us,” she wrote on LinkedIn. “It’s a crucial time for this coverage, and I’m incredibly proud of my work for NPR.”
Aspan joined NPR two years ago from Fortune magazine, where she was a senior features writer. In her time at Fortune, she broke news and won numerous awards for her work, covering systemic inequities across startups and public companies, executive compensation, the business of health care, sexual harassment on Wall Street, and billionaire philanthropy. She’s interviewed top CEOs for the magazine and at Fortune’s Most Powerful Women Summit and other live events.
Aspan has been an editor and financial reporter for most of her career, having covered banking and the financial crisis for American Banker and Reuters. She also oversaw coverage of venture capital and the startup financial ecosystem for Inc. magazine.
She has won numerous awards for her coverage, including SPJ’s Sigma Delta Chi award for public service in magazine journalism and also honors from SABEW, NIHCM, NYSSPCA, Deadline Club, Silurians Press Club, and National Headliner Awards. Her work has led to FDA action against Allergan and led billionaire philanthropist MacKenzie Scott to make her secretive donation process more accessible, by allowing nonprofits to formally apply for her grants.
She graduated from Georgetown’s School of Foreign Service.
