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Clark and O’Leary of “Marketplace” win Gracie Awards

Two journalists from the “Marketplace” public radio show have won Gracie Awards from The Alliance for Women in Media Foundation.

The Gracie Awards honor media created by women.

Senior correspondent Krissy Clark received a Gracie for investigative program or feature in the radio category.

Clark works on the “Marketplace” wealth and poverty desk, where she helps make sense of some of the most fundamental shifts happening in the U.S. economy, including the growth of the low-wage service sector and the shrinking of middle-wage, middle-class jobs. Clark tracks the widening gap between rich and poor in the U.S. and what it means for economic mobility in America.

Lizzie O’Leary, host of “Marketplace Weekend,” received a Gracie for host of a news or nonfiction radio show.

O’Leary joined Marketplace in 2013 and spearheaded the launch of “Marketplace Weekend” — the portfolio’s newest program — in 2014.

She kicked off her journalism career at ABC News, on the Peabody Award–winning team that reported on 9/11. Prior to Marketplace, Lizzie worked for CNN, as an aviation and regulation correspondent; for NPR, as a producer and reporter; and for Bloomberg TV, tackling the global credit crisis, the housing market, and the government’s financial rescue package.

She was also first to break the news that major American automaker Chrysler would file for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection.

Here are all of the winners.

Chris Roush

Chris Roush was the dean of the School of Communications at Quinnipiac University in Hamden, Connecticut. He was previously Walter E. Hussman Sr. Distinguished Professor in business journalism at UNC-Chapel Hill. He is a former business journalist for Bloomberg News, Businessweek, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, The Tampa Tribune and the Sarasota Herald-Tribune. He is the author of the leading business reporting textbook "Show me the Money: Writing Business and Economics Stories for Mass Communication" and "Thinking Things Over," a biography of former Wall Street Journal editor Vermont Royster.