“Marketplace” hires Carino to cover workplace issues

Meghan McCarty Carino

Radio program “Marketplace” has hired Meghan McCarty Carino to cover workplace issues.

She starts next week.

Carino has been covering commuting and mobility issues for KPCC in California.

She has been with KPCC since 2010, when she was hired as an associate producer for “The Madeleine Brand Show,” where she created her signature Weekend Alibi datebook feature. She went on to report, produce and edit for “Take Two Show,” KPCC’s award-winning morning newsmagazine.

Carino has contributed to public media outlets up and down California, from KQED in San Francisco and KVIE in Sacramento to KCET TV in L.A. She has reported abroad from South Africa, Germany, India, Israel and the West Bank.

Carino got her Masters from USC’s Annenberg School of Journalism and her B.A. in English from UCLA.

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.