Categories: OLD Media Moves

Marketplace Money host to step down

Tess Vigeland, the host of the “Marketplace Money” radio show, will step down later this year, reports Brent Lang of The Wrap.

Lang writes, “Vigeland isn’t cutting her ties entirely, however. She will continue to have a role as a contributor to “Marketplace.”

“Vigeland became host of Marketplace Money in 2006 and from her perch reported over the years on the financial crisis, President Obama’s stimulus program and the effects of the biggest economic downturn since the Depression on listeners’ pocketbooks and wallets.

“”I arrived two weeks after 9/11, and have since shared a journey with our audience through war, economic boom and bust, corporate scandals, stock market mayhem, and the Great Recession,’ Vigeland said in a statement. ‘Even through all that, we still did manage to have fun. It’s been an honor, and I will miss our listeners more than I can express.’

“Since she took over the weekly program, APM reports that the show’s audience has grown by almost 40 percent.”

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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.