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Marketplace senior biz correspondent Moon leaving show

“Marketplace” senior business correspondent Bob Moon is leaving the American Public Media show after his position was eliminated in a budget-cutting move.

Ben Mook of Current.org writes, “Moon, a 12-year veteran with the public radio series covering business and finance news, has served as an occasional fill-in host for Marketplace, Marketplace Morning Report and Marketplace Money. Before joining the Los Angeles-based production in 2000, Moon covered international news for The Associated Press for 20 years; he also served as White House correspondent for the wire service’s broadcast division.

“In the Feb. 1 memo announcing Moon’s departure,  Marketplace’s executive producer blames ‘budget issues’ that have carried over from 2012 for the layoff.

“‘I was recently informed that some of the budget issues we faced last fiscal year have continued and that I would need to reevaluate all positions and determine which were essential as we move forward,’ wrote Deborah Clark, e.p.

“Minnesota-based APM laid-off 10 employees in a strategic reorganization announced last summer. Those layoffs extended across the public media organization and into Marketplace’s news operation in Washington, D.C., where John Dimsdale, who was bureau chief, was let go.

“Eliminating Moon’s position will reduce the show’s staffing level, Clark said, but Marketplace will retain the recently created position of back-up host, which has not been filled.”

Read more here.

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.

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