NPR hires FT’s Cardiff Garcia for “Planet Money”

Cardiff Garcia

Neal Carruth, NPR’s general manager of podcasting, sent out the following announcement on Thursday:

We are thrilled to announce that Cardiff Garcia will be joining NPR’s Planet Money team for a new project to be revealed soon. Cardiff’s first day will be Monday, November 13^th.
Cardiff is the US editor of FT Alphaville, the flagship economics and finance blog of the Financial Times, where for the past seven years he has written and edited stories about the US economy and financial markets. He is also the founder and host of FT Alphachat, the FT’s award-winning business and economics podcast. As a guest commentator, he has regularly appeared on media outlets such as Marketplace Radio, WNYC, CNBC, Yahoo Finance, the BBC, and others.
“I couldn’t be more excited about joining NPR’s Planet Money team, whose podcasts I’ve admired through the years for their economic insights and keen storytelling,” said Garcia. “I’m also deeply thankful to the Financial Times — and especially to my wonderful colleagues on Alphaville — for a fantastic seven years, and I feel fortunate to be able to move from one great organization to another.”
Please join me in welcoming Cardiff to NPR.

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.