NPR hires Gogoi as its business editor

NPR News executive editor Edith Chapin shared the following with the staff on Tuesday morning:

I am extremely pleased to introduce Pallavi Gogoi as NPR’s new Chief Business Editor and head of the Business Desk. Pallavi brings twenty years of outstanding business reporting and editing experience to her new role.

She is currently a Senior Editor at CNN, where she oversees the team reporting on business news, markets and the economy. Each day, Pallavi helps set the agenda on business coverage for CNN Money and plays a key role in the strategy and planning of the CNNMoney digital traffic growth and social engagement. While a National Business writer at the AP she wrote a series on mortgage robo-signing that sparked a Senate hearing. She was at USA Today reporting on banking during the peak of the financial crisis and bank bailouts. Earlier in her career she was at Business Week and wrote high impact stories that led to changes at Walmart, Edelman and The Washington Post.

Pallavi is known as an editor and manager who brings out the best in the reporters she works with and who has a great nose for where the story is going next and enterpfrise reporting that pulls relevant threads together to add up to something more meaningful. Several people cited her as a terrific coach based on her own extensive reporting experience.

Pallavi has both bachelor’s and master’s degrees in English Literature from Delhi University and is fluent in five languages.

She starts July 10 and will spend much of her first month here in Washington- before basing herself at the bureau in New York — getting to know NPR and all members of the business desk as well as the interconnected parts of the newsroom.

Gogoi was a correspondent in BusinessWeek’s Chicago bureau. Prior to BusinessWeek, she covered finance for Dow Jones News, often writing for The Wall Street Journal