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“Planet Money” hires Beras as a host/reporter

Erika Beras

NPR’s “Planet Money” has hired Erika Beras as a host and a reporter

She previously was at Marketplace covering wealth and poverty, aging and other beats for Marketplace’s programs.

She previously was a freelancer contributing radio stories to a variety of outlets. including NPR newsmagazines and Scientific American podcasts. She has written for National Geographic, NewYorker.com and other publications.

Beras also worked at WESA, the NPR station in Pittsburgh, for nearly seven years covering behavioral health stories. And she spent two years at the Miami Herald.

She has been awarded grants and fellowships from Radio Television Digital News Association, National Association of Science Writers, The International Center for Journalists, Third Coast International Audio Festival and others.

Beras has reported internationally from places as varied as The Democratic Republic of Congo and Switzerland and is a returned Peace Corps Volunteer. She is a graduate of Columbia University’s Graduate School of Journalism.

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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