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WNYC radio in New York starts weekly radio biz show

A New York radio station, WNYC, is starting a weekly news show called “Money Talking” that will focus on the major business and economics news of the day.

Jeff Greenfield, the host of the show, writes, “Rather than the latest headline about the deficit fight, we’ll ask: Is a balanced budget desirable, or even possible? Rather than rehash the latest insider trading case, we ask: Should the government be using its resources to prosecute this at all? Rather than the latest case of CEO misbehavior, we’ll ask: Just how badly can you behave before you get fired?

“What we’re looking to do, at root, is to ask — and answer — the questions that go to the heart of the matter. Take our first episode: are student loans — now hitting the $1 trillion mark — the next bubble? And could that inflict as much damage as the housing meltdown?

“We’ll do this it with some highly high-profile names in business journalism; folks like Joe Nocera of the New York Times; Rana Foroohar of TIME Magazine. And on this page, I’ll be offering thoughts on the issues we’ve raised.”

Read more here. Greenfield is currently the host of the PBS show “Need to Know.”

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.