Marilyn Geewax, who has covered the national economy from the Cox Newspapers Washington bureau, joined National Public Radio’s national desk on December 15 as the new senior business editor.
Cox is shutting its DC bureau.
“After 24 years with Cox, it’s weird to be leaving,” said Geewax. “But I’m really excited about NPR.”
Geewax was the national economics correspondent for Cox Newspapers’ Washington Bureau. Before coming to Washington in 1999, she worked for the Cox flagship paper, the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, first as a business reporter and then as a columnist and editorial board member.
Before coming to Atlanta, she was a business reporter with the Beacon Journal. She began her career as a general assignment reporter for the Poughkeepsie (NY) Journal.
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In 2004, Marilyn earned a master’s degree at Georgetown University, where she focused on international economic affairs. During 1994 and 1995, she studied economics and international relations at Harvard as a Nieman Fellow. She has a bachelor’s degree in journalism from The Ohio State University.
From 2001 to 2006, she taught a business journalism class as an adjunct professor at George Washington University.
Geewax grew up in the Youngstown area and now lives in Chevy Chase, MD.
And here's an email just received from Marilyn:
After seven years with the ABJ, and 24 years with Cox News, I am leaving newspapers. Yikes! Here’s what happened:
After I left Akron in 1985, I went to work for the Cox-owned Atlanta Journal-Constitution. I was a business reporter and then editorial writer there, before moving in 1999 to the Cox Washington bureau as the national economics correspondent.
This past August, it became clear the Washington bureau would soon be closing (the company announced it would sell off 10 of its 17 papers, and hinted the end-was-near for the bureau). Given the way newspapers have been shutting down bureaus, I figured I’d better look for something else.
I started talking to NPR in late August about becoming a business editor here in the Washington headquarters. These things always take a long time…and that was fortunate for me. I stayed with Cox long enough to get the buyout, and then started here on Dec. 15. I have lots to learn about radio, but it has been fun so far. My new email is mgeewax@npr.org.
Merry Christmas! Marilyn
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1 comment:
so bad for quality of NPR programs - she has no clue in what is going on with our economy. She, like Bernarke suggests us to borrow more and spend to support economy. She believes saving money is what make Great Depression bad. She needs to educate herself before errogantly providing us with her primitive economic views.
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