NPR's Geewax to add teaching at UGA

Former BJ reporter Marilyn Geewax, National Public Radio senior business editor, also will teach at the University of Georgia’s Grady College of Journalism and Mass Communication in spring 2018.

Marilyn Geewax

 

She will be an Industry Fellow with the James M. Cox Jr. Institute for Journalism Innovation, Management and Leadership.

One-time Ohio governor, Congressman and the 1920 Democratic nominee for President James Middleton Cox founded Cox newspapers, beginning with the Dayton Daily News.

Cox’s vice presidential running mate was assistant Secretary of the Navy and future President Franklin Delano Roosevelt.

The Democratic ticket lost by a landslide to another Ohioan, Republican Warren G. Harding, he of the Teapot Dome scandal, and vice presidential nominee Calvin Coolidge, who became President when Harding died while occupying the Oval Office.

So everyone on both tickets became President except Cox.

Marilyn wrote:

“Honored to join UGA Grady students in the Spring. I’ll be looking for future talent for NPR. Love working with tomorrow’s great journalists.”

Grady, founded in 1915, has more than 1,500 students.

Marilyn joined NPR in 2008 after 23 years with Cox Newspapers. She took a Cox buyout after Cox abandoned its Washington bureau, then joined NPR 10 days later.

She went from Cox’s flagship paper, the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, where she was a columnist and editorial board member, to national economics correspondent for Cox’s Washington Bureau.

Marilyn went south to Atlanta after seven years at Ol’ Blue Walls (1985-92). She came to the BJ from the Poughkeepsie, New York Journal.

Marilyn’s parents live in Campbell, just east of Youngstown, and her younger brother and his wife live in Reminderville, at the northeast tip of Summit County.