Pallavi Gogoi, chief business editor at NPR, has been appointed to the board of governors of the Society for Advancing Business Editing and Writing (SABEW). Gogoi leads the network’s coverage of the most essential financial, economic, technology and media stories of the day.
Gogoi has been appointed to the board seat previously occupied by Marilyn Geewax, former senior business editor for NPR. Geewax is teaching this semester in Beijing at Tsinghua University’s Global Business Journalism Program.
“I have always believed strongly in my mission as a journalist, in the pursuit of truth and in strengthening the fabric of democracy,” said Gogoi. “There is no better way to help the cause than to give back. I am thrilled to be joining the board of SABEW, whose work in journalism couldn’t be more important at this time in history.”
“We’re very pleased that Pallavi is joining the SABEW board, bringing her own unique and special talents and experiences to our organization. Her employer, NPR, is highly respected for the quality of its excellent work over many decades,” said Mark Hamrick, SABEW president and Bankrate.com senior economic analyst and Washington bureau chief.
Under Gogoi’s leadership, NPR’s business reporters have cast a spotlight on current events shaping the country and society, including the intense scrutiny on Silicon Valley and the fight for and against free speech, the messaging from the White House and what that means for democracy, the #MeToo movement and its effect on working Americans and the emotional and financial toll on families at the center of the opioid crisis.
Her interest in examining the tectonic shifts taking place in the American workforce led her to spearhead a poll asking basic questions about people’s working life. The results were startling — they showed that while jobs are plentiful, they are increasingly unstable for many Americans who receive fewer benefits, work with less permanency and earn uneven pay from month to month. A week-long NPR series examined the rise of the contract workforce in America.
Before joining NPR in 2017, Gogoi was a senior editor at CNN Money, where she oversaw a team covering business news, markets and the economy. Prior to that, she was a national business correspondent at The Associated Press, where her work on mortgage robo-signing was the subject of a Senate hearing. At USA Today, she covered the financial crisis and bank bailouts. At Business Week, she wrote high impact stories that led to changes at Walmart, Edelman and The Washington Post.
Gogoi grew up in Shillong, a small town nestled in the mountains of Northeast India. She graduated from Delhi University, with a master’s degree in English literature from Hindu College and a bachelor’s degree from SGTB Khalsa College. She is fluent in five languages.
SABEW is the world’s largest association dedicated to business and financial journalism. For more information, contact Kathleen Graham, SABEW executive director, at kgraham@sabew.org. Twitter: @sabew.
