Uri Berliner
As Senior Business Editor at NPR, Uri Berliner edits and reports on economics, technology and finance. He provides analysis, context and clarity to breaking news and complex issues.
Berliner helped to build Planet Money, one of the most popular podcasts in the country.
Berliner's work at NPR has been recognized with a Peabody Award, a Loeb Award, Edward R. Murrow Award, a Society of Professional Journalists New America Award, and has been twice honored by the RTDNA. He was the recipient of a Nieman Fellowship at Harvard University. A New Yorker, he was educated at Sarah Lawrence College and Columbia University.
Berliner joined NPR after more than a decade as a print newspaper reporter in California where he covered scams, gangs, military issues, and the border. As a newspaper reporter, his feature writing and investigative reporting earned numerous awards. He started his journalism career at the East Hampton (N.Y) Star.
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As many as 500 million guests who made reservations at Marriott's Starwood properties around the world may have had their information compromised, the company announced on Friday.
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Two couples sheltered Uri Berliner's family when the Nazis came to power. One thrived; the other paid a terrible price. -
More than two weeks ago, Tesla's Elon Musk said he was considering taking his company private. Now Musk and the company's board say Tesla will remain publicly owned.
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The Labor Department on Friday says that the economy added 157,000 jobs in July, pushing down the unemployment rate to 3.9 percent. Also, China announces plans to impose retaliatory trade tariffs.
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In a wide-ranging interview with CNBC, President Trump threatened to accelerate and expand tariffs on all goods that come from China. -
Nearly 3 out of 10 online shoppers have taken the plunge to buy an item that costs $1,000 or more. Men are twice as likely as women to buy a big ticket item online, according to a new NPR/Marist poll. -
Russia and Saudi Arabia have been longtime adversaries over geopolitics and military operations in the Middle East. Now, they've formed a surprising bond that is helping boost oil and gasoline prices. -
Dick's Sporting Goods will stop selling assault-style firearms and won't sell guns to people under 21, the company's CEO said Wednesday. The company also issued a plea for "common sense gun reform."
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The drop on the Dow Jones Industrial Average on Monday was 1,175 points. Put another way, blue-chip stocks lost about 4.6 percent of their value in one day. Foreign markets followed Wall Street.
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Monday's plunge, 1,175 points as measured on the Dow Jones Industrial Average, has affected global markets. After the Dow dropped, Japan's Nikkei and Hong Kong's Hang Seng dipped by about 5 percent.
