Niala Boodhoo

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Niala Boodhoo is the business reporter at WBEZ.

Niala joined WBEZ in 2010 as the Chicago reporter for Changing Gears, a multi-station project that helped document  the economic transformation of the industrial Midwest. Her stories have also aired on Marketplace, NPR's Morning Edition, All Things Considered and Weekend Edition Saturday.

Prior to joining WBEZ, Niala was a reporter with The Miami Herald, where she covered the local economy and did multimedia work in radio, video and online. She has been a business reporter since 2000 for Reuters, in London and Washington; the Associated Press in Miami and The South Florida Sun-Sentinel.

Niala is a graduate of Calvin College. She also has a M.S.J. from Northwestern University's Medill School of Journalism and a M.A. from Florida International University in Latin American and Caribbean studies.

She also represents the Chicago chapter on the national board of the Asian American Journalists Association.

You can follow Niala on Twitter @nialaboodhoo, or visit her on Facebook.

Recent stories by this author

Chicago: A 2nd-rate city?

Jun. 19, 2012
Urban analyst Aaron Renn, who lived in Chicago for 20 years, posed this provocative question in a recent article many are calling "sobering." Renn slammed Chicago; calling ourselves a "global city," he said, won't cure our deep poverty, declining population, Loop job losses or Illinois's precarious fiscal situation.

Groupon teams up with CTA on 3-day passes

Jun. 13, 2012
There have been Groupons for botox, airfare and even NBA tickets. And soon, Chicago Transit Authority passes. More than 530 million people used Chicago Transit last year. But the CTA hopes a Groupon for its three-day passes it announced Tuesday will bring in new riders.

For tomorrow's factory jobs, pack the lunch pail, calculator

Jun. 6, 2012
Obama has called manufacturing jobs part of the "blueprint" of the new economy. But those jobs require a lot of training. And to be succesful at that training – and eventually on the job – the modern manufacturing worker also needs strong math, reading and writing skills.

Joliet Caterpillar workers on strike

May. 30, 2012
The majority of the Joliet workers have rejected Caterpillar's latest proposal and remain on strike.

Asian American suffer effects of recession longest

May. 22, 2012
There’s been plenty of reporting on how the recession has been hard on employment for African Americans and Latinos. But new research shows that another group is actually doing worse—Asian Americans.

Veterans give back medals in anti-NATO protest

May. 20, 2012
One by one, dozens of former Iraq and Afghanistan military veterans, some choking back tears, especially as they named other veterans who had died, told their stories and then chucked their medals onto an empty street behind them.

Protesters arrive from East, West Coast for NATO Summit

May. 18, 2012
The bulk of NATO delegates are set to fly into O’Hare Saturday. But many out-of -town visitors are already on the streets of Chicago.On Friday, Gio Andollo was strumming his guitar and singing one of his original "Occupy" songs near a nurses' rally in the Loop.

Small businesses fuel Chicago exports abroad

May. 16, 2012
Organizers of the NATO summit say one of the reasons Chicago is playing host is to help improve the city’s global image. But plenty of local companies are already doing business internationally.

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