David Gura Joins NPR
• Former Bloomberg and NBC News & MSNBC anchor/reporter David Gura is joining NPR, with a start date of August 2. Gura had been filling in at the NPR Business Desk for the last few months.
The news was made official in a note to the newsroom staff by Chief Business Editor Pallavi Gogoi, which reads, in part, “I am more than delighted to announce that lighted to announce that David Gura is joining NPR full-time, as a business correspondent covering Wall Street, markets and finance. David is no stranger to NPR, having launched his career with a public radio internship at North Carolina Public Radio, his hometown station WUNC/Chapel Hill, NC, on a show called The State of Things. He also interned at NPR, while still in college, and then worked as an editor and producer for Talk of the Nation.”
Gura most recently worked as a correspondent for NBC News and MSNBC, where he anchored the weekend show, Up with David Gura. Gogoi added, “Prior to NBC, David worked at Bloomberg as co-anchor of Bloomberg Surveillance, the network’s flagship morning program, and after the 2016 election, he launched Bloomberg Markets: Balance of Power, which focused on politics and policy. Before that, David was a senior reporter and backup host at the daily radio show, Marketplace.
Fun Fact: Gura fiddles! Gogoi said, “If you are among his 109,000 (!!) Twitter followers, you might have seen David play the fiddle. He got an early start in that category too, visiting festivals and fiddlers’ conventions in and around Appalachia as a kid, and went on to play in string bands in college. Lately, David hasn’t had much time to fiddle on his roof because he’s been busy traveling and reporting for NPR, while filling in for an open position at the Business Desk the last couple of months.”
In closing, Gogoi said, “David is uniquely qualified for this job, having reported on business and economics for more than a decade, making complicated financial concepts comprehensible, and telling a good story. David fills an important role at a pivotal time, and we are so thrilled to have him in our team.” [Photo courtesy of NPR & David Gura]
